Papers, 1894-1954.

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Papers, 1894-1954.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46542332

Collection contains mainly the correspondence of Pawnee Bill and May Lillie from 1894-1935 with the bulk of it being written by May Lillie from 1894-1895 to Annie Ostendorff while touring in Europe. The collection also includes photographs of rodeos, 3 artifacts relating to Pawnee Bill's wild west show, 5 photograph albums of rodeos and wild west shows from the 1890s-1930s, and miscellaneous other materials.

1.08 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7567043

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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Pawnee Bill's Wild West (Show)

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Lillie, May Manning.

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Ostendorff, Annie.

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Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942

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Pawnee Bill was a Wild West show impresario and late contemporary of Buffalo Bill Cody, with whom he was in partnership between 1908 and 1913. From the description of Pawnee Bill letter, 1931. (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum). WorldCat record id: 61257714 Gordon W. Lillie (1860-1942) was born in Illinois and worked as an interpreter and schoolteacher at the Pawnee Indian Agency in what is now Oklahoma, starting in 1878. He later worked as an interpreter for th...