The scout Buffalo Bill. Honorable W.F. Cody / P. Frenzeny ; Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.

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The scout Buffalo Bill. Honorable W.F. Cody / P. Frenzeny ; Forbes Co., Boston & N.Y.

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Buffalo Bill on horseback, holding smoking rifle, in front of soldiers on horseback.

Buffalo Bill (1846—1917), American buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, actor, and impresario who dramatized the facts and flavour of the American West through fiction and melodrama. His colourful Wild West show, which came to be known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, evolved into an international institution and made him one of the world’s first global celebrities.

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01/01/1872
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Forbes Co., lithographer
Frenzeny, Paul, artist
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Library of Congress
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