Title: Accident at the "Wild West" Show
Periodical: Daily Chronicle
Date: September 15, 1892
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ACCIDENT AT THE "WILD WEST" SHOW.—At Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show on Saturday afternoon one of the Mexican vaqueros, Johnny Franz, met with a serious accident when breaking in a bucking mustang in the arena. A lasso, thrown to catch the animals forelegs and bring him to the ground, coiled round the hindlegs instead, and the mustang, bucking with might and main, ran the rope so quickly through Franz's left hand as to cut it severely. At the London Hospital it was found necessary to put in nine stitches.
Title: Accident at the "Wild West" Show
Periodical: Daily Chronicle
Source: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody Collection, MS6, MS6.3778.122.04 (1892 London)
Date: September 15, 1892
Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain
Keywords: Cowboys Equestrian accidents Exhibitions Lasso Mexicans Mustang Scrapbooks Traveling exhibitions Wild horses Wounds and injuries
Places: Earl's Court (London, England) London (England)
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