question: Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza is often mistaken by historians for a star performer with what?
answer: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
context: Title: Liometopum occidentale
  Passage: Liometopum occidentale is a species of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.  "Liometopum occidentale" is often mistaken for carpenter ants ("Camponotus" spp.)  by homeowners and pest management professionals.  This mistaken identity is due to morphological and behavioral characteristics they share with carpenter ants; namely polymorphic workers, a smooth convex thoracic profile, and the tendency to excavate wood.  Consequently, their importance as structural pests may be greatly under reported, especially in California, Oregon, and Washington, United States.
  Title: Joseph Horn Cloud
  Passage: Joseph Horn Cloud born 1873 and died September 18, 1920.  His father was Horn Cloud and mother Nest, both parents died at the Wounded Knee Massacre along with two brothers William Horn Cloud (1876-1890), Sherman Horn Cloud (1865-1890) and a niece.  Joseph was a survivor of the massacre as well as his brother Daniel and half brother Dewey Beard [p. 89-95].  Dewey's mother was Yellow Leaf who also died during the massacre.  In the early 1900s a writer named Eli S. Ricker began research for a book he was going to call "The Final Conflict between the Red Men and the Palefaces."  He gathered sources and interviews about conditions and battles on the Plains during the last half of the 1800s.  He recorded the interviews in small note pads known to historians as the "Ricker Tablets."  One such interview was with Joseph telling Ricker what he witnessed at the Wounded Knee Massacre, "When the shooting began the women ran to the ravine.  The shooting was in every direction.  Soldiers shot into one another... Many of the Indians in the circle were killed.  Many of them mingled with the soldiers behind them, picking up guns from dead soldiers and taking cartridge belts."
  Title: Liometopum luctuosum
  Passage: Liometopum luctuosum is a species of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae.  "Liometopum luctuosum" is often mistaken for carpenter ants ("Camponotus" spp.)  by homeowners and pest management professionals.  This mistaken identity is due to morphological and behavioral characteristics they share with carpenter ants; namely polymorphic workers, a smooth convex thoracic profile, and the tendency to excavate wood.  "L. luctuosum" are also often confused with the "Tapinoma sessile" since they have the same coloration, are similar in size, and produce an alarm pheromone with a very similar odor.  Consequently, their importance as structural pests may be greatly under reported, especially in California, Oregon, and Washington, United States.
  Title: Patterned ground
  Passage: Patterned ground is the distinct, and often symmetrical natural pattern of geometric shapes formed by ground material in periglacial regions.  Typically found in remote regions of the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Australian outback, but also found anywhere that freezing and thawing of soil alternate; patterned ground has also been observed on Mars.  The geometric shapes and patterns associated with patterned ground are often mistaken as artistic human creations.  The mechanism of the formation of patterned ground had long puzzled scientists, but the introduction of computer-generated geological models in the past 20 years has allowed scientists to relate it to frost heaving, the expansion that occurs when wet, fine-grained, and porous soils freeze.
  Title: Dewey Beard
  Passage: Dewey Beard or Wasú Máza ("Iron Hail", 1858–1955) was a Minneconjou Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager.  After George Armstrong Custer's defeat, Wasu Maza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.  Chief Iron Hail is often mistaken by historians for Chief Iron Tail, being Lakota contemporaries with similar-sounding names.  Most biographies incorrectly report that Chief Iron Tail fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn and that his family was killed in 1890 at Wounded Knee, when in truth it was Chief Iron Hail who suffered the loss.
  Title: Panaeolus olivaceus
  Passage: Panaeolus olivaceus is a widely distributed, seldom identified, little brown mushroom that contains the hallucinogen psilocybin; it is often mistaken for "Panaeolina foenisecii" and is distinguished by its black spore print and darker gill coloration when mature alongside a slightly thicker stem.  It is even more easily mistaken for "Panaeolus cinctulus" or "Panaeolus fimicola" and can be distinguished from them both by its slightly roughened spores.  It is also easily confused with "Panaeolina castaneifolia", a species which has spores that are dark brown and significantly more roughened.
  Title: Spotted ratfish
  Passage: The spotted ratfish ("Hydrolagus colliei") is a chimaera found in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean.  Often seen by divers at night in the Pacific Northwest, this cartilaginous fish gets its characteristic name from a pointed rat-like tail.  The ratfish lays leathery egg cases on the bottom of muddy or sandy areas which are often mistaken by divers as something inanimate.  While mainly a deep-water species, it occurs at shallower depths in the northern part of its range.  The generic name, "Hydrolagus", comes from the Greek words ὕδωρ, meaning water, and λαγώς/λαγῶς, meaning hare, and the specific name honors Alexander Collie, who was a ship surgeon and early naturalist.  The spotted ratfish is common in much of its range, not typically eaten by humans (the flesh is bland with an unpleasant aftertaste) and is not commercially caught.
  Title: Charles A. Beard
  Passage: Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was, with Frederick Jackson Turner, one of the most influential American historians of the first half of the 20th century.  For a while he was a history professor at Columbia University but his influence came from hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science.  His works included a radical re-evaluation of the founding fathers of the United States, who he believed were motivated more by economics than by philosophical principles.  Beard's most influential book, "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States "(1913), has been the subject of great controversy ever since its publication.  While frequently criticized for its methodology and conclusions, it was responsible for a wide-ranging reinterpretation of American history of the founding era.  He was also the co-author with his wife Mary Beard of "The Rise of American Civilization" (1927), which had a major influence on American historians.
  Title: Iron Tail
  Passage: Iron Tail (Oglala Lakota: "Siŋté Máza" in Standard Lakota Orthography) (1842-May 29, 1916) was an Oglala Lakota Chief and a star performer with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.  Iron Tail was one of the most famous Native American celebrities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a popular subject for professional photographers who circulated his image across the continents.  Iron Tail is notable in American history for his distinctive profile on the Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel of 1913 to 1938.
  Title: Trombidiidae
  Passage: Red velvet mites or rain bugs are arachnids found in soil litter known for their bright red colours but are often mistaken for spiders.  They are also called as 'Arudra' in Telugu.  They are active predators as grown adults but as early instars are often parasites on insects and some arachnids.
citations: Dewey Beard Iron Tail