"Your Gun (Original London Cast Recording) or Annie Get Your Gun: Original London Cast Recording. It is Quatro's ninth studio album. The musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"" is based on a book of the same name, written by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. The story covers Oakley's romance with Butler while they were exhibition shooters in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. In real life, Butler became Oakley's manager when she became the star attraction in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Oakley then became the first American female superstar. On 12 April 1982 Quatro appeared in a BBC television program called ""An"
"Butler in a 1966 Lincoln Center revival, with Ethel Merman again as Annie Oakley. Tom Wopat played the role of Butler in the 1999 Broadway revival. In 1957, a television production starring Mary Martin and John Raitt was broadcast on NBC. Frank E. Butler Francis E. Butler (January 30, 1847 (baptized)November 21, 1926) was an Irish American marksman who performed in Wild West variety shows. He was married to sharpshooter Annie Oakley, and while his birth date is listed on his and Oakley's U.S. passport application as February 25, 1852, the obituary for Butler posted by the Associated Press in"
"Major Gordon W. Lillie, who performed as Pawnee Bill, motivated the Millers to produce a Wild West Show of their own. The Millers made their transition from putting on local shows to the national scene in 1907, when they performed at the Jamestown Exposition in Virginia. Later in 1907, the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show began the tour circuit in Brighton Beach, New York. Joe Miller, the eldest son, was an exceptional equestrian and star performer. Over the course of the show's history, its cast included Lillian Smith, Bill Picket, Bessie Herberg, Bee Ho Gray, Tom Mix, Jack"
"Bogardus, Buck Taylor, Ralph and Nan Lohse, Antonio Esquibel, Capt. Waterman and his Trained Buffalo, and Johnny Baker. Johnny Baker was nicknamed the ""Cowboy Kid"" and considered to be Annie Oakley's boy counterpart. Some notable cowboys who participated in the events were Buck Taylor (dubbed ""The First Cowboy King""), Bronco Bill, James Lawson (""The Roper""), Bill Bullock, Tim Clayton, Coyote Bill, and Bridle Bill. Women were also a large part of Wild West shows and attracted many spectators. One such performer was Annie Oakley who first gained recognition as a sharpshooter when she defeated Frank Butler, a pro marksman at"
"West Shows and Fourth of July celebrations with Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, and other charismatic stars lending their glamour and prestige to the spectacle. Oakley was a sharpshooter in Cody's Wild West show (rather than as a rodeo performer), but she created the image of the cowgirl and appeared as the first cowgirl in a western film shot by Thomas Alva Edison in 1894. In the early decades of the twentieth century, rodeo became a spectator sport with round ups, frontier days, and other themed exhibitions attracting regional audiences. In the 1920s, Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden drew"
"living with his mother, H. Campbell in Burlington, Iowa. By 1905, ""Charles E. Gent"" was a ""widower"" living in Des Moines, Iowa. When Pawnee Bill's Historical Wild West Indian Museum and Encampment Show came to town in the early 1900s, Elba Mae Ghent joined the show, starting her performing career that spanned over four decades (1901-1940). As ""Mamie Francis,"" she became known for her courage, skill, and beauty, entertaining untold numbers of Americans during the heydays of the Wild West Shows and rodeos of the early 20th century. What began in the mid-1830s with George Catlin's western art and lectures"
"1983 for her accomplishments as a star in the Wild West Shows and rodeos. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring and celebrating women, past and present, ""whose lives exemplify the courage, resilience and independence that helped shape the American West."" As entertainers, champion competitors, and ranchers, Mamie Francis and her daughter, Reine Shelton, were both considered well-qualified for the honor. Mamie Francis Hafley Mamie Francis Hafley (1885-1950), born Elba Mae Ghent, was a performer in Wild West Shows and rodeos from about 1901 until 1940. She was famous"
"the American frontier pushed West, but ""cowboying"" as a profession was primarily the job of men and paying jobs in the field were essentially non-existent for women. Women were hired as mounted pistol shooters and as trick and stunt horsewomen in Wild West shows of the late 19th century. In 1885, Annie Oakley was hired by Buffalo Bill Cody as a sharpshooter in his Wild West show, but later helped created the iconic image of the cowgirl when she appeared in a western film shot by Thomas Alva Edison in 1894. In 1903, women began competing at the Cheyenne Frontier"
"""Pawnee Bill’s Historic Wild West"". May starred in the show as the ""Champion Girl Horseback Shot of the West."" Their first season was a financial disaster. They re-organized as a smaller operation called ""Pawnee Bill’s Historical Wild West Indian Museum and Encampment Show."" That show was popular and financially successful. Lillie added Jose Barrera to the cast; he was widely popular performing as ""Mexican Joe"". In 1907, Lillie hired performers from a variety of backgrounds. The show included Mexican cowboys, Pawnee, Japanese performers, and Arab jugglers. The ensemble debuted as ""Pawnee Bill’s Great Far East Show."" In 1908, Pawnee Bill"
"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;Cincinnati, Ohio; and Indianapolis, Indiana; the Majestic Theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan; the Alabama State Fair; the King's Highway Carnival in Omaha, Nebraska (and many more). According to the 1910 Federal Census for Knoxville, Tennessee, twenty people were traveling with the show. For the ""Wild West Show,"" occupations listed were: Showman, High Diver, Nurse, trainer, bugler, marksman, roper, rider, musician, talker, cook, labor(ers), and gunner. By the end of 1910, Princess Wenona, Ada Sommerville and Bee Ho Gray had left the show (they may have gone back to the Millers Brother's 101 Ranch and did not return to"
"would never walk again. She did recover and continued performing later. The incident put the show out of business for a while, and this disruption may have led to its eventual demise. In 1908, Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill joined forces and created the ""Two Bills"" show. That show was foreclosed on when it was playing in Denver, Colorado. ""Buffalo Bill's Wild West"" toured Europe eight times, the first four tours between 1887 and 1892, and the last four from 1902 to 1906. The ""Wild West"" first went to London in 1887 as part of the American Exhibition, which coincided"
"dressed in ""exploitative"", nontraditional clothing such as men's headdresses and breastplates, combined with immodest attire like leather shorts, none of which would have ever been worn in reality. They also performed what was billed as ""the Sioux Ghost Dance"". In reality, the Ghost Dance is a ceremony meant to kill all the white people or drive them back to Europe, but what was performed in the show was not this ceremony. Chief Sitting Bull joined Cody's Wild West show for a short time and was a star attraction alongside Annie Oakley. During his time at the show, Sitting Bull was"
"Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian Institution preserves and displays Gertrude Käsebier's photographs, as well as many others by photographers who captured the displays of Wild Westing. Wild Westing Wild Westing was the term used by Native Americans for their performing with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and similar shows. Between 1887 and World War I, over 1,000 Native Americans went ""Wild Westing."" Most were Oglala Lakota (""Oskate Wicasa"") from their reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, the first Lakota people to perform in these shows. During a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was intent"
"England, on March 31, 1887. On the steam ship ""State of Nebraska,"" the show's entourage included eighty-three saloon passengers, thirty-eight steerage passengers, ninety-seven Indians, eighteen buffaloes, two deer, ten elk, ten mules, five Texas steers, four donkeys, and one-hundred and eight horses. The show was part of the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months. The show returned to Europe in 1889-1890 where it visited England, France, Italy, and Germany. In 1893 at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, William F. Cody and other Wild West show promoters brought"
"was terribly insensitive...to Indians... But it had to be dealt with in a way that was heartfelt and not obvious... In this case, it was with the permission of the heirs. They're terribly pleased with it."" Stone also altered the structure of the musical, beginning it with ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" and presenting the musical as a ""show within a show"". When the traveling Buffalo Bill's Wild West show visits Cincinnati, Ohio (""Colonel Buffalo Bill""§), Frank Butler, the show's handsome, womanizing star (""I'm a Bad, Bad, Man""§), challenges anyone in town to a shooting match. Foster Wilson, a"
"educating audiences about Indians and the American West, developed into ""Wild West"" traveling vaudeville performances featuring cowboys and Indians by the 1880s. Buffalo Bill's wild West and others became the most popular form of entertainment in America and remained so until movies gained prominence in the 1930s. The shows went beyond the cowboy sport of rodeo in an effort to preserve a romanticized view of the American West and to entertain those in the East (and later in Europe) who were fascinated with the disappearing frontier of the United States. One of the contemporaries of Buffalo Bill was Gordon Lillie,"
"to performing between 1911–1913, this time with Vernon Seaver's ""Young Buffalo Show"", with Butler again as her manager. Butler also worked as a representative of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company and as a salesman for the Remington Arms Company. After they retired, Frank Butler and Annie Oakley Butler had brief residencies in New York City and Nutley, New Jersey, as well as Cambridge, Maryland, and Pinehurst, North Carolina, before returning to Ohio. Their house in Cambridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Annie died on November 3, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio. One biographer reported that Butler stopped"
"the tent shows. These shows had many different kinds of acts that centered around ""cowboys and Indians"". The Wild West shows basically created an ""American folklore"", heroizing the cowboy and exploiting the exoticism of the Native Americans. Buffalo Bill Cody was one of the most famous Wild West show owners. The musical ""Annie Get Your Gun"" was later inspired by his work. The Wild West shows included cheap thrills with gun shows and even animal exhibitions. Unlike the other styles which were obviously spectacle and performance-centric mediums, circuit Chautauqua marketed itself as an educational week for local towns. ""Although Chautauqua"
"1871, which would coincide with the time period of the previously mentioned sources. Lillian Smith (trick shooter) Lillian Frances Smith (August 4, 1871 – February 3, 1930) was a young trick shooter and trick rider who joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1886, at the age of fifteen. She was billed as ""the champion California huntress,"" and was a direct rival to Annie Oakley in the show. Lillian Frances Smith was born in 1871 in Coleville, California to Levi Woodbury Smith, Jr. and Rebecca T. Robinson, the third of four children. Her parents were originally from Massachusetts and moved"
"1920 and 1930s (competing with and beating the men in certain rodeo events). After Harry Skepper had left Mamie and Reine on their own, Charles Francis Hafley and his wife, Lillian Smith (who had both performed in the Pan—American Exposition, with Cummins' Indian Congress, with Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill), asked Mamie Francis to join their venture called ""California Frank's Wild West"" in 1905. Lillian, a former competitor of Annie Oakley, and C.F. Hafley, a former sheriff, were renowned sharpshooters. They apparently thought this teenage mother, with her shooting and riding skills, would be a nice addition to their group"
"Joe"" Hoyt. The 101 Ranch Wild West Show featuring African Americans such as Bill Pickett, the famous bulldogger and his brother Voter Hall who billed as a ""Feejee Indian from Africa"". The Esquivel Brothers from San Antonio. Wild West shows contained as many as 1,200 performers at one time (cowboys, scouts, Indians, military, Mexicans, and men from other heritages), and a large number of many animals including buffalo and Texas Longhorns. Some of the recognizably famous men who took part in the show were Will Rogers, Tom Mix, Pawnee Bill, James Lawson, Bill Pickett, Jess Willard, Mexican Joe, Capt. Adam"
"to New Orleans, many ex-soldiers joined popular Wild West Shows, most notably Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The show wintered in New Orleans from 1884 to 1885 and was hailed by the ""Daily Picayune"" as ""the people's choice"". There was at least one black cowboy in the show, and numerous black cowhands. On Mardi Gras in 1885, fifty to sixty Plains Indians marched in native dress on the streets of New Orleans. Later that year, the first Mardi Gras Indian gang was formed; the tribe was named ""The Creole Wild West"" and was most likely composed of members of Buffalo"
"Hoxie, Mexican Joe, Ross Hettan, and an elderly Buffalo Bill. The Miller brothers came late into Wild West Show business and suffered financially along with the other shows after the invention of motion pictures. Their show had more problems than most in a business that was harsh in the best of times. During their first year on the circuit, they suffered a serious railroad accident. Later several members of their cast contracted typhoid fever. In 1908, when Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill combined their shows into an extravaganza that broke records at Madison Square Gardens in New York City, the"
"skill, staged races, and sideshows. Many historical western figures participated in the show. For example, Sitting Bull appeared with a band of 20 of his braves. Cody's headline performers were well known in their own right. Annie Oakley and her husband, Frank Butler, were sharpshooters, together with the likes of Gabriel Dumont and Lillian Smith. Performers re-enacted the riding of the Pony Express, Indian attacks on wagon trains, and stagecoach robberies. The show was said to end with a re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand, in which Cody portrayed General Custer, but this is more legend than fact. The finale was"
"were part western history, part rodeo, part comedy, and part animal circus - all thrilling to audiences who came for miles to see them. Mamie's high school horse, Napoleon, was a real crowd pleaser. Wild West Shows and rodeos in general were still quite popular, but were experiencing some competition from silent (and later, ""talkie"") movies. The Hafleys kept in touch with other producers and performers (including silent western movie star, Tom Mix) and stayed connected with the Miller Brother's 101 Ranch off and on. In fact, C. F. Hafley was the arena director for the 101 Ranch when Mamie's"
"at the exhibition, where he was exhibiting one of his locomotives. Heineken received the ""Grand Prix"" () at the exposition. Buffalo Bill recruited American sharpshooter Annie Oakley to rejoin his ""Wild West Show"" which performed for packed audiences throughout the Exposition. Other prominent visitors included the Shah of Persia Nasereddin Shah, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) and his wife, Princess Alexandra; artists James McNeill Whistler, Edvard Munch, Rosa Bonheur, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh; U.S. journalist and diplomat Whitelaw Reid; author Henry James; Filipino patriot Jose Rizal; and inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. A central attraction"
"In 1883, he was given the chance to work as the Pawnee interpreter with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. His work with the show was the origin of his nickname as ""Pawnee Bill."" After courting for two years, Lillie married May Manning in 1886, a petite Quaker from Pennsylvania. She was younger than he, a graduate of Smith College, and the daughter of a wealthy Philadelphia physician. Her parents objected at first to their refined young daughter marrying a cowboy, but eventually they agreed to the union. In 1888, the Lillies launched their own Wild West show, which they called"
"Wild Westing Wild Westing was the term used by Native Americans for their performing with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and similar shows. Between 1887 and World War I, over 1,000 Native Americans went ""Wild Westing."" Most were Oglala Lakota (""Oskate Wicasa"") from their reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, the first Lakota people to perform in these shows. During a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was intent on promoting Native assimilation, Col. William Frederick Cody (""Buffalo Bill"") used his influence with U.S. government officials to secure Native American performers for his Wild West. Col. Cody treated Native American"
"Wild West shows Wild West shows were traveling vaudeville performances in the United States and Europe that existed around 1870–1920. The shows began as theatrical stage productions and evolved into open-air shows that depicted romanticized stereotypes of cowboys, Plains Indians, army scouts, outlaws, and wild animals that existed in the American West. While some of the storylines and characters were based on true events, others were fictional or sensationalized. Native Americans in particular were portrayed in a sensationalistic and exploitative manner. The shows introduced many western performers and personalities, and romanticized the American frontier, to a wide audience. In the"
"(1840). In the late 19th century, cowboy and ""Wild West"" imagery entered the collective imagination. The first American female superstar, Annie Oakley, was a sharpshooter who toured the country starting in 1885, performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. The cowboy archetype of individualist hero was established largely by Owen Wister in stories and novels, most notably ""The Virginian"" (1902), following close on the heels of Theodore Roosevelt's ""The Winning of the West"" (1889–1895), a history of the early frontier. Cowboys were also popularized in turn of the 20th century cinema, notably through such early classics as ""The Great Train"
"very beginning. In the first 1883 show in Omaha, Nebraska, six of the twelve performances, including the opening parade, employed Indians. Colonel Cody shifted his hiring to Pine Ridge Agency in 1885 after hiring the famous Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull carried a reputation as the killer of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and as the last Native American to surrender to the government during the American Indian Wars. He joined the show in Buffalo, New York, on June 12, 1885. Although he only toured for one season, Sitting Bull set the course"
"had been baptized into the Catholic Church. James McLaughlin, Indian agent at Standing Rock Agency, dismissed these reports, saying that ""The reported baptism of Sitting-Bull is erroneous. There is no immediate prospect of such ceremony so far as I am aware."" In 1884 show promoter Alvaren Allen asked Agent James McLaughlin to allow Sitting Bull to tour parts of Canada and the northern United States. The show was called the ""Sitting Bull Connection."" It was during this tour that Sitting Bull met Annie Oakley in Minnesota. He was so impressed with Oakley's skills with firearms that he offered $65 (equal"
"Ranch Wild West Show, formed her own troupe in 1913 and performed in many rodeo and Wild West shows throughout her career. She produced her own rodeo in 1916. She retired to her family's ranch in Mulhall around 1922. She was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum into their Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1975, and into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 1977. Mulhall died in Logan County, Oklahoma, in an automobile accident less than a mile from the Mulhall Ranch. Lucille Mulhall Lucille Mulhall (October 21, 1885 – December 21, 1940) was"