
Entertainers carefully crafted the " Wild West" as a place where everything was extraordinarily exciting and distinct from the civilized parts of the world.

These shows brought before American and European audiences the representative people and animals of the West and reproduced the sights and sounds of the Plains frontier.

Wild West shows played a significant role in imaging the West by transforming the plethora of confusing and conflicting information about life on the western plains into orderly and predicable acts that spectators found informative and entertaining.
