Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

In 1883, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show began in North Platte, Nebraska. Before it folded three decades later, the hunter-scout-turned-megastar had entertained over 50 million Americans and Europeans. With 200 actors and 300 head of elk, deer, horses, mules, mountain sheep and buffalo, the show was a Wild West odyssey. Posters were one of the most powerful marketing tools used to promote the megastar. Made to impress the crowned heads of Europe and the masses in America, these colorful lith