Buffalo Bill's Poem 'Evolution'

The pawn shop is one of the central images in the poem "Evolution". This pawn shop was set up by Buffalo Bill and he had put it right on the border of a Native American reservation. It happened to be right across the street from a liquor store. This would make the Native Americans come inside the pawn shop, after the Native Americans would sell or pawn everything, they had just to go across the street and buy liquor. Buffalo Bill had used this location to prove that the Native Americans were alcoholics and would do anything to get their liquor. The pawn shop always stayed busy with Native Americans and Buffalo Bill finally got his point across that he was trying to make (Kirszner & Mandell, 2012).

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