Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2018 Lies and Legends of Montana Bill, Part 1 By Tom F. Cunningham Wild West Echoes in Glasgow Of all the myriad objects in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, by no means the most valuable—but certainly amongst the most perplexing—is an undated newspaper cutting. […]
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 […]
Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2010 Scots in Wyoming By Jeremy Johnston and Chris Dixon Dol siar . . . heading west . . . In the songs of the Gaelic bards of old, this idea occurs time and again, often as an image of coming home. If the Viking sagas are to be […]