Express rider, army scout, buffalo hunter and international showman, William Cody popularly known as Buffalo Bill epitomizes for many of us the image of the Westerner. Hailed by many as a living legend, debunked by the others as a fake and little more than a cardboard figure on his own giant show posters, he surely did not accomplish all the feats attributed to him by popular writers of the time.

 

One fact remains certain: touring extensively with his Wild West show during nearly 30 years, he brought his own romantic vision of the Old West to the industrialized world. Audiences all over America and Europe gathered to watch a glamourised version of the conquest of the West reenacted by real life cowboys and Indians among whom were some of the actual participants in the Indian wars such as Sitting Bull, the great Lakota chief. Thus Buffalo Bill Cody contributed almost singlehandedly to introduce the image of the Indians to the hearts and minds of millions of people. For this feat alone, his place in the present series is righfully deserved.

 

1/9 Scale model kit requires assembly & painting.