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 city. The E.E. Austin Construction crew arrived on the scene in June 2002 to remove the bricks. They quickly discovered “faces looking back at them” and […]
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 performance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Glasgow, Scotland, July 31 – August 6, 1904, were huge. Following Buffalo Bill’s run in Glasgow, the Glasgow […]
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 a point. Poking fun at public policy, society, culture, or politicians is downright amusing—especially from those who do it well. One of the most successful […]
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 see the judge portrayed by actors Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, and Paul Newman. I decided it was time to “google” the judge, and sure enough, […]
“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 and attend a sports event with some friends,” Gene Ball, Buffalo Bill Center of the West‘s public relations director wrote in the fall 1979 Center newsletter. “In […]
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 – 1942). Buffalo Bill – The Scout, 1924. Bronze. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA. Gift of the artist. 3.58 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 […]