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Title
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Spotlight on Old West Performers
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Description
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Profiles of some of the more famous "Wild West" shows and performers of the 1800's, including William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie, and "Buffalo" Jones. A brief section describes the ill-fated "Cole Younger and Frank James' Wild West Show" (in which neither outlaw actually performed) of 1903.
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Date
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2006-12-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Betty Thompson
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Description
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Exterior view, identified as Betty Thompson riding in Milt Hinkle's Texas Rangers Wild West Rodeo, 1950. Appears to be jumping over a convertible car in front of crowd.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Milt Hinkle and Others
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Description
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Outdoor view of three men on horseback at what appears to be a tent show. Men identified left to right as Old Stalfer, great Roman Rider; Bee Ho Gray; Milt Hinkle. Location not given.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Rodeo Event
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Description
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Postcard of exterior rodeo scene identified by Montgomery as Pancho Villa, Hinkle's Texas Ranger Wild West Show, 1934, Hinkle's bull.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Celebrating Buffalo Bill
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Description
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This photo essay features rarely seen images of Buffalo Bill from the new book "Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary," by Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum.
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Date
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2011-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Story of Cole Younger by Himself
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Description
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Autobiography of Cole Younger originally published in 1903. Younger writes about his childhood in Missouri, the Kansas-Missouri border wars, his years as a Confederate guerrilla, his time as an outlaw, his time in prison, and the lessons he has learned from his life. The 2000 edition contains an introduction by Marley Brant.
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Date
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1903
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Doctor Diamond Dick; Leavenworth's Flamboyant Medicine Man
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Description
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Medicine men and medicine shows, Wild West shows and dime novels were a popular late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century phenomena, and this is the story of medicine man/showman George B. McClellan known as Dr. Diamond Dick. He traveled parts of the Midwest including Kansas and in particular in Leavenworth in 1887-88. Diamond Dick's persona was kept in the public eye thanks to the dime novel stories.Article includes a part of his obituary which appeared in the December 14, 1911, Kansas City Journal.
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Date
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2003
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
