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

Image: Cossack

Portrait of a Cossack man standing with hands on hips in wild west arena. The man wears a hat, cloak, traditional Georgian chokha, sword and dagger. Wild west show painted backdrop of Devil's Gate in Wyoming in background. Stamped caption, "Copyrighted 1901 by William H. Rau, 52" appears in white in lower left. Cossacks with Buffalo Bill's Wild West were trick riders from Georgia.

Title: Cossack

Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920

Keywords: Men Cossacks Swords Wild west shows Arenas Portraits Backdrops

Date: 1901

Type: photograph

Format: 10.375 x 13.875 b&w mounted photograph

ID: wfc.img.pho.p.69.49

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: Cossack