William Frank Carver of the season they parted ways and divided the assets by the flip of a coin. Cody then formed a partnership with the promoter and showman Nate Salsbury, and the show continued as "Buffalo Bill's Wild West". Carver put his own show on tour, also billed as the "Wild West". As the two shows crisscrossed the country for the next few years, Carver and Cody engaged in legal wrangling over various issues. The foremost points of dispute were the use of the name "Wild West" and Carver's assertion that Cody still owed him $27,000, which Carver claimed he had invested
Ram Chandra (snake showman) Ram Chandra (snake showman) Ram Chandra (real name: Edward Royce Ramsamy) was a snake showman in Australia. He was known as Australia' "taipan man" and for his work in extracting snake venom to create antivenenes. He was born on 24 May 1921 and joined the show circuit in Sydney in the early 1940s. He handled and demonstrated various snakes in 'The Pit of Death' and in 1946 changed his name to Ram Chandra. He was responsible for the identification of the taipan as a separate species from the brown snake. In 1951 he successfully milked a taipan and in 1955