Current Affairs 100 years ago Buffalo Bill and his "Wild West" show performed in Moravia

11-08-2006 15:10 | Jan Velinger, Zdenka Kuchyňová

This Saturday marks one hundred years since William Frederick Cody - more famously known as Buffalo Bill - first visited Moravia with his famous "Wild West" touring extravaganza. In his day the show, which featured numerous performers enacting scenes from the American wilderness, made Cody one of the most recognisable men on Earth, and even now the legacy of the famous rider, army scout, and trapper continues to attract countless fans. The Znojmo region in the Czech Republic even boasts a "Buffalo Bill Museum" opened last year on a ranch there known as "City of Rolftown", founded by the late Rudolf Stanek, sr.

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