Materials are arranged in the order received
TRI.2016.0070: Purchased, 2016 December; TRI.2016.0071: Purchased, 2016 December
[identification of item], Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Collection, SPEC.TRI.WWC, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University
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This collection is unprocessed. Finding aid written by: Courtney Bishop, 2017 September
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846-1917) was a guide, scout, frontiersman, showman, actor, entrepreneur, town founder, and American icon. He opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1883, where during the first season his partner was a dentist and exhibition shooter, Dr. W.F. Carver. The show eventually went bankrupt in 1913. Wild West Shows were outdoor extravaganzas that came out of the Great Plains during the late 19th and early 20th century that displayed events of the Old West, beginning in 1883 with Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show did reenactments of frontier events and displays of western outdoors skills, such as marksmanship.
The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Collection contains a program from the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show on “Dr. Wm. F. Carver Champion Shot of the World” circa 1888 and postcards dated 1905.