William F. Buffalo Bill Cody was the entertainment industry s first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and appeared in various incarnations of the western world s greatest traveling attraction, enthralling audiences around the globe. When the show reached Europe it was a sensation, igniting Wild West fever by offering what purported to be a genuine experience of the American frontier.By any standard Charles Eldridge Griffin (1859 1914), manager of the Wild West s European tour, was a remarkable man. Known by...