Plot: The western movie, the cowboy novel, the rodeo and the wild west show are all means by which the West has become mythologised, distorted, caricatured and made larger than life.
The West no longer lives in reality, only in the world of the imagination, but the key figure in the historical process whereby the factual, historical West was transformed into the 'Western myth' was William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody

Arena - Season 2003 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made (Episode 1)
Episode Aired On:
Friday, December 19 2003
21 years ago
Friday, December 19 2003
21 years ago
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