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Article: BUFFALO BILL LASSOED EUROPE WITH HIS WILD WEST SHOWS

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May 10, 2006
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Montana State University issued the following press release:

In an era when electricity was a novelty, Buffalo Bill electrified a continent and transmitted a culture, says a Montana State University historian and nominee for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.

"He was immensely popular," Bob Rydell said of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who took his Wild West show to Europe in the late 1800s. Rydell is head of the MSU history department and co-author of "Buffalo Bill in Bologna." The book he wrote with Rob Kroes of the Netherlands was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in history.

Buffalo Bill's show was so spectacular that Queen Victoria made her first public appearance in 25 years to attend, Rydell ...

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