BUFFALO BILL AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CELEBRITY by KELLEN CUTSFORTH

Author:KELLEN CUTSFORTH
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TWODOT®
Published: 2020-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

Buffalo Bill Cody at his home at Scout’s Rest Ranch in North Platte, Nebraska, circa 1887

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, including Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill, circa 1885.

West troupe were frontiersmen and women who had braved the wilderness and helped tame the West. Many were hardscrabble pioneers who decided to give acting a try—and in doing so, helped create one of the most memorable enterprises in entertainment history.

CHAPTER 7

Unstable Ground

Though Buffalo Bill would eventually achieve international superstardom, he would have his troubles along the way. As Cody was quickly building his reputation as an actor and showman with the launch of his Wild West enterprise in 1883, he soon suffered a great deal of financial distress. In joining forces with Nate Salsbury, Cody found a manager who had the experience, intelligence, and ability to make Buffalo Bill’s Wild West a financial success. But unforeseen circumstances in late 1884 nearly led to the bankruptcy of the entire outfit, and if not for a fortuitous introduction to a wealthy young Englishman, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West may never have become the legendary enterprise it did.

In October 1884, during the halcyon days of America’s Gilded Age, a wealthy young Englishman named Evelyn Booth ventured to the United States to sample all that the burgeoning country had to offer. As the young sportsman traveled from New York to Chicago to Arkansas and finally to New Orleans, he tumbled into his greatest adventure—a shooting match with Buffalo Bill Cody before a crowd of three thousand spectators. Although he failed to bag a shooting trophy, the chance encounter with the king of American showmen gave Booth an opportunity to partner in one of the most profitable and renowned Western enterprises ever.

Born in 1860 to well-to-do English parents in Dublin, Ireland, Evelyn Thomas Barton Booth attended Trinity College in Cambridge, England. Evelyn was born into a long line of baronets in the British aristocracy. The baronetcy is a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The Booths were among the first eighteen families

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