Welcome to the  
 Scottish National Buffalo Bill Archive, 
 devoted to telling the story of the visits of 
 Buffalo Bill's Wild West 
 to Scotland 

Iron Tail, 1904

'Your Fathers the Ghosts' -
Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Scotland by Tom F. Cunningham

Hostiles? The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Sam A. Maddra - REVIEW

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FULL CIRCLE - Glasgow Museums are to hold a one-day seminar at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on Saturday, the 1st of August 2009, to mark the tenth anniversary of the repatriation of the Lakota ghost shirt to South Dakota. A limited number of free places are available. Tom F. Cunningham, the author of Your Fathers the Ghosts, will be among the guest speakers.


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This site is solemnly and respectfully dedicated to the memories of Kicking Bear, Short Bull, Lone Bull, No Neck, Charging Thunder, Charging Crow, Revenge, High Bear, Calls the Name, Johnny Burke No Neck, Iron Tail, Philip Blue Shield, Sam Lone Bear, Little Bear, and all the other Lakota men, women and children from Pine Ridge agency and elsewhere who are known to have sojourned in Scotland, as our forefathers' honoured guests, while they were members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West entourage. Also to the memory of Black Elk, who is believed to have visited Edinburgh with Mexican Joe in May - June 1889.


Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Scotland