ABSTRACT
During the decade of the 1840s Catlin devoted … his boundless energies … to the public exhibition of his Indian Gallery in England and on the continent in Europe. He employed live actors, Englishmen, dressed, painted and taught to demonstrate Indian dances and to act like red men … By the middle 1840s, there were small troops of genuine Iowa and Ojibwe Indians in London. 2 At this time Catlin added live Indians to his show. 3 Tus he anticipated the appeal of the Wild West show to British and European audiences before the great showman Bufalo Bill was born. (Ewers 1979, 14, paraphrase; see also Mulvey 1989)
