Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors by Michelle Delaney

Author:Michelle Delaney [Delaney, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-204535-5
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Today, Buffalo Bill Cody’s scrapbooks of newspaper clippings from virtually every city visited on the Wild West yearly program provide invaluable references to scholars. Whether in New York, Chicago, or Kansas City, publicists for the show supplied local journalists with updates on the program, and the year’s highlights. The 1898 season, corresponding with the making of Käsebier’s first portraits, was the first to include the Cuban Rough Riders, wounded freedom fighters on furlough awaiting their return to Cuba to battle the Spanish. Their story and their horsemanship rivaled that of the American Indians in popularity with the audience. Many articles in the 1898 scrapbook reference Buffalo Bill’s readiness to join the American forces fighting in the Spanish-American War as a scout for the Army. He boasts in one article for The World, April 3, 1898, “How I Could Drive Spaniards from Cuba with 30,000 Indian Braves,” acknowledging his respect for Native American skills in warfare.55

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