Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942

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Artist's full color portrait of Major Gordon W. Lillie "Pawnee Bill", pictured in profile and dressed in full costume.

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A man on mounted on a hourse, both facing right. The horse stands in the middle of a road with a picket fence behind it.

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Framed studio portrait featuring Pawnee Bill as a younger man, pictured standing and dressed in full costume.

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A notice (probably 1886 or 1887) written on the letterhead of "Pawnee Bill's Oklahoma Colonization Company" is directed to "city and county papers" telling them that 2500 to 5000 people are ready to come into Oklahoma, but have been frightened by false reports that soldiers are waiting to keep them out. A letter to 'Friend Engles" says he considers Dr. Carver the "greatest all around shot that America ever produced."

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Consists of business correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Included in the collection are documents relating to Pawnee Bill's (Gordon W. Lillie) Old Town and Great Far East Show, a proposed radio program, "The Last of the Frontier Scouts," and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the File: An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...

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Studio portrait featuring Pawnee Bill in profile as a younger man, wearing hat, tie, vest and coat.