Wild West Shows

In 1893, The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World and to show how America has grown and progressed since then. In conjunction with the world fair, was the Parliament of the World Religions, an event propitiating non-Christian religions to speak on behalf of their own religion. However, even though the world fair was hosted on a total of 690 acres of land, not a single one of those acres were dedicated to Native American Religion besides a teepee set up at the entrance and the noble savage. The only actual living identified Native Americans present were outside the world fair featured in the Wild West show, Buffalo Bill, where they were shown as the bad guys and acted out their own execution. Yet ironically while they were enacting their own death they simultaneously were revitalizing Native American culture and religion with an underground vibrant pan-indian community of those acting in the show. Although Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show helped Native Americans join together and create a transformed religion and culture, to…

put that aside for now. Let’s assume, as Disney does, that Hopkins, the son of a U.S. Army Lieutenant and an Indian chief’s daughter, bonded with an extremely intelligent mustang pinto named Hidalgo. By renouncing his half-Indian heritage and relaying the orders for the Wounded Knee massacre, which he was forced to watch, Hopkins turned to liquor bottles and became the laughing stock of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. In turn, when given the…

restraints of the past, and confidence to look forward. Even though in the bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 that “at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line” (CITE pg. 7 of Sakai handout). The narratives of the Frontier myth was continuous. With President John F. Kennedy’s emphasis on the space exploration along with economic growth, soldiers equation of combat missions to playing…

She is most noted for being a champion sharpshooter that was only 15 years old just helping out her family to get by. But soon got noticed by a man that bought her game that she caught for his hotel and he wanted her enter a contest that began her whole career. Then enough she became the woman that we know for her really good skills. She is known for the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. She and Frank also acted for commercials and shows when she was not doing her performances. Annie did this show…

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When we think of the Wild West, the first things that usually come to mind are cowboys, gunfights, revenge, duels and Indians. The typical cowboy we think of is a rugged, tough looking man, dressed in a “cowboy” hat, a vest, leather chaps and boots with two revolvers holstered around his waist, always at the tips of his fingers. While these images, in part, reflect reality -- there were cowboys and bandits and Indian raids -- they are primarily based on popular culture, the movies, TV shows,…

Path To Deterioration American author, Cassia Leo, once wrote, “The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people around you” (Leo). Leo is claiming that loneliness easily causes the destruction of a human. In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild, he showcases a similar opinion on solitude through the story of Chris McCandless. Chris McCandless runs away from his family and former life to start one of his own, by himself, in the Alaskan wilderness. Similarly, in Ray Bradbury’s novel…

Into the Wild Into the Wild is a book about a man named Alex, Chris was his name before then he changed it. It is a biography of him, and it tells about what Alex has written in his journal during his adventures. This book talks about his life and all the troubles he gets through, up until he dies. Alex is a traveler that travels throughout everywhere. He is a hitchhiker and does not need material things or money. Into the wild, by Jon Krakauer. This is a book that a man reads a journal about…

One of my favourite books and movies is Jon Krakauer’s Into The Wild (1996) that was adapted to the screen by Sean Penn in 2007. The film follows the true story of Christopher McCandless’ expedition across North America and his time spent in the Alaskan wilderness where he died alone. During the film viewers are taken along a journey where they see the main character search for his true place in the natural world independent from the trappings of a normal suburban life. The movie is beautifully…

An Author’s Manipulations Chris McCandless’s whole life was an adventure. After graduating from college, he left home for the rest of his short-lived life to go on expeditionss into the uninhabited wilderness of the United States. Two years later, he was found dead in an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail on the border of Denali National Park, twenty-five miles west of Healy, Alaska. Jon Krakauer, an inspired author, wrote a 9,000 word article for Outside Magazine about this boy’s story and…