The Buffalo Bill Combination theatrical troupe played Jamestown, New York, on March 14, 1878. A century and a quarter later, bricks began crumbling off a building on Pine Street in that […]
Glasgow welcomes Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, August 1904
The numbers may not have rivaled those of the Beatles in Shea Stadium in 1965, or Taylor Swift in Times Square last New Year’s Eve. But the crowds at each […]
Puck magazine: “Wit larded with malice”
From the English Punch magazine of the mid-1800s, to the Harvard Lampoon, Mad magazine, New Yorker, and the Web’s Onion, satire has served the dual purposes of humor and making […]
Judge Roy Bean-Law West of the Pecos
I hate to admit it, but I never believed that Judge Roy Bean was a real person. Old westerns are favorite TV fare at our house, so I’ve managed to […]
Frank Tenney Johnson: a fatal kiss
“Frank Tenney Johnson was at the apex of his career as a painter of America’s West in December 1938 when he and his wife accepted an invitation to have dinner […]
Buffalo Bill’s spurs torched—on purpose.
Sometime around 1959, Cody, Wyoming’s, iconic statue sustained a mishap due to vandals. Evidently, some nefarious ne’er-do-wells nabbed the spurs off Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s (1875 – 1942) monumental sculpture […]
