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The James–Younger Gang commits the first train robbery in the history of the West by derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Line west of Adair, Iowa and stealing $3,000 from the express safe and passengers on board. [149] Dec "My Western Home", a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, is first published in an issue of the Smith County Pioneer.
Ten years after the series was cancelled a made-for-television revival movie, The Wild Wild West Revisited, aired and was successful enough to warrant a follow-up entitled More Wild Wild West (1980), thus bringing the total number of episodes up to 106. However, the movie was more campy compared to the serious tone of the television series.
This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; death tolls may be approximate.. For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List of rampage killers in the United States, Mass shootings in the United States, Category:Spree shootings in the United States, and Category:Mass shootings in the United States by year
The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few ...
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( April 2015 ) The following list of cowboys and cowgirls from the frontier era of the American Old West ( circa 1830 to 1910) was compiled to show examples of the cowboy and cowgirl genre.
The following is a list of Wild West shows: Allen Bros. Wild West (1929–1934) – Charles and Mert H. Allen; Arlington & Beckman's Oklahoma Ranch Wild West (1913) – Edward Arlington and Fred Beckman; A. S. Lewis Big Shows (1910) Austin Bros. 3 Ring Circus and Real Wild West (1945) Barrett Shows and Oklahoma Bill's Wild West (1920)
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In 1883, Buffalo Bill's Wild West was founded in Omaha, Nebraska when Buffalo Bill Cody turned his real life adventure into the first outdoor western show. [8] The show's publicist Arizona John Burke employed innovative techniques at the time, such as celebrity endorsements, press kits, publicity stunts, op-ed articles, billboards and product licensing, that contributed to the success and ...