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One of the earliest Buffalo Bill items, a broadside announcing the performance at the Bowery Theater of Buffalo Bill, "the Greatest success of the time, from the story in the New York Weekly by Ned Buntline, by the Popular Young Dramatist Fred. G. Maeder, Esq." The cast is given (Buffalo Bill was played by Mr. J. B. Studley), along with a "Reconstructed Synopsis" of the play, which takes place in 1861, starting in Kansas. Dime novel writer Ned Buntline began writing of the adventures of William F. Cody, a.k.a. Buffalo Bill, in 1869, and Cody himself began acting the part on stage around 1872, about the time of this production. It laid the groundwork for his later Wild West Show and worldwide fame.