Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East (Show)

found: NUCMC data from NJ Hist. Soc. for Cooke, L.E. Scrapbook, 1882-1923(name not given; Pawnee Bill's Wild West; Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show)

found: Shirley, G. Pawnee Bill, 1958(Pawnee Bill's Wild West; show assembled by G.W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) in 1888; in 1889 reorg. as Pawnee Bill's Historical Wild West, Indian Museum and Encampment; travelled throughout US & Europe; in 1906 reorg. as Pawnee Bill's Great Far East; in 1908 Lillie bought interest in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and in 1909 combined to become Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East; bankrupt in 1913)

found: Buffalo Bill Cody, 2020:CIP galley (In 1909, the men joined forces; No longer was Cody's exhibition called “Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World;” The new title of the men's merged operation was “Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East Combined”[no publication in LC])

found: National Museum of American History website viewed January 25, 2024:Collections/Buffalo Bill's Wild West combined with Pawnee Bill's Great Far East (By the early twentieth century, Buffalo Bill's heroic image had been tarnished by a scandalous divorce trial, and his show faced growing competition from the fledgling film industry; In 1909 he merged with a former rival, Gordon William Lillie, to create Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East) - https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_600467