MANCHESTER, 1903
Far from their tribal homes, a group of Native Americans pack into a Manchester tram. They have not come to England to sightsee, but for a tour of Bufalo Bill’s Wild West – a hugely popular outdoor show featuring gunslinging, horse riding and recreations of battles between ‘cowboys and Indians’. When the show moved on, however, a chief named Charging Thunder chose to stay behind with his horse-trainer wife, Josephine. He lived the rest of his days as George Edward Williams in Gorton.