Wild West in the Wild East: Buffalo Bill Comes to Gloucester – The Historical Vagabond

Buffalo Bill's visits to America's biggest fishing port often came just when the town needed it most. Little did the rest of America know, but the fish that fed them was paid for with the lives of hundreds of Gloucester fishermen. For Gloucester’s young and old, for the new widows, the kids who lost their fathers in the last gale, for the men who had to set their hooks among the bones of their brothers, and for everyone else that shared in these all-to-common tragedies, Buffalo Bill provided world-class escapism.