For Buffalo Bill
Written, Produced, and Directed by
Rob Rapley
Narrator
Richard Ben Cramer
Editor
Penny Elliott Hays
Supervising Producer
Mark Zwonitzer
Associate Producer
Sierra Pettengill
Original Music Composed by
Joel Goodman
Director of Photography
Michael Chin
Motion Graphics Artist
Tim D’Amico
Production Manager
Deborah Clancy Porfido
Production Assistant
Zachary Wise
On-Line Editor/Colorist
Martin Benn
Sound Editor and Mixer
Jim Briggs III
Additional Graphics
John Vondracek
Assistant Editor
Kara O’Connell-Williams
Assistant Online Editor
Courtney Enos
Assistant Camera
Petr Stepanek
Sound Recording
Wes Cavalier
Gaffer
John Murphy
Grip
Spencer Blessman
Production Interns
Brian Letwin
Michael Muldoon
Narration Recording
Lou Verrico
Transcriber
Colleen Sackheim
Buffalo Bill’s Cowboy Band Music
Performed by the Americus Brass Band
Produced by Michael L. Masterson
Archival Material Courtesy of
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
Denver Public Library, Western History Collection
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Tibbals Digital Collection
Adirondack Museum
Alan Gallop
American Antiquarian Society
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
The Annie Oakley Center at Garst Museum
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission
Chicago History Museum
Corbis
Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
Fee & Murphy Family Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
Getty Images
Hoboken Historical Museum
J.E. Stimson Collection, Wyoming State Archives, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources
Jim P. Crain
Kansas State Historical Society
Library and Archives Division, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Library of Congress
Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Museum of the American West, Autry National Center, Los Angeles
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Nebraska State Historical Society Photograph Collections
National Archives
Oxford Free Public Library Historical Museum
Paul L. Hedren
South Dakota State Historical Society – State Archives
Smithsonian American Art Museum
WGBH
Wisconsin Historical Society
Special Thanks
Ann-Marie Donoghue
Betsy Martinson
Boettcher Mansion
Charles & Karen Scoggin
Chautauqua Association
Joseph Rosa
Juti Winchester
Northwest College
Rose Mesteth
Sandy Tomes
Sarah Kiesler
Steve Friesen
For AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Post Production
Vanessa Ezersky
Glenn Fukushima
Greg Shea
Series Designer
Alison Kennedy
On-line Editor
Spencer Gentry
Sound Mix
John Jenkins
Series Theme
Charles Kuskin
Production Manager
Nancy Sherman
Legal
Jay Fialkov
Janice Flood
Maureen Jordan
Scott Kardel
Project Administration
Kelsey Dorwart
Susana Fernandes
Pamela Gaudiano
Marketing and Communications
Laura Bowman
Jen Holmes
Patrick Ramirez
Project Manager
Lauren Prestileo
Associate Producer, New Media
Molly Jacobs
Director of New Media
Maria Daniels
Senior Editor
Paul Taylor
Series Producer
Susan Bellows
Series Manager
James E. Dunford
Coordinating Producer
Susan Mottau
Senior Producer
Sharon Grimberg
Executive Producer
Mark Samels
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