Buffalo Bill Cody must have despised driving past the Sells-Floto Circus ticket office, as he did in this 1915 photograph. A debt he owed forced him into working for the circus, and the world-famous showman ended up dying, penniless, two years later.
– True West Archives –
While Buffalo Bill’s Wild West performed in Naples, Italy, in 1890, volcanic activity from Vesuvius could be seen from the arena (shown here). The fireworks-like display of regular ejections foretold the volcano’s severe eruption in 1906. Cody donated $5,000 to relief efforts (that same year, he also donated $1,000 to victims of the disastrous earthquake and fire in San Francisco, California).
– Courtesy "Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary" by Steve Friesen –
How come Arizona never extradited Wyatt Earp for the Vendetta Ride killings?
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