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# Where Buffalo Bill Roamed
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/where-buffalo-bill-roamed-4cdwi1/
- Published: 2024-04-30T20:30:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:09:25.000Z
- Description: The frontier Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, started a trend with Wild West shows.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 9, Episode 4, #ZZZ_Episode_329f5fc6-523f-4271-a18c-8df0325a5a6a, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

The frontier Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody, started a trend with Wild West shows – and Seattle was an eager audience. Audiences for Wild West shows were steeped in the mythology of the old West, but performers were presented as “authentic” cowboys, Native people, soldiers and others reenacting a pageant of Manifest Destiny.