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‘Your Fathers the Ghosts’ - Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in
Scotland by Tom F. Cunningham Black & White Publishing, Edinburgh Published 16th November 2007 ISBN: 978-1-84502-117-7
Amazon UK Your Fathers the Ghosts blends the full range of pre-existing scholarship with several years’ worth of original research to produce what is easily the most comprehensive account presently available of Buffalo Bill’s Scottish venues. |
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People of the Horse Nation - Plains Indians in Early Picture Postcards by Richard Green Foreword and design by Alan Hughes Spellicans Press, Oxford Published 2013 Available directly from many_roads1@yahoo.co.uk
eBay This superb pictorial account includes numerous examples of Indians who participated in the tours of Great Britain.
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An Indian Called Wounded Knee - Miss Viola Clemmons and the White Lily Company in England & Wales, 1891-92 by Tom F. Cunningham English Westerners’ Society, London First published August 2012 14,794 words 42 pages
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eBay Another highly original research project, shedding light on a neglected aspect of Buffalo Bill’s British tours. During the 1891-92 season, while Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was performing at provincial venues throughout Great Britain, Colonel Cody’s protegée, Miss Viola Clemmons, was embarked on a theatrical tour of England and Wales, with her short-lived White Lily company. Included in the company was a party of ten Lakota Indians and half-breeds, brought to England especially for this surreal production. |
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Black Elk, Mexican Joe & Buffalo Bill - The Real Story by Tom F. Cunningham English Westerners’ Society, London First published Spring 2015 16,000+ words 43 pages
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Mexican Joe Volume II - The Running Wolf Years by Tom F. Cunningham English Westerners’ Society, London Published Winter 2016-17 17,936 words 44 pages
Few copies remaining, please enquire.
Written as a sequel to Black Elk, Mexican Joe & Buffalo Bill - The Real Story, Volume II resumes the story of
Mexican Joe’s chaotic and outrageous career as a Wild West showman at the point at which he parted company with
Black Elk during the spring of 1889. The focus this time around is provided by the party of ‘Apaches’
throughout an almost perpetual tour of the United Kingdom, mercifully terminated by financial
embarrassment in 1894. The star performer was Running Wolf, the ‘savage of the seventy scalps’, widely
publicised as the most fiendish member of Geronimo’s final band of renegades.
As ever, nothing is what it seems...
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The Lies and Legends of Montana Bill - Wild West Echoes in Glasgow by Tom F. Cunningham English Westerners’ Society, London Published Summer 2020 16,410 words 48 pages
A further careful examination of the frontier which lies intermediate between historical truth and outright fantasy.
Robert Bailey Robeson, otherwise ‘Montana Bill’, was a sharpshooter, cowboy actor, and aspiring Wild West showman.
He was also a long-time resident of Glasgow, Scotland, from around the end of the 19th century until
1919, when he abruptly vanished, leaving a string of illegitimate children and aliases in his wake.
According to a self-composed resumé of his life story, he was a mixed-blood Oglala, born in January 1855, and his
mother was a daughter of Chief Rain in the Face. After a series of remarkable frontier adventures, Montana Bill
eventually enlisted in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West as a sharpshooting act and Indian interpreter. This new vocation
brought him to Great Britain, where, when Cody returned to the States in the autumn of 1892, our hero transferred
his services to Mexican Joe.
Can this astonishing personal history or any part of it be substantiated? Judge for yourself but be prepared for
more than one sting in the tale...
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