Buffalo Bill Wild West Show re-enactment Saturday

The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show is coming to Sunbury.

On Saturday the Big Walnut Area Bicentennial Committee is hosting a re-enactment of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show that was performed in Sunbury and Delaware in June 1901.

Buffalo Bill lodged at the Hopkins House (now the Myers Inn Museum) in Sunbury, making the show an appropriate Big Walnut bicentennial celebration event.

The 4 p.m. Buffalo Bill Wild West Show will follow a traditional 3:30 p.m. Wild West show parade around Sunbury Village Square.

The show includes new and interesting arrangements of well-known Wild West incidents such as a cowboy roundup, Pony Express rides, the Battle of Little Big Horn, and more, featuring many renowned characters of the American West.

Local and regional enthusiasts will portray Buffalo Bill, Chief Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Calamity Jane, Pony Express Riders, General Custer, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Gals, Wild Bill Moose and pioneers.

In the event of torrential rain, the Wild West Show will be moved to Freedom Park on State Route 61.

While no one will be turned away for lack of funds, organizers are asking a donation of $1 per person as the price of admission to help offset expenses.

An historic photograph of the famous Buffalo Bill Cody, of Buffalo Bill Wild West Show fame. Cody, born in Iowa in 1846, was a true Western legend before starting his Wild West show. He served on cattle drives and wagon trains traversing the Western plains, at the age of 15 he made the third longest Pony Express ride ever (322 miles), served in the Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, was chief of scouts for the Fifth U.S. Cavalry, and in 1883 presented his first Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska.

http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2016/06/web1_Cody-Buffalo-Bill.C.jpgAn historic photograph of the famous Buffalo Bill Cody, of Buffalo Bill Wild West Show fame. Cody, born in Iowa in 1846, was a true Western legend before starting his Wild West show. He served on cattle drives and wagon trains traversing the Western plains, at the age of 15 he made the third longest Pony Express ride ever (322 miles), served in the Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, was chief of scouts for the Fifth U.S. Cavalry, and in 1883 presented his first Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska.