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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
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PAI-XXXIX: Rare Posters
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Size: 40 x 28 7/8 in./101.7 x 73.2 cm
Condition: B+Slight tears at paper edges.
Printer: A. Hoen, Baltimore
Reference:
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
A variant of the previous poster that, apart from some minor textual changes, is identical save for one major change: Buffalo Bill has been replaced by a nameless cowboy who now fulfills the lassoing duties undertaken by Cody in the prior image.”Much has been said of Buffalo Bill’s romanticizing of the American Cowboy. There’s no question about that; he practically brought the word into our vocabulary, first spelling it “Cow-Boy” . . . And it is a bit strange today that we should find elaborate explanations of what a “Cow-Boy” is and does–but Cody went to great lengths to explain this in all his programs. And as with so many of the incidents portrayed in the Wild West, the depiction of the cowboy exploited a pageant of a passing era–revived and made real for Americans by Buffalo Bill” (Buffalo Bill, p. 11).
Size: 40 x 28 7/8 in./101.7 x 73.2 cm
Condition: B+Slight tears at paper edges.
Printer: A. Hoen, Baltimore
Reference:
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
A variant of the previous poster that, apart from some minor textual changes, is identical save for one major change: Buffalo Bill has been replaced by a nameless cowboy who now fulfills the lassoing duties undertaken by Cody in the prior image.”Much has been said of Buffalo Bill’s romanticizing of the American Cowboy. There’s no question about that; he practically brought the word into our vocabulary, first spelling it “Cow-Boy” . . . And it is a bit strange today that we should find elaborate explanations of what a “Cow-Boy” is and does–but Cody went to great lengths to explain this in all his programs. And as with so many of the incidents portrayed in the Wild West, the depiction of the cowboy exploited a pageant of a passing era–revived and made real for Americans by Buffalo Bill” (Buffalo Bill, p. 11).
