The Indians of the Far West

The Indians of the Far West was possibly a so-called Wild West Show[1], or a set of tableaux[2], by an unknown author.

The original text

Possibly a tableau-like performance based on an illustrated article called “Indians of the Far West”, published in The Illustrated London News, Vol. XXXII, No. 913 on Saturday, April 17, 1858, pp. 400-401.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: A scene from The Indians of the Far West performed in the Eastern Cape village of Keiskama Hoek's Garrison Theatre by the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot on June 3, with a cast that included J. F. Gay (Waconosta, Chief of the Mohicans) and J. Davies (Mardoc). Also performed was as The Irish Tutor (Butler), followed by a scene from The Castle Spectre (Lewis). (For more on contemporary responses to the performances, see the entry on the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot)

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_West_shows

https://dramaresource.com/tableaux/

Transcription of the 1858 ILN article, posted on the Stone Quarries and Beyond web site by Peggy B. Perazzo (Email: pbperazzo@comcast.net) on February 2013[3]. Accessed: 7 August, 2018.

North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 13, July 23, 1862. (Keiskama Hoek)

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