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[PAWNEE BILL] Historical Recollections of "Pawnee Bill" in the Wild West at the International Exposition at Antwerp [sic]. Philadelphia, Ledger Show Print, [1894]. Booklet in-8, 232 x 147 mm, stapled, chromolithographed cover (bottom cover detached). On the background of the cover, the prairies of the Wild West where crews and Apaches ride, in the inset the portraits of Pawnee Bill and May Lillie. 32 pages retracing the "Wild West" of Pawnee Bill. Publication sold as a souvenir of "Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show" at the Antwerp International Exposition in 1894. It contains numerous illustrated entries on events and picturesque figures from the history of the Wild West. Pawnee Bill, alias of Gordon William Lillie (1860-1942), one time partner of Buffalo Bill, put on his own show with his wife May, including Mexican cowboys, Pawnees, Japanese artists and Arabian jugglers!