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Buffalo Bill: American Experience

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's legendary exploits helped create the myth of the American West that still endures today. Sunday at 1 p.m. on PBS-HD.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents a portrait of the man who made the American West into the American story. This documentary draws upon rich archival materials to explore the man behind the legend, revealing the complexity of William Cody's extraordinary life.

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In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It was one of the most elaborate shows on earth. There were cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters including the famed Annie Oakley, hundreds of horses, buffalo, elk and donkeys, with more than two hundred cast members, all moving about in a sweeping western landscape of mountains and plains. Soon after the show's success in New York, it would go on to dazzle crowds in London, Paris, Rome and Barcelona, cementing the legend of the Wild West in the minds of people around the globe.

Behind the extravaganza was one man -- a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero, whose meteoric rise to fame was made possible only by his genius, and his hucksterism.

Sunday at 1 p.m. on PBS-HD.

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