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THBPawnee Bill TLSs, Signed Checks, & Old Town and Trading Post Memorabilia
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LiveNov 18, 2016 - Nov 19, 2016
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- Lot Description
Lot of 13, featuring 5 items signed by Wild West Show entertainer and owner, G.W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie (1860-1942), including: TLS, 2pp, to friend Zack on Pawnee Bill's Old Town stationery with an attached invoice for Indian wardrobes, signed G.W. Lillie, June 24, 1932; TLS, 1p, to Fred Schweizberger on Pawnee Bill's Old Town stationery speaking about bringing 3 yoke of oxen to the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, signed G.W. Lillie, March 29, 1933; Signed check, 8.5 x 3.5 in., paid to Roy Dickson for 6 dollars on September 23, 1939, with imprint of Pawnee Bill's Old Town and Indian Trading Post, from the First National Bank of Oklahoma; Signed check, 8.5 x 3.5 in., paid to Etta Sharp for two dollars and forty five cents on September 2, 1939, with imprint of Pawnee Bill's Old Town and Indian Trading Post; Signed check, 8.5 x 3.5 in., paid to Walter Gray for one dollar on September 2, 1939, with Old Town and Indian Trading Post imprint.
Accompanied by: Grotkop, B.M. Hucking Hotel Owner. TLS, 1p, to G.W. Lillie on Pawnee Bill's Old Town stationery concerning a delivery of several carbons of letters for The General Mills deal and the newly designed stationery, signed by Grotkop on August 4, 1937; two 1930 fliers with dramatic Western scenes surrounding Pawnee Bill's Old Town and Indian Trading Post, "Out Where the West Remains," 13 x 9 in.; opened envelope on Pawnee Bill's Indian Trading Post stationery, addressed to Mr. Kay Barney Gonzales, TX postmarked 1945 with a three cent US Postage stamp, 9.25 in. x 4 in.; unmarked envelope with a stamped design for Pawnee Bill's Indian Trading Post with a two cent stamp, 6.25 x 3.5 in.; blue ticket for the Pawnee Bill's Rodeo and Indian Pow-Pow in 1933; official show route card for the 101 Real Wild West Show for the 1930 season; postcard announcing Pawnee Bill's Championship Rodeo with a stamp of a man riding a bucking bronco.
Undaunted by the fiscal realities of the Great Depression, business man and Wild West Show owner Pawnee Bill opened a popular tourist attraction in Pawnee, OK. Pawnee Bill's Old Town and Indian Trading post sold American Indian and Mexican goods and hosted rodeos for eager tourists, still imagining the wild and untamed West. The attraction remained a popular destination until it burned to the ground in 1940. Nearing his own death, Pawnee Bill did not rebuild the town.Toning of the image and markings on the reverse of the cards by a previous owner, cases of scattered foxing on the casual portrait.Condition
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