![]() ![]() ![]() Hoping to expand his appeal to attract more middle-class family audiences, Cody launched his Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883. He had a natural gift for showmanship, a knack for homespun humor, and a western hero’s rugged good looks: he was often photographed holding a rifle and dressed in a buckskin suit with a wide brimmed hat and shoulder length hair. His growing fame inspired a series of dime novels and helped launch Cody on a traveling stage career as the star of frontier melodramas. Nicknamed Buffalo Bill, Cody polished that reputation recounting campfire tales that mingled fact, exaggeration and outright fiction. Forced to go to work to support his mother and siblings, he went on to become a buffalo hunter, guide and civilian scout and soon gained a reputation as a daring frontiersman and Indian fighter. His father was an outspoken opponent of slavery who died following a bloody attack by pro-slavery settlers when Cody was eleven years old. Cody was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory, and lived in Canada before moving with his family to the Kansas Territory. The touring production was created by William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), who promoted his ventures with the help of posters, billboards and other media innovations of the time. She is identified as "’Arrowhead,’ Belle of the Tribe.”īuffalo Bill's Wild West was one of the most successful American variety shows of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This colored poster print is a bust portrait of an American Indian woman, depicted on the image of a large arrowhead. ![]()
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