VISUAL ACTIVITY Buffalo Bill Poster William (Buffalo Bill) Cody used colorful posters to publicize his Wild West show during the 1880s and 1890s. This poster from 1899 shows Indians attacking a wagon train and a village of tepees in the background. By the 1870s, the era of the wagon train had ended with the coming of the transcontinental railroads. The mythic West Cody (featured on the right) recreates, is already part of the past. Library of Congress. READING THE IMAGE: How does Buffalo Bill contribute to the “myth of the old West” in this poster? CONNECTIONS: What would Frederick Jackson Turner and the historians who gathered in Chicago have thought of the history of expansion depicted in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show?