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Perhaps the most unique feature of the patriotic 2-hour presentation is the Original Wild West Revue notably because, not since the 1940s, has a major entertainer toured with such an aggregation of mounted western performers.

Col. William F. Cody, famous on both sides of the Atlantic as Buffalo Bill, realized that the American West was populated with dramatic and colorful characters and it was his vision to present a pageant that would showcase our vanishing frontier. First presented in Omaha in 1883, Wild West audiences thrilled to such scenes as an ambush on the Deadwood Stagecoach, the marksmanship of Annie Oakley and, above all, the dynamic presence of Buffalo Bill Himself.

Brian Downes, a member of the Showmen's League of America, the Wild West Arts Club and the John Wayne Centennial Committee, has assembled a cast of top-notch re-enactors and skilled professionals who pay faithful homage to Cody's horseback extravaganzas of 100 years ago.

Presented with an unerring eye towards historical accuracy, the thundering action features mounted cowboys and cowgirls, resplendent cavalrymen, Annie Oakley and, from the Congress of Rough Riders of the World, the exciting horsemanship of Cossack Ivan the Black…and, of course, the Prince of the Plains, Buffalo Bill! Also showcased are nationally famous trick riders, lariat artists, a stampeding stagecoach and loads of gallop and gunfire, all accompanied by a loud and lively Wild West brass band performing vintage tunes well-known to audiences of Buffalo Bill's day.

The only entertainment combination of its kind, the spectacle provides as rollicking an Old West adventure as modern-day audiences will ever encounter.

ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
       PERFORMED BY AMERICUS BRASS BAND