Traveling Wild West Show.

Traveling Wild West Show.

Traveling Wild West Show.
« on: March 29, 2022, 09:18:28 am »
Large cabinet photograph taken by Charles C. Worden in Providence, R.I. circa 1890s-1900. The view is taken outside of a small, private traveling Wild West Show which was more common in the smaller towns in the East. They entertained the smaller towns and villages that had less chances to see this type of entertainment. This troupe has three covered wagons. Two larger wagons and one little cover wagon pulled by a burrow. You can see people inside of the wagon on the left. Surrounding the wagons are Indians, cowboys, cowgirls, workers, etc. Several of these are mounted on their horses. The left hand larger wagon is pulled by horses. The one on the far right is pulled by oxen. On the far right against the trees are what appear to be townspeople from the local area and some children standing in front of the oxen pulled wagon. People in these villages had very little to entertain them and looked forward to these troupes. It was a rare form of entertainment. As well, these smaller troupes eked out a meager living by traveling from place to place while weather allowed. Mainstream collectors want to emphasize mainly the images of such troupes such as Cody's and Pawnee Bill's. As you can see, I do too but love the images of these smaller troupes that had their part in entertaining the areas that the larger troupes never made it to. They are of great historical importance as well.
« Last Edit: March 29, 2022, 09:22:38 am by Emory Cantey »

Identifier (messages:topics)
 

  Subject Views Last post
2619 Views November 24, 2021, 02:41:35 am
1776 Views October 10, 2019, 04:45:12 pm
1821 Views October 10, 2019, 05:02:41 pm
1737 Views October 10, 2019, 05:05:22 pm
1782 Views October 13, 2019, 09:17:17 am
1893 Views October 13, 2019, 10:05:45 am
1470 Views October 14, 2019, 04:37:33 pm
1513 Views October 14, 2019, 06:54:13 pm
1935 Views October 18, 2019, 05:34:00 pm
1887 Views October 18, 2019, 05:37:05 pm
1877 Views October 26, 2019, 11:34:01 am
1723 Views October 31, 2019, 08:31:32 am
1621 Views November 03, 2019, 08:20:31 am
1599 Views November 03, 2019, 02:52:08 pm
1881 Views November 30, 2019, 06:47:53 pm
1799 Views December 01, 2019, 04:11:14 pm
1713 Views December 01, 2019, 04:35:06 pm
1811 Views December 02, 2019, 11:47:34 am
1526 Views December 04, 2019, 09:59:43 am
1589 Views December 04, 2019, 07:45:43 pm
1602 Views December 05, 2019, 08:23:39 am
1615 Views December 08, 2019, 10:32:24 am
1940 Views December 08, 2019, 04:46:21 pm
1731 Views December 10, 2019, 05:32:50 pm
2018 Views December 13, 2019, 10:21:30 am
1677 Views December 18, 2019, 06:29:25 am
2003 Views December 19, 2019, 05:50:27 pm
1950 Views December 20, 2019, 10:44:45 am
2277 Views December 25, 2019, 08:00:42 pm
1866 Views December 29, 2019, 09:04:28 am
1623 Views December 29, 2019, 09:08:25 am
1957 Views December 29, 2019, 10:58:30 am
1791 Views December 29, 2019, 05:16:17 pm
1771 Views December 29, 2019, 05:31:40 pm
2139 Views December 29, 2019, 05:53:34 pm
2173 Views December 29, 2019, 06:00:04 pm
1600 Views January 03, 2020, 02:28:22 pm
2412 Views February 22, 2020, 05:19:06 pm
2000 Views January 31, 2022, 09:11:59 am
2015 Views February 01, 2022, 11:34:49 am
1806 Views February 06, 2022, 04:55:43 am
1874 Views February 15, 2022, 06:10:46 pm
1948 Views February 15, 2022, 06:19:12 pm
1847 Views February 16, 2022, 06:45:35 pm
2233 Views February 17, 2022, 07:09:06 am
1779 Views February 25, 2022, 10:11:07 am
2247 Views March 03, 2022, 04:04:01 pm
2649 Views March 03, 2022, 04:11:02 pm
5110 Views May 03, 2022, 09:06:57 am
5251 Views May 03, 2022, 03:09:58 pm