Buffalo Bill
Joshua Karichner
11-12-14
Dr. Guynn
ENG 0104
Buffalo Bill Museum
The title of the essay written by Jane Tompkins about her trip to the buffalo bill museum was named “At the Buffalo Bill Museum.” Throughout this essay Thompkins was confused about Bill Cody also known as “Buffalo Bill” not knowing of he was a good person or if he was a bad person. Through the entire essay she was fence sitting on her beliefs of Buffalo Bill. Finally she came to the conclusion that Buffalo Bill was indeed a good person, and was loved for who he was and what he did in his lifetime. Multiple reason were brought up for why people thought he might have been great person including the fact that he was a social person who was more likely to a stranger then let them walk by, also he was known to be heroic. He gave most of his fortune away to keep others happy and that’s what really made him a better man then others. She knew that he had major flaws like killing Indians and innocent animals, but the fact that he did good after that and tried to make up for his mistakes made him into the overall better person then others who chose not to fess up to their wrong doings. During the tour of the museum she realized how much she was not enjoying it and was bitter at the end of the tour. The first part of the tour when she looked inside each room throughout the museum including “The Whitney Gallery of Western Art” she observed that the painting like “The First Lesson” and “Coming to the Call” were actually describing the true life of American history in the west, while Remington said that in the previous times there were major wars, un fair killing of animals and torture of both people and animals. When people say a picture is worth a million words, this quote really hit home when she was looking into these paintings. Continuing onto the next room, she entered the “Buffalo Bill Museum.” She described by saying it was a “wonderful array of textures, colors, shapes, and etc.” When entering the
11-12-14
Dr. Guynn
ENG 0104
Buffalo Bill Museum
The title of the essay written by Jane Tompkins about her trip to the buffalo bill museum was named “At the Buffalo Bill Museum.” Throughout this essay Thompkins was confused about Bill Cody also known as “Buffalo Bill” not knowing of he was a good person or if he was a bad person. Through the entire essay she was fence sitting on her beliefs of Buffalo Bill. Finally she came to the conclusion that Buffalo Bill was indeed a good person, and was loved for who he was and what he did in his lifetime. Multiple reason were brought up for why people thought he might have been great person including the fact that he was a social person who was more likely to a stranger then let them walk by, also he was known to be heroic. He gave most of his fortune away to keep others happy and that’s what really made him a better man then others. She knew that he had major flaws like killing Indians and innocent animals, but the fact that he did good after that and tried to make up for his mistakes made him into the overall better person then others who chose not to fess up to their wrong doings. During the tour of the museum she realized how much she was not enjoying it and was bitter at the end of the tour. The first part of the tour when she looked inside each room throughout the museum including “The Whitney Gallery of Western Art” she observed that the painting like “The First Lesson” and “Coming to the Call” were actually describing the true life of American history in the west, while Remington said that in the previous times there were major wars, un fair killing of animals and torture of both people and animals. When people say a picture is worth a million words, this quote really hit home when she was looking into these paintings. Continuing onto the next room, she entered the “Buffalo Bill Museum.” She described by saying it was a “wonderful array of textures, colors, shapes, and etc.” When entering the