Date:1913 - 1919 (c.)
Description:This studio portrait of two Native Americans with their horses, taken by C.E. Fowke of Stafford, is believed to show participants from Broncho Bill's Wild West Show Exhibition and Mammoth Circus which visited Stone Flat on Stafford Common on 1 May 1913 and then again on 24 March 1919. The show advertised 'The Real Thing, Cowboys and Cowgirls, Indians, Prairie Mustangs'. Broncho Bill was actually John Swallow, a travelling circus proprietor from Wolverhampton. Wild West Shows were a very popular form of travelling variety show from the late 19th century until around 1920. The earliest and best known was William F. Cody's Buffalo Bill's Wild West show which first visited the United Kingdom in 1887, and then again in 1891-92 and 1902-04. There were soon many imitators, including John Swallow who toured Britain between 1912 and 1930. Reproduced by Kind Permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who retain copyright.
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