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occasion a Mr. Liebman, of Chicago, was killed, and his companion shot through the
shoulder.

When "BUFFALO BILL" returned from his scout with Gen. Crook, in 1876, he rode
in the self-same stage, bringing with him the scalps of several of the Indians whom he
had met. When afterwards he learned that it had been attacked and abandoned, and was
lying neglected on the plains, he organized a party, and starting on the trail, rescued and
brought the vehicle into camp.

With the sentiment that attaches to a man whose life has been identified with the
excitement of the Far West, the scout has now secured the coach from Col. Voorhees,
the manager of the Black Hills stage line, and hereafter it will play a different role in its
history from that of inviting murder and being the tomb of its passengers.
And yet the "Deadwood Coach" will play no small part in the entertain-
ment that has been organized by "BUFFALO BILL" and partner for the purpose
of representing some of the most startling realities of Western life, in a vivid
representation of one of the Indian and road agents' combined attacks.

A GROUP OF BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST COW-BOYS.

THE PASSING OF THE COW-BOY.

Until the advent of Buffalo Bill's Wild West introduced the Cow-boy to the world at
large, the great majority of people had altogether wrong notions about him. This was due
chiefly to the misrepresentations of the cheap romances and the erroneous articles which
had appeared from time to time in Eastern magazines and periodicals, which made a sort of
"half horse, half alligator" character of him, and clothed him in a garb of absurdity and
misconception. That civilized life to which his calling necessarily made him largely a
stranger has, since Colonel Cody coaxed him from the plains, grown to justly regard him as
a singularly interesting fellow, and ordinarily a very brave, quiet and unassuming one;
generous to a fault, and a fast friend under all circumstances. It does not take him long to
evidence in the great Wild West arena that he possesses the qualities of courage, clear-
headedness, agility and endurance, which are absolutely necessary in the business from
which his title is gained. In the pursuit of that business he is called upon to undergo the
most severe hardships which can fall to the lot of any man, and he is schooled to bear them
with admirable and uncomplaining fortitude. Rising at three o'clock in the morning, riding