[illustration]
"THE WILD WEST" at Earl's Court
THE ENCAMPMENT
MISS OAKLEY "THE DOUBLE RISE."
Shepperson
The Wild West show at the Earl's Court Exhibition is again flourishing exceedingly, and I don't wonder at it. I love it. I get quite childishly excited over the attack on the Deadwood coach, and the marvellous riding of the Indians makes me sick with envy. I used to think I could ride once, but that was before the advent of Buffalo Bill and his merry men. The shooting of the picturesque Colonel Cody and the intrepid Miss Oakley is as magnificent as ever and everything goes "with a bang"—literally enough, for there is plenty of gunpowder about the performance, and everyone receives a sort of harmless "baptism of fire."
Note: Shepperson, Claude Allin, 1867-1921; painter; illustrator.
Title: The Wild West at Earl's Court
Periodical: Hearth and Home
Source: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Collection, MS6, MS6.3778.035.04 (1892 London)
Date: [June 1892]
Topics: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain
Keywords: American Indians Drawings and graphics Exhibitions Firearms Historical reenactments Horsemanship Indians of North America Scrapbooks Shooting Stagecoaches Traveling exhibitions
People: Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 Shepperson, Claude A. (Claude Allin), 1867-1921
Places: Earl's Court (London, England) London (England)
Artist/Illustrator: Shepperson, Claude A. (Claude Allin), 1867-1921
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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