[WILD WEST SHOWS "“ FRANCE]. Archive of 11 silver
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[WILD WEST SHOWS "“ FRANCE]. Archive of 11 silver gelatin photographs of Col. Cy Compton's Wild West Rodeo. Paris: Derumaux, ca 1920s.
6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. silver gelatin photographs.
Candid images capture the Wild West spectacular with dozens of mounted performers in action, teams of horses pulling stagecoaches, tipi villages, and Native American performers.
[With:] Stade Velodrome Buffalo. Wild West Rodeo du Colonel Cy Compton. Paris: [Impremerie Astra], [between 1925 and 1935?]. 8vo. Photographic plates. (Minor toning to edges). Original publisher's mauve wrappers (rear wrapper missing).
Colonel Compton (d. 1944) joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a young person and toured the United States and Europe before headlining his own show, and later becoming the head cowboy at the Wild West show for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. A 1939 Grotto Rodeo program in Rochester, NY in which Compton performed notes, "Colonel Cy Compton, of Cody, Wyoming, known far and wide as "The Grand Old Man of the West," would be "catching a dozen horses and riders in one loop of his lasso."
6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. silver gelatin photographs.
Candid images capture the Wild West spectacular with dozens of mounted performers in action, teams of horses pulling stagecoaches, tipi villages, and Native American performers.
[With:] Stade Velodrome Buffalo. Wild West Rodeo du Colonel Cy Compton. Paris: [Impremerie Astra], [between 1925 and 1935?]. 8vo. Photographic plates. (Minor toning to edges). Original publisher's mauve wrappers (rear wrapper missing).
Colonel Compton (d. 1944) joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a young person and toured the United States and Europe before headlining his own show, and later becoming the head cowboy at the Wild West show for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. A 1939 Grotto Rodeo program in Rochester, NY in which Compton performed notes, "Colonel Cy Compton, of Cody, Wyoming, known far and wide as "The Grand Old Man of the West," would be "catching a dozen horses and riders in one loop of his lasso."
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[WILD WEST SHOWS "“ FRANCE]. Archive of 11 silver
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