89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)
“I wish to impress upon your minds that what you are about to witness is not a performance in the common sense of the term.” This is the story of the Wild West’s end and the close of the frontier. The West is settled. The buffalo are gone. The US government is seeking to assimilate Native Americans. In this…
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