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“Giuseppina Morlacchi is a beautiful creature, and she came upon the stage like a sudden ray of light. She is of the spiritual order of woman, small, delicate, fiery, with a fine little head and a luminous face, and she dances with her soul as well as with all her body. The New York Tribune – October 25, 1867
The reflection staring back at ballerina Giuseppina Morlacci showed a tired, dark-haired woman with bloodshot eyes and a pale face. She had been up most of the night memorizing her lines for a melodrama she was to appear in entitled “The Scouts of the Prairie.”
The unique Western show would premiere at a massive amphitheatre in downtown Chicago and entertain thousands of spectators. It was December 1872, and all those who hadn’t answered the call to go west were to see a program depicting the wilds beyond the Rockies.
To learn more about Giuseppina Morlacchi and the other women who performed with Cody read Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
