Wild West Show and Rodeo Performers
- Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995)
- Yakima Canutt (1896–1986)
- William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846–1917)
- James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837–1876)
- Texas Jack Omohundro (1846–1880)
- Jack Hoxie (1885–1965)
- Gordon William "Pawnee Bill" Lillie (1860–1942)
- May Lillie, née Manning (1869–1936)
- Thomas E. "Tom" Mix (1880–1940)
- Lucille Mulhall (1885–1940); The original cowgirl.
- Annie Oakley (1860–1926)
- Connie Douglas Reeves (1901–2003)
- Gabriel Dumont (1837–1906)
Bill Picket
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Famous quotes containing the words wild, west, show and/or performers:
“That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so necessary to him, but he had come back to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Wild Bill was indulging in his favorite pastime of a friendly game of cards in the old No. 10 saloon. For the second time in his career, he was sitting with his back to an open door. Jack McCall walked in, shot him through the back of the head, and rushed from the place, only to be captured shortly afterward. Wild Bill’s dead hand held aces and eights, and from that time on this has been known in the West as “the dead man’s hand.””
—State of South Dakota, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualms at all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.”
—Leontyne Price (b. 1927)