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Buffalo Bill's appearance in the opera
house last night was before a full house.
The audience was called upon to follow a
portion of the career of the "Prairie
Waif," who, as a little five-year-old girl,
was stolen by white men disguised as Indians.
Her subsequent life, until she
reached the age of sixteen, was spent
among the INdians, but at this time the
tribe to which she was attached was almost
exterminated, and it was while she was
making her way to the white settlements
with a friendly Indian that her Indian friend
was killed by renegade white men,
who were about carrying her off into
another life of captivity, when she was
rescued by Buffalo Bill. Bill fell in love
with her, proposed and was accepted, and
was baout being married when she was
again carried off by the Danites; was
again rescued by Buffalo Bill, who placed
her in the arms of her father, who turned
out to be General Brown, and Bill having
previously received that gentleman's consent
to their union, we are led to believe
that a wedding soon took place. The frequent
storms of applause are sufficient
proofs that the audience was pleased. In
the course of the play Buffalo Bill gave an
exhibition of fancy shooting with a rifle
and he made some good shots.