Later this month, the Buffalo Bill Museum of LeClaire is hosting Buffalo Bill’s Best of The Wild West. This immersive event on June 29 and 30 takes place at Cody Elementary School, 2100 Territorial Road in LeClaire. A reenactor plays Buffalo Bill Cody as part of the Best of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
"Buffalo Bill" Cody was born William Cody in LeClaire in 1846. He went on to become a famed figure of the "Wild West," including through his original Wild West show. The grounds open at 10:30 each day.
Refreshments will be available, and visitors can listen to music, tour the canvas boomtown camp, see historic demonstrations, play 1880’s kid games and meet the legends of the West. At 12:30 each day, the one-hour and 20-minute live extravaganza Buffalo Bill’s Best of the Wild West will take place in an arena. Legends of the Wild West, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, trick riders, sharpshooters, a Gatling gun, side-saddle riders, a stagecoach, mounted bandits and cavalry will perform scenes right out of the original Wild West.
“I saw this group perform in Wisconsin last year and I knew we should bring it to LeClaire. Pleasant Valley Schools offered to host, and the Tourism Board decided to celebrate the 190th birthday for the City of LeClaire," said Rita Farro, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum. "The Riverboat Twilight is providing shuttle buses from the Mississippi levee parking lot up to the Cody School location.
Everybody in town is pulling together to make this event hap.