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| Paul Newman | William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody |
| Burt Lancaster | The Legend Maker / Ned Buntline |
| Joel Grey | Nate Salisbury (Cody's partner) |
| Harvey Keitel | Ed Goodman |
| Kevin McCarthy | Maj. John M. Burke (general press agent) |
| Mike Kaplan | The Treasurer / Jules Keen |
| Bert Remsen | Crutch |
| Geraldine Chaplin | Annie Oakley |
| John Considine | Frank Butler |
| Frank Kaquitts | Sitting Bull |
| Will Sampson | The Interpreter / William Halsey |
| Robert DoQui | Oswald Dart |
| Denver Pyle | McLaughlin (man who delivers Sitting Bull) |
| Pat McCormick | The President of the United States / Grover Cleveland |
| Shelley Duvall | The First Lady / Mrs. Cleveland |
| Evelyn Lear | Nina Cavalini (singer) |
| Bonnie Leaders | Margaret (Bill's woman [opera singer]) |
| Noelle Rogers | The Lyric-Coloratura / Lucille DuCharme |
| Fred Larsen | The King of the Cowboys / Buck Taylor |
By 1885, beloved cavalryman Buffalo Bill Cody has hired a publicist and producer to help shape and promote his traveling Wild West show, which presents historically inaccurate reenactments of conflicts between U.S. troops and Native Americans. Cody hires Chief Sitting Bull to play himself, as a villain, in stagings of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. But, to Cody's dismay, star performer Annie Oakley and spectators both take to Sitting Bull.
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