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Circuits of Spectacle Th e Miller Brothers’ 101 Ranch Real Wild West alison fields Th e Miller Brothers’ 101 Ranch Real Wild West show ran from 1906 to 1931, outlasting the famous Bu ff alo Bill’s Wild West show by more than a decade. From its beginnings in Oklahoma Territory, the Real Wild West show traveled national and international circuits and built a broad roster of performers, including more than 150 American Indians. Dur- ing the show’s run, the Miller Brothers also oversaw the contracting out of Indian performers to other venues, including the Sarasanni Circus in Dresden, Germany, and the New York Motion Picture Company’s Santa Ynez Canyon studio in California. While cultural and technologi- cal changes led to the decline of live shows and ushered in the age of western fi lms, much overlap existed between these forms of entertain- ment in the fi rst decades of the twentieth century. Many of the same Indian actors moved seamlessly between the realms of live and fi lmed performances, sometimes even reenacting the same historical events in multiple genres. Th rough their affi liation with the Miller Brothers’ show, Native people traversed geographic boundaries, negotiated space within specifi c
The American Indian Quarterly – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Feb 22, 2013
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