The buffalo were real, to begin with. So was Bill Cody. He had grown up in Kansas during the period of intensive Western migration, had served as a scout during the Indian Wars, and had even ...
In terms of the Bills, they have a famous figure from the Wild West to thank for the origin of their name. When NFL fans ...
The full-length portrait of Buffalo Bill astride his horse, that appears several times in the film, is based closely on a similar portrait by the French artist Rosa Bonheur, which hangs in the Buffalo ...
The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...
Many of ground-breaking photographer Gertrude Käsebier's portrait subjects were working and traveling with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody’s Wild West ... Portrait of American Horse and wife, Sioux ...
and 97 Indians, many of whom dreaded any passage over "the Big Water." Buffalo Bill was off to "show the effete Europeans just what real life in America is like," the New York Times said ...