Buffalo Bill's Not-So-Wild Western Home

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Visiting the Lavish Mansion Home of the Ordinary Man Who Monetized (and invented) the West, and Finding Out How That Happened

Not the tent you might imagine a cowboy type to inhabit. Of course, he wasn’t a cowboy at all. Image: Annette Laing, 2022

“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,” my schoolchums and I sang in 1970s England, to the tune of Home on the Range, “and I’ll give you a very messy carpet.”

I think we stole that off the telly, but hey!

There were no messy carp…