Due to melodrama’s well- established narrative conventions the analysis of stage enactments of the bushranger legend in the previous two chapters focused on representational and narrative features. The impermanence of theatre production and the scarcity of surviving visual records necessitates such a focus. However, bushrangers appeared in other performance formats that inspired later cinematic characteristics. Wild West shows already had a reputation for visual enactment of national themes from their conception in the United States, and the Australian adaptation of the Wild West show for-mula continued this tradition. Though Australian Wild West shows only made limited explicit use of bushrangers, their transformation of demonstrations of bush work and skills intersects with the bushranger legend’s valorization of these abilities.