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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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P2 Wild West Photograph Collection
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Description
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This collection of images primarily relates to Western lore during the late 19th and parts of the 20th centuries. It includes cowboys and cowgirls, entertainment figures, venues as rodeos and Wild West shows, Indians, lawmen, outlaws and their gangs, as well as criminals including those involved in the Union Station Massacre.
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Date
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1880~/1969~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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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
