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On Pawnee Bill, Buffalo Bill's Arch Nemesis by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of Gordon William Lillie (1860-1942) better known as Pawnee Bill. Lillie was an actual frontiersman working at the Pawnee Indian Agency in Indian Territory when he was hired as a Pawnee interpreter by Buffalo Bill Cody for his wild west show in 1883.   In 1886 the newly rechristened Pawnee Bill branched off into […]

SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:23AM on February 14, 2014

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