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June 1, 2007

UNM Kicks Off Summer Lecture Series
When the West Was Still Wild

Actor, performer and two-time Emmy nominee Bill Mooney will kick off the Summer Sunset Lecture Series at UNM Libraries on Saturday, June 9, at 7 p.m. in an original one-man show portraying famous frontier showman William F. Cody. “Tonight! Buffalo Bill!” will be presented in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library on the main UNM Campus.

William F. Cody was christened “Buffalo Bill” for his skill in supplying workers on the Kansas Pacific Railroad with buffalo meat. Cody was a trapper, a bullwhacker, a Colorado miner, a Pony Express rider, a wagon master, stagecoach driver, Civil War soldier and hotel manager, but he spent several years as a scout for the U.S. Army, eventually receiving the Medal of Honor for his efforts. In his later years he began appearing on stage and put together his Wild West show, with real cowboys and real Indians portraying the “real West.”

Mooney’s performance takes his audience back to the late 1800’s, when the west was still being settled and life seemed less complicated. The performance is free and the public is welcome.

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