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Visitors to this site will probably also be interested in the following related and recommended links.
Top of the list has to be that Mecca for Buffalo Bill-ologists everywhere, the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.
The SNBBA is proud to support The Papers of William F. Cody.
This important project, which is intended to create an extensive archive of primary source materials on the life and times of
Buffalo Bill, is being conducted by the BBHC in partnership with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
A special mention also goes to Riva
Productions for their work on the subject.
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Stunning video clips taken from the archives of the Library of Congress,
based on very early film footage by Thomas Alva Edison of performers in the Wild West show in 1894, and including Lakota warriors performing what is billed - erroneously - as a 'ghost dance', can be viewed at the
Amazing
Americans site.
Further surprising transatlantic connections can be discovered at The Diamond's Ace - Scotland and the Native Americans.
The forum provided by Diane Merkel's
Little Bighorn History Alliance site is truly awesome, by far the best I have seen. There is a great deal of
expert discussion - accompanied by an awesome selection of photographs - of direct relevance to
Buffalo Bill's Wild West during this period.
Denver Public Library's Western History and Genealogy collection is an excellent source of photographic material, as is the Library of Congress.
Images can also be found on the following auction sites:
Heritage Auction Galleries
Cowan's Auctions
A wealth of contemporary newspaper articles about Buffalo Bill and related subjects may be located in the
following online archives:
The British Newspaper Archive
Gale Digital Collections
New York Times
The Stage
For an overview of east-end Glasgow lore and culture, you will not improve upon the
Glesga Keelies message board.
Check out the Pony Express site maintained by enthusiast Tom Crews.
A fact which is fast emerging into the wider consciousness is that those 'Cossacks' who famously performed with the Wild West from 1892 onwards, and took Scotland by storm in 1904, were not Cossacks at all, but Georgians.
For further information and links on the Buffalo Bill phenomenon, visit the International Cody Family Association's extensive and well constructed site.
Check out the combined pages of the
English Westerners' Society, the Custer Association of Great Britain and
Westerners Publications Ltd.
This site was created and is maintained by Tom F. Cunningham.