A Poster of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress Digital History ID 2880

A Poster of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress

Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: poster
Museum Number: LC-USZC4-2943
Annotation: In 1893, Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West show arrived in Chicago, popularizing the image of the West as a region of gun-toting scouts and cowboys and marauding Indians. For more than 30 years, from 1883 to 1916, Buffalo Bill's Wild West was one of the most popular entertainments.
Year: 1899

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