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Sioux on the Beach

by | Sep 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

Buffalo Bill's Wild West show Indians re-created in an installation by artist Thom Ross.
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody had been planning his next feat as a showman when, in 1882, he was asked to stage an “Old Glory Blowout” in North Platte, Nebraska. Press agent, advance man, manager and friend, “Arizona John” Burke helped Cody cobble together a celebration that would evolve into the famous Wild West show, a huge


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