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After ruturning from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody - who, upon coming from London, had gone direct to his home in North Platte - in company with Major Mildmay and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado through upper Arizonia and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the rugged camp life, and it gave rest as it gave refreshment to mind and body, as this was a visit to one of the most interestingly picturesque sections on God Almighty's earth. This last taste of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visitors, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his childhood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regards its civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.

Finishing this slight recreation after a six years trip in Europe and a campaign with General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe - to be in conjunction with the "Wild West" features - an now known as the "Congress of Rough Riders of the World," for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Salsbury, the able and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought and judgment that has characterized his career, had succeeded in securing (at an enormous rental) one of the most valuable squares of ground in the immediate proximity to Jackson Park, so accessible in location and so convenient to the marvelous Exhibition as to become quickly identified as an adjunct to the same. Animated interest was at once enlisted in subjects neglected in the organization of that grandest of international expositions - the American Indians, and primitive and military horsemen; and so great was the instantaneous and phenomenal success that the Wild West became publicly and semi-officially recognized as "the World's Fair's most popular annex."

The two fitted each other from the fact that the stupendous collection of $300,000,000 worth of exhibits and architectural frame-work, eclipsing in effect and artisitc delicacy the dream of the wildest enthusiast, combining, as it did, the constructive developments and arsistic beauties of ages of edificial experiences and education - represented the development of man's progressive possibilities in art, science and mechanism to such an exceeding degree as to leave forever on the pages of civilization's grandest achievement the fame of the "White City" of that West whose aboriginal owners and their primitive confreres - representing the nomadic past - were an educative, thoughtful, sentimental and pathetic key to the Golconda adjoining, as they in primitive garb impressed the multitudes with the starting point of man by their lingering still on the scene of life to such an extent as to leave the little less famous and always to be remembered annex, "Buffalo Bill's Tented City."

Encouraged by this success (notwithstanding the enormous investment necessary to its proper placing), Messrs. Cody and Salsbury determined to find a situation accessible and convenient to the most favorably located of cities, the most favorably located of cities, the cosmopolitan centre of the nineteenth century's progress and the no doubt future Metropolis of the Globe,

"GREATER NEW YORK."

The point selected includes what is now called Ambrose Park, adjoining 38th Street Ferry, South Brooklyn, where the present colossal improvements have been errected on a spot of interest - in fact, historic ground. On what isnow 35th street and third avenue commenced the decisive game of strategy between the Father of our Country (General George Washington) and the English general, Lord Cornwallis, and known in the annals of that heroic struggle for liberty of the American people as the "Battle of Long Island." The engagement concluded, General Washington took advantage of teh recessibility of this point to evade the superior re-enforcements of the evening

After ruturning from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody - who, upon coming from London, had gone direct to his home in North Platte - in company with Major Mildmay and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado through upper Arizonia and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the rugged camp life, and it gave rest as it gave refreshment to mind and body, as this was a visit to one of the most interestingly picturesque sections on God Almighty's earth. This last taste of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visitors, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his childhood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regards its civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.

Finishing this slight recreation after a six years trip in Europe and a campaign with General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe - to be in conjunction with the "Wild West" features - an now known as the "Congress of Rough Riders of the World," for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Salsbury, the able and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought and judgment that has characterized his career, had succeeded in securing (at an enormous rental) one of the most valuable squares of ground in the immediate proximity to Jackson Park, so accessible in location and so convenient to the marvelous Exhibition as to become quickly identified as an adjunct to the same. Animated interest was at once enlisted in subjects neglected in the organization of that grandest of international expositions - the American Indians, and primitive and military horsemen; and so great was the instantaneous and phenomenal success that the Wild West became publicly and semi-officially recognized as "the World's Fair's most popular annex."

The two fitted each other from the fact that the stupendous collection of $300,000,000 worth of exhibits and architectural frame-work, eclipsing in effect and artisitc delicacy the dream of the wildest enthusiast, combining, as it did, the constructive developments and arsistic beauties of ages of edificial experiences and education - represented the development of man's progressive possibilities in art, science and mechanism to such an exceeding degree as to leave forever on the pages of civilization's grandest achievement the fame of the "White City" of that West whose aboriginal owners and their primitive confreres - representing the nomadic past - were an educative, thoughtful, sentimental and pathetic key to the Golconda adjoining, as they in primitive garb impressed the multitudes with the starting point of man by their lingering still on the scene of life to such an extent as to leave the little less famous and always to be remembered annex, "Buffalo Bill's Tented City."

Encouraged by this success (notwithstanding the enormous investment necessary to its proper placing), Messrs. Cody and Salsbury determined to find a situation accessible and convenient to the most favorably located of cities, the most favorably located of cities, the cosmopolitan centre of the nineteenth century's progress and the no doubt future Metropolis of the Globe,

"GREATER NEW YORK."

The point selected includes what is now called Ambrose Park, adjoining 38th Street Ferry, South Brooklyn, where the present colossal improvements have been errected on a spot of interest - in fact, historic ground. On what isnow 35th street and third avenue commenced the decisive game of strategy between the Father of our Country (General George Washington) and the English general, Lord Cornwallis, and known in the annals of that heroic struggle for liberty of the American people as the "Battle of Long Island." The engagement concluded, General Washington took advantage of teh recessibility of this point to evade the superior re-enforcements of the evening