Circus World Museum

Historic wagon from the famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_West_shows
I am fascinated by the fact that Buffalo Bill created a show parading the last of the 'wild' indians at the turn of the century. I recently read a good book about building the Eiffel Tower by author Jill Jonnes and she describes the story when the wild west show went to the Paris World's fair and a group of native americans (indians) who never before left America stood on top of the Eiffel Tower as among some of the very first people to visit it.

[bkb in the city]

What a great piece of history

[kali]

must have been a blast for them, similar to the Maori who went to England on the ships at the start of colonisation in New Zealand, talk about culture shock

[Krista Marson]

@kali66 a very similar event in history. And to think that both cultures probably had no inkling that the world was a much bigger place beyond where they were.

[john morley]

Sad that we will never feel that culture shock, I read that some people think that travel is now too dangerous, so why not just Google map the world, I had seen plenty of pictures of the Eiffel Tower but was stunned when I stood before it.

[Wylie]

A terrific find, though a sad story.

[Bep]

Interesting piece of history.

[Walks @ 7]

Nice shot. It was interesting to learn that Native Americans were some of the first to see from the very top of the Eiffel Tower.

[Bob Zwolinsky]

Thanks for the Wiki link, an interesting read

[Jerome]

love the contrasts of black-white-orange, also edged up to the round of wheels.

[Krista Marson]

@jack4john just a random observation that I have...i live in a state (Arizona) that has a sizeable population of native Americans and i work with quite a few and not a single one ever travels anywhere, not even out of Arizona. Mostly they do the long drive from phoenix to 'back home' up in the very far northeast corner of the state. There are very few jobs up on 'the rez' (Indian reservation) and many have to work in phoenix and drive back him on weekends. That pretty much sucks up all their energy to travel elsewhere.