Burke, John M.  Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace. Edited by Chris Dixon.

On September 1873 William F. Cody, the man known as Buffalo Bill, met John M. Burke. Burke was a theatre manager and Cody was starring in the stage production Scouts of the Plains. This first meeting began a professional relationship that accompanied and determined the thirty-three years of performances –from 1883 to 1916– of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Often presented as the show’s “general manager,” Burke served as its advance man, talent scout, location scout, and press agent. He prepa..