Title: Untitled [The Wild West Show went a great deal better]

Periodical: The Referee

Date: May 1887

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THE REFEREE.

The Wild West Show went a great deal better on Wednesday, and was enthusiastically received by a tremendous audience of half-crowners. The world of rank and fashion and beauty had flocked to the Exhibition. I noted a host of improvements both in the arena and in the auditorium. The "stage management" I spoke about last week has been brought to bear on the performance. Later in the day the courteous general manager, Major Burke, discovered me in some extraordinary way, for I always wear my hat well down over my nose and preserve a strict incognito, and personally conducted me over the encampment, introducing me to Red Shirt and Buck Taylor, Miss Annie Oakley

Title: Untitled [The Wild West Show went a great deal better]

Periodical: The Referee

Source: Buffalo Bill Center of the West; MS6, William F. Cody collection, MS6.3681.004.05 (Oakley scrapbook)

Date: May 1887

Topics: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain

Keywords: Firearms Sharpshooters Stage management Traveling exhibitions

People: Burke, John M., 1842-1917 Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926 Red Shirt, 1845?-1925 Taylor, William Levi, 1857-1924

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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