Description
The First Reality Show in Essex
by David Dunford
The author of Full Circle
Buffalo Bill was one of the most famous men in the world and for five days in the early 1900s he could be found walking the streets of Essex. He wasn’t alone. He’d brought with him the most extraordinary show ever seen. Hundreds of people and animals performed in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
This was no circus — the cowboys were real cowboys; the Indians real Indians and the cavalry had been real soldiers. They portrayed real events in American history in which many of them had actually taken part. It was the world’s first reality show and Buffalo Bill brought it to the county a hundred years before ‘The Only Way is Essex’ turned the idea into a global phenomenon. This book tells the story of Buffalo Bill, the Wild West and what happened when they visited Southend, Colchester, Chelmsford, Ilford and Leyton.
BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST
The First Reality Show in Essex
ISBN 9780993108389 £7.99
(includes postage to any UK address)
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and New Zealand and other destinations the outside UK please e-mail
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See the video short read by the author
