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Wild West Shows

The tradition continues. Trick roper Cleve LaFranier, Tse-Tsehése-stahase, Lame Deer, Montana, 199
. Cleve's grandfather, George Highwalking, Sr., was the National Indian Trick Roping and Trick Riding champion in 1936.
Photograph by Morgan Baillargeon, CMC 96-699
Broncho Bill, cowboy interpreter of the Sioux, and his family, Buffalo Bill's Wild West, c. 1890.
Many former military men, scouts and cowboys of non-Native origin, as well as their Native families, found employment in Wild West shows.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center P.6.198

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