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MUSIC HALL.
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
Monday, November 10, 1879.
HON. W. F. CODY,
BUFFALO BILL!
-AND HIS
Mammoth Combination
-OF
24 -ARTISTS- 24
Each member having been especially enranged for their respective parts. And to further strengthen the Drama Mr. Cody has at great expense, secured a band of
Genuine Indian Chiefs,
who will on this occasion appear in the Melodrama in 4 Acts, written for Buffalo Bill by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, entitled
KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS
Or, Buffalo Bill's Best Trail.
Act 1st--Prairie Fire Scene. (From the Orginal Painting). Act 2d--Gambling Saloon in Cheyenne, Act 8d--Buffalo Bill as a Detective. Act 4th--Buffalo Bill as the Pony Express Rid Buttermilk and his Trained Donkey, Robbing the Overland Stage Coach, Buffalo Bill to the Rescue EDDIE BURGESS, the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, and C. A. BURGESS, U. S. Scout, and a Band of Genuine Indians in their War and Medicine Dances, &c. During the first Act Buffalo Bill will exhibit his MARVELOUS RIFLE SHOOTING, which has distinguished him as one of the greatest marksmen the World has ever produced.
POPULAR PRICES--Reserved Seats 75 cents, to be had at Nye & Co 's Drug Store. Look out for the Street Parade by the Indians on horseback headed by Buffalo Bill's Military Band.
Col, PRENTISS INGRAHAM, Treasurer.
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THE celebrated Buffalo Bill, with his troop of wild Indians all accoutred and painted for the war path, took the town last Tuesday. The procession in the forenoon attracted a good deal of attention, and the Opera House in the evening was literally crammed. Buffalo Bill himself, is a splendid looking specimen of the genus homo, and the Indians with their moccasins, leggings, blankets, feathers, bows and tomahawks, were all that fancy -- and water colors -- could paint them.
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ONE NIGHT ONLY. Wednesday, Nov. 12th, 1870
Eighth Annual Tour of the Historic Government Scout, Guide and Hunter,
HON. W. F. CODY, Buffalo Bill.
And his Mammoth Dramatic Combination of 24 ARTISTS. 24!
INCLUDING A SUPERB MILITARY BRASS BAND AND ORCHESTRA!
Each member having been especially engaged for their respective parts. And to further strengthen the Drama Mr. Cody has at great expense secured a band of GENUINE INDIAN CHIEFS who will on this occasion appear in the Medorama in four Acts, written four Buffalo Bill by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, entitled
KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS! OF BUFFALO BILLS BEST TRAIL
During the first Act Buffalo Bill will exhibit HIS MARVELOUS RIFLE-SHOOTING which has distinguished him as one of the greatest marksmen the world has ever produced.
POPULAR PRICES--reserved seats 75 cents to be had at Gould A. Kelle's Store
Look out for the Street Parade on horseback headed by Buffalo Bill's Military Band on the above date.
JOSH E. OGDEN. Bus Manager.
COL. PRENTISS INGRAHAM. Treasurer.
COL. [?] [?]. Treasurer.
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[From the Cleveland Herald, Oct. 21, 1875]
COURIERS
The Remarkable Rides of Buffalo Bill.
The English papers have recently been loud in praise of Mr. Arcibald Forbes, who made a really tough ride across the Zulu country. He rode 110 miles from 9 p. m. one day to 5 p. m. the next. His ride was in six stages and at each stage he obtained refreshments and a fresh horse. He had guides and an escort part of the way, and followed a well-marked trail across the country made by an advancing army of 6,000 men. The ride was really wonderful; but what would they say to such sides as those made across the trackless plains and forests of our great Western country with the dread probability that at any moment the flying hoof beats of the steed might be stopped by the whizzing of an Indian ball or arrow and the bones of both horse and rider left to bleach and whiten on the desolate plain? Rankin, the scout who rode out of Payne's lines and carried to Rawlins the intelligence of the plight of what was left of Thornburg's command, made a remarkable ride and well worthy the attention of the muse of history. "Buffalo Bill," in his autobiography recently published, presents some figures which are worthy the attention of those who are disposed to glorify dangerous and difficult rides.
In August, 1808, "Buffalo Bill". rode in twelve hours from Fort Larned to Fort Zarah and back, sixty-five miles; in the succeeding twelve hours he carried dispatches to General Sheridan from Fort Larned to Fort Hayes, sixty-five miles. From Fort Hayes he rode in the next twenty-four hours to Fort Dodge, ninety-five miles; on the next night he went to Fort Larned, thirty-five miles on foot and thirty miles on a mule; and again the next night from Fort Larned to Fort Hayes, sixty-five miles. He made on horses, mules, and afoot 355 miles, and he was in the saddle or afoot fifty-eight hours. These successive rides were made through a rough, irregular county, swarming with hostile Indians, where there were no roads and hardily a perceptible trail, which had to be followed in the obscurity of the night. Early in life Buffalo Bill made a continuous ride of 322 miles, making that distance in the incredibly short time of twenty-two hours, a wonderful feat of human endurance. Buffalo Bill with a troupe of twenty four artists appears at Clough's Opera House, this evening, in the new play, Knight of the Plains.
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BUFFALO BILL
Will appear at Comstock's Opera House Thursday evening. No man in the business can produce longer or more enthusiastically written press notices. Mr. Cody's plays, and company, and management, while of the border drama character, is unlike that of others in the same line. It has the stamp of a successful business tact about it that suits the public. Hence the large business.