![]() ![]() A cast of former cavalrymen, cowboys, and Native performers reenacted “Custer’s Last Fight” at the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, where Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors repelled a U.S. Cody capitalized on a pervasive sense that a long era of territorial conquest and settlement was coming to an end, and he charmed audiences with a tribute to the closing of the frontier. ![]() ![]() Many of them took in performances staged by Buffalo Bill Cody, a legendary entertainer and army scout. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaĪbout 25 million people visited Chicago in 1893 for the World’s Fair. The U.S.-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona (Robert Bushell/Wikimedia Commons) Trump’s wall is a “monument to the final closing of the frontier.” He has abandoned the political language of boundless optimism for a darker tone. ![]()
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