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Post by harpskiddie on Sept 26, 2006 16:42:11 GMT -6
Somewhere on one of these threads, there is a photograph of bonnetted warriors playing ping pong.
I thought you all might be interested in this quote from Larry McMurtry: "The West became show business almost immediately. Within a year of taking the famous First Scalp for Custer (a scalp still shrouded in controversy), Buffalo Bill had his Wild West Show going, and only a decade later he was racing eight European kings around Earl's Court in a stage coach at Queen Victoria's Jubilee, while Indians, resting between mock battles, played pingpong behind the tents."
Gordie
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Post by Diane Merkel on Sept 26, 2006 22:56:24 GMT -6
Here it is, Gordie. The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, has the "First Scalp for Custer" in their vault but cannot display it because of the law against displaying human remains.
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Post by grahamew on Sept 27, 2006 1:05:16 GMT -6
Cody was on stage in the East as early as 1874, wasn't he?
Don't suppose anyone has a copy of that Bonnard picture of the 'Peaux Rouges' that he painted when he saw the Wild West Show in Paris?
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