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Title: Celebrating Buffalo Bill
Description: 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.
Date: 2011-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Spotlight on Old West Performers
Description: 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.
Date: 2006-12-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Doctor Diamond Dick; Leavenworth's Flamboyant Medicine Man
Description: 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.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Betty Thompson
Description: 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.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Rodeo Event
Description: Postcard of exterior rodeo scene identified by Montgomery as Pancho Villa, Hinkle's Texas Ranger Wild West Show, 1934, Hinkle's bull.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tommy Cropper, Trick Rider
Description: Postcard showing trick rider on underside of horse. Identified by Montgomery as Tommy Cropper going under his horse, 1926 at Milt Hinkle Texas Ranger's Wild West Show.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The Story of Cole Younger by Himself
Description: 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.
Date: 1903
Object Type: Book

Title: Milt Hinkle and Others
Description: 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.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: P2 Wild West Photograph Collection
Description: 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.
Date: 1880~/1969~
Object Type: Finding Aid

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