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The tiny known history of the unlikely camaraderie of two famous characters of the North american West - Buffalo Invoice Cody and Seated Bull - told through their time in Cody's Wild West show in the 1880s. It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody - known over the land as Buffalo Invoice - conceived of his Wild West show, an "equestrian extravaganza" having cowboys and Indians. The theory took off. For four weeks in 1885, the Lakota chief Sitting Bull made an appearance in the show. Blood Brothers tells the story of the two iconic characters through their simple but important cooperation. Blood Brothers flashes back to 1876, when the Lakota wiped out Custer's 7th Cavalry unit at the Little Big Horn. Seated Bull did not take part in the "carry on stand" but was local - and blamed for killing Custer. The booklet also flashes forward to 1890, when Seated Bull was assassinated. Hours before, Cody rushed to Seated Bull's cabin at Standing Rock, dispatched by the army to avert a disaster. Deanne Stillman unearths little-told information regarding the two men and their tumultuous times. Their alliance was eased by the one and only Annie Oakley. When Seated Bull signed up with the Wild West, the function spawned one of the earliest advertising slogans: "Foes in '76, Friends in '85" - referring to the Little Big Horn. Cody paid his performers well, and he cared for the Indians no in different ways from white performers. During this time period the Native North american rights movement started to flourish. But with their life-style in tatters, the Lakota as well as others availed themselves of the chance to perform in the open West. When Cody died in 1917, a large contingent of Native Americans went to his public funeral. An iconic camaraderie tale like no other, Blood Brothers is actually a timeless history of men and women from different cultures who crossed barriers to engage one another as human beings. And it foretells today's fight on the Great Plains.
