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What do you imagine about classic western style? Is it a cowboy with extreme action performance and masculinity? Or is it old good days and farming a big land with a horse? Probably, you imagine everything what you see on a classic movie and typical western shows. American history shows Americans’ hope to our future. The best way to learn the foundation of this country is going to historical museum. Buffalo Bill Museum is one of the museums where people see the historical western artifacts and vintage films about Western colonization and old Western lifestyle. Also, people have a better understanding of American ideology. In Greg Dickinson, Brian Ott, and Eric Aoki’s “Memory and Myth at the Buffalo Bill Museum,” published in 2005, they explain

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