I loved the idea of a London that was torn between love of Queen and Empire, and adoration of all things American (and republican). He became friends with the Prince of Wales, who would become King Edward VII, as well as many other high society figures, and London found itself convulsed by ‘cowboy fever’.
Bill Cody was soon the toast of the town. Each slot lasted 15 minutes and one day the subject was Buffalo Bill’s Wild West which, after huge success on America’s East Coast, came to the UK in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.Having written about Native Americans in my previous book (Savage Lands) this captured my imagination, especially when the narrator described how the Native Americans were required to dress up in full warrior regalia and travel about London on the red buses as a publicity stunt. WHAT INSPIRED ME A few years ago, picking up my son from school every day, I found myself listening to a sixty part radio series on Radio 4 about the history of the US.
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