Original posters advertising Wild West shows along with historic photographs of star performers provide a sense of the original outdoor entertainments of the early 20th century. Features of the genre included recreations of wagon trains, attacks by American Indians, and the Pony Express, while skill acts displayed Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley performing sharp shooting, roping, and riding. The work of historical painters and sculptors like Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, as well as contemporary photographers such as David Levinthal, incorporates performance qualities into western subjects. This exhibition reveals the influence of the Wild West shows on these and other artists whose western subject matter gives a nod toward theatricality. In doing so, they expanded—and continue to do so—the deep mythology that imbues the American West.