William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

Image: Broncho Bill and family

Portrait of Broncho Bill (William Irving) with his wife, Ella, and son, Bennie. Bill wears a hat, kerchief, beaded vest, button shirt, pistol on a gun belt, and beaded moccasins. Ella wears a fringed and beaded buckskin dress. Bennie wears an embroidered shirt, chaps with a pistol tuck in at waist and moccasins. Backdrop of painted trees in background. Typed caption on mat, "Broncho Bill (and Family.) Cow Boy Interpreter of the Sioux. — Buffalo Bill's Wild West." Typed caption on verso, "Anderson Photographer, 785 Broadway, Cor. of 10th, New York."

Title: Broncho Bill and family

Creator: Anderson

Keywords: Irving, William "Broncho Bill", 1856-1903 Irving, Ella Irving, Bennie Men Women Children Firearms Pistols Dresses Vests Hats Beads Indian beadwork American Indians

Date: 1887

Type: photograph

Format: 3.875 x 5.5 b&w photograph

ID: wfc.img.pho.p.69.110

Source: Buffalo Bill Online Archive MS6 William F. Cody Collection

Rights: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Funding and support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Wyoming Community Foundation, Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources, the Dellenback Family Foundation, Adrienne & John Mars, and Naoma Tate & the Family of Hal Tate.

Banner image: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.A.; Original Buffalo Bill Museum Collection, P.69.118

The William F. Cody Archive, Buffalo Bill Center of the West and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Published under a Creative Commons License.

The William F. Cody Archive: Documenting the life and times of Buffalo Bill

Image: Broncho Bill and family