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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/U.S. Cavalry Exercises.
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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/U.S. Cavalry Exercises.
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PAI-XXXIX: Rare Posters
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Size: 281 x 109 3/4 in./714 x 279 cm
Condition: BSlight tears and creases at seams and edges.
Printer: Enquirer Job, Cincinnati
Reference:
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/U.S. Cavalry Exercises.
Only known specimen of a 28-sheet billboard–linenbacked as a single unit. A quote from the introduction of The Rough Rider Annual of 1902 by Frederick Remington, an artist and sometimes correspondent for Harper’s Weekly, described the pageantry of William Cody’s Western spectacles as follows: “The Wild West is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator, and, with its aggregate of wonders from out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the derby hat and the starched linen–those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and moral cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity–where the great crime is to be an individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion” (Buffalo Bill/Legend, p. 157). If this testosterone-laced 28-sheet panoramic charge of the "U. S. Cavalry” didn’t inject a shot of adrenaline into a buttoned-down existence, it’s unlikely anything could. A truly remarkable billboard whose cumulative elements–thundering hooves, unfurled flag, drawn sabers and eagle-eyed marksmen–are as unwaveringly patriotic as they are explosively entertaining.
Size: 281 x 109 3/4 in./714 x 279 cm
Condition: BSlight tears and creases at seams and edges.
Printer: Enquirer Job, Cincinnati
Reference:
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/U.S. Cavalry Exercises.
Only known specimen of a 28-sheet billboard–linenbacked as a single unit. A quote from the introduction of The Rough Rider Annual of 1902 by Frederick Remington, an artist and sometimes correspondent for Harper’s Weekly, described the pageantry of William Cody’s Western spectacles as follows: “The Wild West is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator, and, with its aggregate of wonders from out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the derby hat and the starched linen–those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and moral cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity–where the great crime is to be an individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion” (Buffalo Bill/Legend, p. 157). If this testosterone-laced 28-sheet panoramic charge of the "U. S. Cavalry” didn’t inject a shot of adrenaline into a buttoned-down existence, it’s unlikely anything could. A truly remarkable billboard whose cumulative elements–thundering hooves, unfurled flag, drawn sabers and eagle-eyed marksmen–are as unwaveringly patriotic as they are explosively entertaining.
