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Buffalo Bill’s wild west : Sells Floto circus

Description: Image of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody riding a white horse.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1926
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000082
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Bailey, Bill. (1887-1961.); Biggerstaff, Bill. (-1975.); Butler, Roland, (1886-1955.); Coplan, Maxwell Frederic. (1857-1927.)

Buffalo Bill Combination : Buffalo Bill's new drama 20 days or Buffalo Bill's pledge

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Image of a central image of a portrait of William F. Cody as Buffalo Bill sitting at a campfire in a frontiersman costume with a rifle and saddle, surrounded by eight vignettes of different dramatic scenes including a street parade with a horse-drawn cart labeled "Buffalo Bill To Night"; Cody digging at a hill with a knife in the wilderness with the caption "Buried Alive"; Cody holding up the head of a young injured man with the caption "He Still Lives"; a farmer sleeping on a plow pulled by two oxen while holding a book of the "Life of Buffalo Bill" while images of caricatured Native American Indians and a man hanging by a noose while another is burned at the stake appear in his dreams, captioned "The Farmer's Dream"; Cody on horseback cutting the rope of a hangman's noose from a young man’s neck who hangs from a tree, captioned "Whose Picnic Is this?"; a parlor scene where a man is shot while others look on, captioned "The 20 days are up, and my pledge fulfilled"; a man in a fistfight with Cody in the parlor and wielding a knife, captioned "Keep Cool Pard."; and Cody riding on horseback through the plains while a fire burns in the distance and a battle with Native American Indians on horseback goes on; with images of a bison with the caption "Diamond Pin with Diamond Eyes," at bottom of central image, and an eagle that holds a medal that reads "Congress to W. F. Cody Buffalo Bill Scout & Guide" at top; the poster advertises the melodrama "20 Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge" (also known as "Twenty Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge") and includes printed date information for performances beginning on December 11, [1882], at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Sells Floto Circus

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Image of a female lion tamer in a cage with twelve performing lions, including one lion jumping through a ring of fire.

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Group portrait of Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, and other Wild West Show members

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Standing in back row, from left, Crow Eagle, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Adirondack (a naturalist). Seated in front, from left, is William Halsey (Sitting Bull's interpreter), Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, and young Johnny Baker (later known as the "Cowboy Kid" in the Wild West Show and foster son to Cody). Both Sitting Bull and Crow Eagle wear feather headdresses.

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Buffalo Bill Brand

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Image of Buffalo Bill on horseback hunting bison with two Native Americans on horseback.

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Sells Floto Circus second largest show in the world

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Image of two large elephants standing on their hind legs and performing with two female circus performers, and three small elephants performing on a seesaw between them.

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Cristiani-Wallace Bros. Circus

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Image of the head of a tiger, a female equestrian standing on a horse, and a clown riding an elephant; date sheet for a June 23, [1965], show in Lorain, Ohio, pasted below image.

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Buffalo Bill’s wild west : Sells Floto circus

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