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

Image: Why Wouldn't a Wild East Show be Popular, too? from Puck

Caption reads: Why Wouldn't a Wild East Show be Popular, too? Here are a Few Features for It. Inset captions: Marvelous wild eastern marksmanship. Attack on a passenger conveyance by wild newspaper hoodlums of the highway. The great Brooklyn medicine chief, "Howling Whirlwind." The lightening courier of the pathless East. War-dance of the Stock-Exchange Indians. The "Copper" tribe on the war-path--Surrounding the home of a peaceful settler.

Title: Why Wouldn't a Wild East Show be Popular, too? from Puck

Creator: Opper, Frederick Burr (1857-1937)

Keywords: European Tours

Date: 1887-06-29

Type: Illustration

ID: wfc.img.ill.crt00022

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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: Why Wouldn't a Wild East Show be Popular, too? from Puck