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Wild West.” – the Omaha Daily Bee, May 21, 1883 The Wild West Keeping the American Legend Alive By Elizabeth Mack For a month past the great event to which all our citizens were looking forward was the appearance of the Cody and Carver combination, with their original and novel Nebraska show, entitled the “Wild West.” – The Omaha Daily Bee, May 21, 1883 he newspaper excerpt above public’s imagination. What was, and way to satisfy the public’s fascination describes the first ever Wild continues to be, the attraction to these with the West. Even as early as the West exhibition of William shows and the Wild West? late 1880s, Cody and others believed F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Cody’s “The Wild West, Rocky the West was dying, and that his performed in Omaha to an Mountain, exhibitions were a way to keep it alive. Tenthusiastic crowd. Along with Codyody aandnd AAccordingccord to Sarah Blackstone, author was his one-time partner, Doc Carver,ver, ooff BuBuckskins,ck Bullets and Business, and their large troupe of performers,rs, by the ttime Cody’s shows were at the including Capt. A.H. Bogardus (U.S..S. hheighteight oof their popularity in the early champion trap shooter), as well as 18901890s,s “all but four of the Western numerous Pony Express riders tterritorieserri had become states, the and Sioux, Omaha and Pawnee lalastst Indian uprising had been Indians (Chief Sitting Bull and ququelled, and there were four Annie Oakley would later join trtranscontinental railroads.” the troupe) and even a small SSettlers were coming west by herd of buffalo. The newspaper the thousands, and for Buffalo reported “no less than 8,000 Bill, these exhibitions served persons were present to witness to not only entertain, but to the opening” of Cody’s quell what was becoming extravaganza, a substantial known as “frontier anxiety.” number even by today’s Many Americans became standards. concerned, believing the free Buffalo Bill’s re-enactments land was nearly gone, and were the first in a long line feared its disappearance would COURTESY OF NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Wild West exhibitions that change society. The belief that served to keep the legend of the tthe frontier had ended created outlaws and gunslingers alive; a nostalgia that spurred many more than 80 companies have beenn AAmericansm to wonder what they documented to operate in the late had missed by not going west. 19th and early 20th centuries, and ThThee WWild West shows satisfied their these re-enactments continue to thriverive cravcravinging for adventure. today. On any given weekend acrossoss CCody’sody exhibitions, which thrilled PHOTO BY PASQUALE MINGARELLI the country, re-enactment troupes aaudiencesudienc with displays of shootouts, depict the era of the rough-and-tumblemble stastagecoachgeco robberies and Indians on cowboy hero. Though America’s PiiPrairie ftfoot racing against horses, glamorized history boasts many interesting and Exhibition” (he was careful not to use the West. According to Paul Reddin, In Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show posters, the Congress of Rough Riders were always highlighted as great hunters, expert unique periods, it is the era of wild, the word “show” in the title, as he author of Wild West Shows, these equestrians and skilled sharpshooters. The posters – and word of mouth – were the primary forms of advertisement at the time. western cowboys – roughly 1860 argued the performances were “reality elaborate “re-enactments” satisfied Even today, modern reenactors often try to keep the legends of the Wild West alive by dressing in period dress (left) and using to 1890 – that seems to capture the itself”) and others like them served as a a cultural need for Americans who replicas of period weaponry as they recreate famous gunfights or popular heroes of the time. 34 NEBRASKALAND • JUNE 2012 JUNE 2012 • NEBRASKALAND 35 Wild West Re-Enactments – Cody’s Wild West show performed to a crowd of 18,000 at Chicago’s Nebraska to Arizona World’s Fair in 1893. At the same Nebraska fair, a scholar declared in a speech • Rock Creek Trail Days – Fairbury, Nebraska. First weekend in that “The frontier has gone.” This was June. the beginning of the end of the Wild • Railroad Days – Railroad heritage at Durham Western Heritage West shows. Cody’s exhibition closed Museum, Lauritzen Gardens, Union Pacific Railroad Museum, The up for good in 1913, partly due to Historic General Dodge House and RailsWest Railroad Museum in the advent of the motion picture. The Omaha, Nebraska. July. first narrative film ever in 1903, The • Grand Duke Alexis Rendezvous – Russian Czar, Alexander II, the Great Train Robbery, was inspired by Grand Duke Alexis visited Nebraska in 1872 for a buffalo hunt led the robbing of a Union Pacific train by Buffalo Bill Cody, General George Custer, and General Phil by Butch Cassidy’s Hole in the Wall Sheridan. This celebration includes storytelling from the “actual” Gang. Other exhibitions continued with characters and other events at Camp Hayes Lake, Hayes Center, mixed success for another decade, but Nebraska. September. the characters lived on. Even though • NEBRASKAland DAYS – Buffalo Bill Rodeo, The Frontier Revue, the Wild West shows were dying Heritage Festival and more. North Platte, Nebraska. June. off, the shaping of the mythological The Great Platte River Road Archway – Kearney, daily. COURTESY OF NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY American hero continued in paintings, • dime-novels and film. Buffalo Bill Outside Nebraska became the most often-portrayed • Gathering of the Gunfighters – Yuma, Arizona. January. western hero in re-enactments and on • Custer’s Last Stand Re-enactment & Little Bighorn Days – Hardin & screen. Crow Agency, Montana. June. “It’s embedded in Americans’ • Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Days – Sheridan, Wyoming. June. psyche. When we see those characters • Wild West Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing or . A Whole riding the range, taming the horses, Lotta Fussin’ over Nothin’ – American West Heritage Center, Logan saving the farm or ranch, it touches on Utah. Weekends in July. our basic emotions of not only survival, but that we can make a difference,” said J. B. Tyson, Nebraska filmmaker and film studies specialist. “It comes came out of Buffalo Bill’s “Old Glory other period-specific demonstrations,” Many Wild West exhibition posters often depicted heroic riders coming to the rescue of white settlers from the “savage Indians,” as shown here. The show’s depiction of Indians reinforced inaccurate stereotypes that followed Native Americans into 20th century down to the basics of good versus evil. Blowout,” which celebrated the Fourth said Judy Weers with the Rock Creek films. Even though the idea of the Wild West of July in 1882 and is argued to have Station Visitors Center and Museum, and its heroes is based in legend and been the first rodeo in the country. “but the shootouts with the re-enactors wanted to see the conquest of the music in the 1840s. During this period, surrounded by myth, the desire to be Cheyenne Frontier Days is another are always the most popular.” country as a grand accomplishment American showman P. T. Barnum that hero is real.” immensely popular example, going Harlin Krueger, along with his filled with drama and excitement: exhibited Indian chiefs, dances and Even though these shows slowly strong since 1897. wife Carol and a band of about 15 “Characterizing the winning of the an array of Wild West displays in his came to an end, they created a passion Another legend that lives on in volunteers, form the Old West Theater Plains frontier as easy and peaceful museums before he became known for western-style entertainment, and the re-enactments is Wild Bill Hickok. Group, a band of re-enactors who would have minimized something that for his circus. The myths grew bigger contemporary rodeo is a direct result Rock Creek Station, located on the perform the famed McCanles shootout Americans wanted to see as heroic.” and more exaggerated when the dime of Cody’s Wild West exhibitions. outskirts of Fairbury and established that set Wild Bill Hickok’s reputation It would have been difficult (and novel took off in the late-1850s. These Though informal rodeos existed in the along the Oregon Trail as a stage and in motion, at Fairbury’s Trail Days: boring) to show a farming family novels captured the public’s fascination 1820s and 1830s, competitive rodeo Pony Express stop, is where Hickok “We not only recreate the actual raising a cabin and planting crops – with sensational tales of violence and emerged after the Civil War, and often began his gunslinging career in what is shootout that took place here, but we Americans needed a larger-than-life heroics – cowboys versus Indians, Wild West shows introduced rodeo known as the “McCanles Massacre.” also reenact the Pony Express changing hero to represent the epic “conquering” lawmen versus outlaws, settlers versus exhibitions into their acts. The only In 1980, the Nebraska Game and of the mochila.” These mochilas (from of the Plains, and the dashing and predatory cattlemen. One of the most difference is Buffalo Bill’s and other Parks Commission began to develop the Spanish word for “knapsack”) adventurous Buffalo Bill Cody fit the successful of these dime novels was shows hired performers instead of Rock Creek Station as a state historical were thrown over the saddle and held bill. Cody’s “National Entertainment” Ned Buntline’s series on William prize-money contestants. Professional park. Today, the park hosts “Rock in place by the weight of the rider, advertised “Object Lessons” and Cody. Buffalo Bill Cody - King of the rodeo had an explosion of popularity Creek Trail Days” the first weekend of and the mail pockets (cantinas) were “Educational Exhibitions” but Buffalo Bordermen was the first of 550 titles in the decade after World War I, and June, an event that boasts living history padlocked.
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