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Gordon "Pawnee Bill" Lillie
World-renowned Wild West showman Gordon William "Pawnee Bill" Lillie was born the eldest of four children on February 14, 1860 to Newton Lillie, a flour miller, and Susan Conant Lillie of Bloomington, Illinois.Buffalo bill's wild west show annie oakley
Little Gordon was fascinated with the Wild West. When he wasn't working at the mill, he could be found reading dime novels about Buffalo Bill Cody and others. When their mill burned in the 1870s, the Lillie family relocated to Wellington, Kansas, to reestablish their business with the support of local relatives.
There the family farmed and would later build another mill.
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It was in Kansas that Gordon Lillie, now a teenager, would begin his life-long relationship with the Pawnee people, who were wintering near Wellington during their removal to the vicinity of Pawnee, Oklahoma in 1875. Soon, Lillie was spending many hours with the Indians, learning their skills and language.
While there, he also made an important long-time f
