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Step right up to a world of cardboard saloons, malfunctioning buffalo costumes, and dreams stitched together with frayed rope and gunpowder. In tonight’s gently absurd bedtime descent, you are not a gunslinger, a sharpshooter, or even a particularly skilled rider. You are a nameless assistant in Buffalo Bill Cody’s traveling Wild West Show—a global theatrical spectacle where history gets rewritten nightly and the backstage smells like regret and wet fringe.

Follow the rise and unraveling of the show through London fog, Paris mud, and the endless logistics of fake massacres and misplaced cannons. Watch as legends fade, illusions collapse, and the painted West gallops toward its final bow. You survive it all—sort of.

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