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Buffalo Bill Dam

It is named after the famous Wild West figure William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who founded the nearby town of Cody and owned much of the land now covered by the reservoir formed by its construction.

Carson City and Indian Village

Carson City and Indian Village (or simply Carson City) was a road-side Wild West-themed amusement park located in Catskill, NY, approximately 2 miles north of the former Catskill Game Farm on New York State Route 32.

Cheyenne Frontier Days

The CFD features nightly concerts by popular music and comedy acts, a midway, a fair with rides, games, and food vendors, wild west shows featuring Western riding, an Indian village, and a large PRCA/PBR nationally sanctioned rodeo.

Doc Frankenstein

Doc Frankenstein has since been involved in world history (flashbacks show him as a gunslinger in the Wild West, a soldier in World War II, a supporter of the teaching of evolution in 1925's Scopes Trial, and a supporter of Roe v. Wade in 1972).

Heavy Competition

Dwight said under Michael's leadership, the office was like the Roman Empire, the Wild West, war-torn Poland, and Poland all at once.

Hundsdorf

Each year, between Ascension and Whitsun, a Western town is built here in which Western and Indian clubs recreate the atmosphere of the Wild West for a few days under authentic conditions.

Tenra War

The setting is based after the intercontinental war between two continents: Tenra (similar to a high-magic Japan in the Sengoku period) and Terra (similar to a United States in the Wild West).

When She Loved Me

Emily's childhood bedroom is designed with a Wild West-equestrian theme of sorts, with figures of horses, toy guitars, cowhide and plaid patterns, and horseshoes decorating the room.


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American Horse

The Wagluhe were the first Oglala Lakota to send their children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a formal education, and the first to go Wild Westing with Col. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West.

B. Darvill's Wild West Show

Darvill's Wild West Show is the 1999 debut album by Son of Dave.

Bailamos

After the song was chosen to be part of the Wild Wild West soundtrack, a second video was made, directed by Nigel Dick.

Chief Blue Horse

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was part of the celebration during the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in England, and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months.

Clever, Missouri

A series of Chautauqua events over the course of several summers entertained the residents, as did famed showman and Wild West figure WIlliam "Buffalo Bill" Cody in 1913.

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour

The Wild West has revolvers and lever-action rifles and features cowboy Pig Cops, and the Victorian Era has fictional, science-fiction weaponry such as the Voltaic Projector, and zombies.

Elastolin

Hausser had exclusive rights to produce figures for the works of Karl May, a German author whose tales of the American "Wild West" captured the imaginations of several generations of German boys, and so there are plastic figures representing several of May's best-known characters.

Fort Boise

The final "wild west show" scene of the Clint Eastwood movie Bronco Billy was filmed in Fort Boise Park in October 1979.

Frank Lentini

His career spanned over forty years and he worked with every major circus and sideshow including Barnum and Bailey and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Freedom Fry

Following a visit to the grave of Billy the Kid in Fort Sumner, NM the duo began to conceptualize a wild west themed EP.

Hanlon-Lees Action Theater

Originally based in New York City and later Chicago, the company is today headquartered at a private ranch (dubbed the "Wild West Knights' Rest") in Luther, Oklahoma.

Helen Gibson

Helen saw her first Wild West show in Cleveland in the summer of 1909 and answered a Miller Brothers 101 Ranch ad for girl riders in Billboard magazine.

Henryville, Quebec

Henryville is the birthplace of Bat Masterson, a figure from the late 19th century U.S. wild west who became a New York City newspaper columnist during the early 20th century.

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward

Coward began acting in the Wild West amusement park Ghost Town in the Sky in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.

Iron Tail

Bee Ho Gray, the famous Wild West performer, accompanied Chief Iron Tail to act as an interpreter and guide to Washington D.C. and New York where Iron Tail modeled for sculptor James Earle Fraser as he worked on designs for the new Buffalo nickel.

Jesse J

Jesse James, an American outlaw and legendary figure of the Wild West

Lucy Webb Hayes

In the Lucky Luke comic book Sarah Bernhardt, which is set in the late 19th-century Wild West, President Rutherford B. Hayes's wife is portrayed as being one of many who strongly disapproves of the titular actress's tour of the United States, given her reputation for loose morality.

Madhav Sharma

Films include Entrapment, Such a Long Journey, The Gathering, Shadey, The Blue Tower, Wild West, Innocents, The Awakening, It's a Wonderful Afterlife and East is East.

Miller Brothers 101 Ranch

Later in 1907, the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show began the tour circuit in Brighton Beach, New York.

Milton S. Gould

In 1985 Gould's book "A Cast of Hawks" (Copley, 1985) ISBN 0-913938-28-9 was published which dealt with the background of the United States Supreme Court case In re Neagle that he termed "A Rowdy Tale of Scandal and Power Politics in Early San Francisco" from the gold rush of 1849, the debate in California about being a slave holding state in the 1850s and the wild west until the end of the century.

Piedmont Park

Attractions included Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, the Liberty Bell, and the first public demonstration of C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat's motion picture projection device which they called the Phantoscope.

Ride in the Whirlwind

Both films are considered acid westerns that express a rather bleak, minimalist quality that does not sentimentalize the Wild West.

Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman

The story (narrated by Terence McGovern) is notable for its mix of both eastern and western idiosyncrasy, most notably in the protagonist Zan (voiced by Greg Weber), who has traits of both a Japanese samurai and a Wild West gunslinger.

Shaolin Kung Fu

The 1970s television series Kung Fu starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk on the run in the Wild West whose Zen (Ch'an) training is tested along his journey.

SRL Southwest Tour

When NASCAR eliminated the Elite Division at the end of the 2006 season, former IRL driver Davey Hamilton's SRL sanctioning body gave the former NASCAR Southwest Tour teams in the Southwest a series to race, under the SRL Wild West Shootout name.

Streets of Bakersfield

Actor and comedian Vince Vaughn sang the song live with Dwight Yoakam to a live audience in Bakersfield, California on his Wild West Comedy Tour.

Teen Trends

When the Bratz Wild Wild West line was created MGA Entertainment released a doll named Kiana, Mattel's doll, Kianna, had a totally different personality.

The Rubber Band

In Silver City, Nevada during the days of the Wild West, a group of men calling themselves the Rubber Band—among them Walsh, Scovil and the fathers of Clara and Hilda—helped the Marquis, then called George Rowley, escape a lynching in return for a share of the Marquis’ substantial inheritance.

The Wreckers

"My, Oh My", was the second single from Stand Still, Look Pretty, and its Wild West-themed video was filmed on the Wild West stage at Universal Studios.

Tommy Sparks

He co-wrote The Prodigy song "Wild West" featured on the bonus disc for Invaders Must Die.

West Brompton

They were touring Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at the time of their deaths in 1887.