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WHERE AND WHEN THE PICTURESQUE SHOWMAN, "BUFFALO BILL." IS JUST PLAIN "BILLY," "BILL," "BILL CODY," "THE COLONEL," AND "COL. CODY."

Among all the realities that have made The Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World famous, and easily the favorite on two continents of amusement enterprises, none can be more truly real than Col. W. F. Cody's reality as a Western man and the faithfulness of his love for the plains and mountains, where he found fame and fortune a third of a century ago.

His strong, picturesque personality has stood for a quarter of a century typical of the free life on the great plains, in the canyons, and among the cloud-piercing peaks of the West. Whether the season of the Rough Riders end at Berlin, Rome, Venice, Naples, Vienna, Madrid, Edinburg, Liverpool, London, Paris, or New York; be it in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, America or England, however enticing the social, sight-seeing or

COL. W. F. CODY'S TE RANCH, IN BIG HORN BASIN, WYOMING.

scenic attractions bidding him stay, nothing but the fastest speed steam can make suits Col. Cody. He wants to, and will, cross the Missouri River at the earliest possible moment. From London to the brink of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in eleven days was one of his rushes from the rising to the setting sun made a few years ago.

In Omaha he is "Col. Cody," except when he meets men whose locks are silvered, men of the plains and mountains who have known him thirty years or more; with them he is just "Billy," or plain "Bill." At North Platte, Neb., where he has lived since the early seventies, he is "Our Billy" or "Bill," with his high and low, rich and poor alike, and a man's station in life or the money he has had, or has now, does not in the least affect Col. Cody's manner towards him. His hand and his heart are held out to all, and to the poor and needy it is never an empty hand he holds out.