Buffalo Bill Cody’s “Wild West, Rocky Mountain, and Prairie Exhibition

Buffalo Bill Cody’s “Wild West, Rocky Mountain, and Prairie Exhibition” was very successful. It gave citizens living in the eastern part of the country and in Europe the unrealistic, untrue, romanticized, spectacle of the West they wanted to see.

All of the following statements provide reasons why any other type of show would NOT have been successful EXCEPT
A) a realistic presentation of the West would need to have African-American, Mexican, and Latino cowboys.
B) because cowboys and Indians rarely fought, those scenes would have had to be eliminated.
C) Annie Oakley was not truly representative of Western women who had much more responsibility than sharp shooting.
D) realism was what people came to the show to see.

ANSWER
Answer: D