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  2. Wild West shows - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Western films before 1920 - Wikipedia

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    The performers in each film were members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill themselves exhibiting their rifle shooting skills. [1] The two dances featured members of the Sioux nation who are believed to have been the first Native Americans to perform on film. The lasso thrower was Vicente Oropeza and the ...

  4. The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent Western action film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam train at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals.

  5. Tom Mix - Wikipedia

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    Outdoor action sequences for the production were filmed primarily on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, on the outskirts of Los Angeles. The site was known for its huge sandstone boulders, and one of them later became known as "Tom Mix Rock" when it was discovered it had been used in The Miracle Rider .

  6. Lists of Western films - Wikipedia

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    Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes, [1] reflecting the amount of film that could be wound onto a standard reel for projection, hence the term. Edwin S. Porter was a former projectionist and exhibitor who had taken charge of motion-picture production at Thomas Edison 's company in 1901 .

  7. List of Wild West shows - Wikipedia

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    Hardwick's "Great Rocky Mountain Wild West Show" (1884) Irwin & Hirsig Wild West (1910) Irwin Brothers Cheyenne Frontier Days Wild West Show (1913–1917) [1] Jack King's Wild West Rodeo; Jones Bros.' Buffalo Ranch Wild West (1910) L. O. Hillman's Wild West Aggregation]] (1900–1920) Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Real Wild West (1907–1916 & 1925 ...

  8. Western film - Wikipedia

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    Western films derive from the Wild West shows that began in the 1870s. [3]: 48 Originally referred to as "Wild West dramas", the shortened term "Western" came to describe the genre. [4] Although other Western films were made earlier, The Great Train Robbery (1903) is often considered to mark the beginning of the genre.

  9. Category:Films set in the American frontier - Wikipedia

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    Films about Wild West shows (6 P) A. Animated films set in the American frontier (7 P) B. Biographical films about people of the American Old West (3 C, 14 P)