...Some skill acts were sharp shooting (with a pistol and rifle), wing shooting (with a shotgun), roping, and trick riding to showcase star performers. These skills showcased how they survived the frontier west. Wild West shows also had a circus band that was called the “Cowboy Band” and they set the stage with appropriate music for the scenes. The role of Indian people was both essential and important in the Wild West Shows. In the big shows they generally were treated and paid the same as other performers. The Indians that were in the show traveled with their families and earned a living off the shows. Buffalo Bill encouraged them to keep their culture and rituals. Soon Buffalo Bill was too old and couldn’t get on his saddle by himself and he knew it was time to...
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...westering pioneers. The first Codys in America were Huguenots who fled France for the Isle of Jersey to escape religious persecution. By 1698 they owned land in Massachusetts. Isaac was born in Ontario in 1811 and grew up in Ohio. Twice widowed, he wed schoolteacher Mary Bonsell Laycock in 1840 in Cincinnati. She was descended of Pennsylvania Quaker pioneers. With Martha, Isaac's five-year-old daughter from his first marriage, they moved to Scott County, Iowa, where six of their seven children were born: Samuel, 1841; Julia, 1843; William, 1846; Eliza, 1848; Helen, 1850; and May, 1853. Only prolonged illness kept Isaac from striking out for California during the gold rush. After the accidental death of Samuel in 1853, the Codys headed west, moving briefly to Missouri then to Kansas where Isaac supplied hay and wood to Ft. Leavenworth and traded with the Kickapoo Indians. Another son, Charles, was born in 1855. Isaac, a man of principal and an active civic leader, was stabbed in 1854 while making a speech against slavery. The attack did not deter him from his economic or political activities, but its lingering effects led to his death in 1857. Bill ("Willie" to his family) and Julia supported and cared for the younger children and their ailing mother. Martha left to marry and died shortly thereafter. Bill took a job as a herder and mounted messenger with Russell, Majors, and Waddell, the Leavenworth freighting firm and organizers of the Pony Express. A year later he accompanied...
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...Reality Eclipsing Romance The American Cowboy, by reason of his picturesqueness, was a prime subject for entertainments like the Wild West show. However, the limitations of popular entertainment caused William Cody to stress the cowboy’s attractive charm to the exclusion of other qualities. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, formed in 1883 and lasting until 1913, romanticized versions of a time and place, and shaped the myth of the Wild West, including the glamorized image of the cowboy. When the world spun into the twentieth century, millions of people believed they recalled the American Wild West because “they had seen it, full of life and color, smoking guns and galloping horses, presided over by the most recognizable celebrity of his day: William F. Cody, or Buffalo Bill.” Spectators accepted the vivid personal memories that the Wild West show generated as historical truth. Although William F. Cody claimed that the motive behind Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show was to preserve “The Great West that Was,” his dramatized and inaccurate portrayals belied the true portrait of the American Cowboy to the public. At one time or another, William Cody performed the duties of a U.S. Army Scout, Indian Fighter, rancher, businessman, and world-renowned entertainer, but still, Cody never actually worked as a cowboy. Cody claimed that he staged his memories, “in the hope of giving permanent form to the history of the Plains” However, he contradicts this claim with his account of the obsession...
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...Annie Oakley “Get your gun!” That is what Annie Oakley was known by. Oakley is known as the greatest performer with a gun of all time. If you gave Oakley a gun she could do amazing things with it that no one had ever done before. Annie Oakley impacted the citizens of the United States because she proved that girls can do anything guys can, helping with World War 2, and being in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Phoebe Anne Mozee (later nicknamed Annie) was born in Ohio on August 13, 1860 to Quaker Jacobs and Susan Moses. She grew up a very poor farm girl. Her father died of pneumonia so Oakley tended to her mother and her siblings but spent most of her time at a farm near by. She was overworked and abused severely by a farmer. When Oakley was young she enjoyed trapping birds, then later learned how to use a gun. As young as she was she knew that she would someday be a professional shooter. As early of being 15 years old she was known as a”dead shot” with a pistol, meaning she could do almost anything with a gun. Due to her father dying and having to stay home to tend to her mother and siblings she didn’t get full education as...
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...currently staying at an hotel located at 63rd and Wallace. I was able to attend the opening ceremony of the Chicago World's Fair, and boy it was crowded. I have never seen this many people gathered in one place. President Grover Cleveland was also at the fair and pressed the button signaling the opening of the Chicago World's Fair. The one thing that surprised me the most was this ride called the Ferris Wheel. I have never seen anything like it before, it is like a big wheel that spins in a circle and you can ride in it. For every person that road in the Ferris Wheel they received a free sample of Cracker Jack, which was weird version of popcorn. The second day of the fair I was interested in seeing a show called Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show which was located right next to the fair. A lot of people attended the show, and it was worth the money I spent. I also visited the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building which had many sorts of art. The ones that really caught my attention were the exotic art which seemed to be very popular. I also got to visit a very unique invention called the clasp locker. It is suppose to change the way we close things like on clothes. Their were far to many extraordinary attractions that I could describe and all of them were fascinating. I think the Chicago World's fair will change society and bring our nation closer together. The importance of some of the attractions such as the clasp locker will affect society in multiple different ways...
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...101 ranvhOutline Thesis: The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. I.Introduction A. Opening remarks B. Thesis statement II.Will Rogers A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Life after ranch and death III. Bill Pickett A. Childhood B. Joins ranch C. Steer wrestling D. Life after ranch and death IV. 101 Ranch Wild West Show A. Will Rogers' contributions B. Bill Pickett's contribution V. Conclusion The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was a great, if not the greatest wild west show of all time. Its diversity and showmanship gathered thousands of people from around the world to watch and be amazed at the spectacular show that was put on. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show combined the thrills of the Wild West with the acts and performances found in a circus; from trick riding and roping to elephants and their trainers (1927 Show Roster, 2013). The 101 Ranch Wild West Show traveled the world and many people got to bask in its glory during its hay day. The show was a masterpiece put together by visionaries and it brought many people jobs and even stardom. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show was great in part to performers like Will Rogers and Bill Pickett. Will Rogers was born on the 4th of November in 1879 (Biography, 2013), in the area that is now Oologah, Oklahoma. He was part Indian descending from the Cherokee tribe (Rodeo Star, 2013). Will Rogers...
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...Taylor relates incidences in Tad’s background, that shaped Tad’s ambition and aspirations that helped established her as an icon for women, not only in the world of rodeo but also for women in all walks of life in that era. In paragraph one Lonn Taylor writes, “She was born in Cody, Nebraska in 1902, she later settled in Fort Worth and considered herself a Texan.” When reading this article, there is an understanding of Tad’s life and how it was shaped from the different places she explored as she competed in rodeo events. Paragraph five of the article shows us how she started out in the rodeo circuit. Taylor states, “Tad Lucas was a cowgirl’s cowgirl. She left Nebraska at the age of sixteen and joined “California” Frank Hafley’s Wild West Show…. First [appearing] on the Western rodeo circuit in 1922, winning prizes at Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Pittsburg, Kansas; and Fort Worth.” It is obvious that being a cowgirl was important to Tad and she poured a great deal of energy and enthusiasm into the sport. Mr. Taylor provides us with information on the golden age of rodeo where Tad Lucas earned her fame. Taylor tells us, “ in the twenties and thirties, she was one of the most...
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...Kody Miller 11/4/14 Rough draft The Wild West was a wild place full of many gunslingers that may have helped form the west. With the west being a wild and dangerous place there were many people that were involved in shaping the west, but mainly Doc Holliday was a huge contributor to the formation of the west. Doc Holliday’s life in the west and his parents and their occupations and Holliday’s occupations threw out his life. The early life of Doc was very interesting and he helped shape the west. Holliday was born August 14, 1851. He was a dentist by trade. He was born with a cleft palate, and he had to have corrective surgery. Holliday moved away for a while but then he moved back to the south to begin his dental career. But at age 23 he fled to Dallas, Texas....
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...The Buffalo Soldiers were free slaves and they found in the American war. They formed on September 21, 1866 and in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. No one knows how the Buffalo Soldiers got its name. They say that the Indians gave the name, but no one knows for sure. Their goal was to protect settlers when they traveled west, for freedom, for their beliefs, and wanted to gain respect. The Buffalo Soldiers usually camped near Pine Springs and Choza Springs. The Buffalo Soldiers fought in American Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Border War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. They fought for freedom. The Buffalo Soldiers could join for 5 years and they were paid 13 dollars each month. The Buffalo Soldiers wanted...
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...Compare the ways poets present feelings in ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘Sonnet 43’. In ‘Quickdraw’, Duffy writes a Wild West themed poem for her ex-lover about the resentment and pain she feels as a result of the negatively described relationship. In ‘Sonnet 43’, however, Barrett Browning writes a heartfelt Petrarchan love sonnet for her fiancée in which she “counts the ways” she loves him. In the way they describe love, there is a drastic contrast between the two poems. Both Barrett Browning and Duffy exaggerate their feelings in the two poems. Duffy presents her feelings of emotional pain as physical pain in her poem 'Quickdraw' as she says that her lover has "wounded" her. She also uses onomatopoeia when she says "blast me through the heart". This emphasises the amount that her lover has hurt her; the word "blast" also creates the image of Duffy's heart being injured by a powerful weapon at the hands of her partner. This idea also links with some of the vocabulary used, such as: "guns", "trigger" and "bullets" which adds to the Wild West theme. Barrett Browning has a different opinion on love as she presents her ideas in 'Sonnet 43'. She is overwhelmed with her love for her fiancé which is conveyed as she repeats the phrase "I love thee" on almost every line throughout the poem. In addition, her overwhelming love is shown through the lack of full stops in the poem which makes her feeling sound rushed and excited. This is a very different outlook...
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...carefully crafted with great skill and vision by an Australian golf architect, Ross C. Watson. In the same time, the massive project of constructing Villas, Condos and Hotel begun. The Villas was aspired by the architecture from foreign land where each unit of the Villa are equips with a private swimming pool. In the year of 1996, A’Famosa Resort introduced its very first Theme Park; Water World. The wet park was the visionary of the founder to have a place for family to have fun. The park makes it debut with its 7 storey high slide. A’Famosa Resort had open its gates for million of visitors to the resort ever since then. Year 2001 marks the date for the opening of Animal World Safari. The animal sanctuary was build on a 150-acres land where animals can roam freely. The concept was to build an animal kingdom where visitors will need to hoop on a truck to venture in to the Safari. One year soon after that, year 2002 A’Famosa Resort introduced its another new attraction which was the Cowboy Town. Live up by its name, the Cowboy Town was the visionary of the founder to relive the era of the Wild Wild West. The daily fireworks during its Carnival had been a normality for the locals. Up to today, A’Famosa Resort is known as a holiday destination; a must-place-to visit in Malacca. Visitors had been...
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...them, Ondaatje goes on to describe in the next chapter how distressed he is over losing his bar of soap to a val oora, or a wild boar. He writes, “This thing has walked off with my bar of Pears Transparent Soap? Why not my copy of Rumi poetry? Or Merwin translations? That soap was aristocratic and kept me feeling good all through the filthy hotels of Africa” (143), showing that the bar of soap was highly valued. There are a number of different interpretations of this contrast – one of them is that Ondaatje had brought this soap all around the world with him, showing it to be almost an extension of his self, only to lose it in the Ceylon jungle shows how there will always be a part of Ondaatje left in or stolen by Ceylon. This ties in with the theme of the quest for personal identity, as it illustrates the impact Ceylon still has on even a westernized Ondaatje, and questions how much the author belongs to both the East and the West. Alternatively, Ondaatje’s longing for this aristocratic soap which in some respects suggests a taste for home may imply that there is a part of him now that is irremediably Westernised suggesting that he will never be fully Ceylonese. One of the key symbols in this section is the wild boar that Ondaatje sees while showering in the rain. Ondaatje clearly feels a close connection with the animal, describing it at points as “My wild pig. The repulsively exotic creature in his thick black body and the ridge of non-symmetrical hair running down his back”...
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...The resort is a one-stop venue for business and pleasure, it boasts an international championship golf course, designed by renowned Australia golf course architect Ross C. Watson, the Water World Theme Park, Animal World Safari, Cowboy Town, Resort Hotel, Condotel and Villas. The Resort, founded in the year 1992 had come a very long way into making the place as a venue for everyone. The vision is to build a hidden paradise to avoid the busy sounds of the city. Construction of the Resort began with a massive land fills and grass planting for the Golf Course. In the same time, villas and properties begin its development phase by phase. The first theme park ever constructed on the land was Water World. Completed its construction in the year 1996, A’Famosa Resort had opened its gates to millions of visitor to the resort ever since. The next attraction completed in the year of 2001 which was the Animal World Safari. The Safari was one of its kind back then where the concept of animals roaming freely and talented animals performing tricks became one of the regions “a must-to-visit.” One year later, in 2002 A’Famosa Resort introduced another attraction which was the Cowboy Town. Live up by its name, the Cowboy Town was the visionary of the founder to relive the era of the Wild Wild West. With the entire establishment, one can visit to the Resort with so many purposes. Be it for a family gathering, a school camping, a...
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...first glance, would be correct to assume so: John Wayne, a gun fight, and a setting of the western territories. At further watchings, however, one can clearly see that The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is lacks the devices defining a film as a western, and shows the death of the “John Ford Western”: this is shown through the setting, the shots, and the overall plot and theme of the film. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is about Ransom...
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...Margarita Ramirez Dr. Jeff Bohn English 103 November 3, 2015 The wild wild west holds its name of being so “wild” by being the focal point in which the beginning of american social issues and history occurred. Having been of a time of rapid industrialization and civilization growth, issues that were seen during the decades of western times and films were the strong influence wealth took on, relations with the law and those who enforced it, and divisions of power within american cultures. It is within the roots of western stories that character positions such as the outlaw hero and the official hero were born. In the film Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino (2012), issues of slavery, race, and the differences of power between social classes were the main topics of the motion picture. The setting of the film occurs during the year 1858, a time in where western issues were quickly evolving. Django takes on the role of the protagonist who goes against the social norms of what is expected from a negro man. He joins a german bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz who takes Django under his wing and joins him in efforts of securing the whereabouts of Django's wife, Broomhilda. His biggest obstacle is going against a house slave named Stephen. Stephen consistently tries to get in the the way of Django’s main objective of retrieving his wife, whom was sold as property to Stephen’s owner Calvin Candie. Throughout the film, issues witnessed are battles of what is right and wrong but...
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