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Show in Chengs-Worlds Fair 1893.
HISTORY'S REPRESENTATIVE EXHIBITION
WHICH LIKE THE UNSUBSTANTIAL PAGEANT OF A VISION FADED, "MUST SOON FOREVER PASS AWAY.
BUFFALO BILL'S
WILD WEST
AND
CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS
OF THE WORLD
COL. W. F. CODY (BUFFALO BILL) PRESIDENT.
WITH MANY NEW FEATURES GREAT ADDITIONAL INTEREST. THE ONLY EXHIBITION OF ITS KIND ON EARTH THE SUCCESS AND EVENT OF THE AGE A NEW EDUCATIONAL ERA AND AN INTERNATIONAL TRIUMPH
NATE SALSBURY
VICE PRESIDENT & MANAGER
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Realism Throned in Nature's Temple
COMING! BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST AND CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD.
TENTED ON TWO CONTINENTS
THE GREAT ALEXANDER EXCELLED OLD AND NEW WORLD CAPTIVATED
ALWAYS ON TIME
CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR 1895
SUCCESS
1895
PARIS EXPOSITION 1889
BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST NEBRASKA
THE CENTURY'S ENTERPRISE
DEFINED ALONE BY THE WORLD
IMMENSITY
MORE HORSES, MEN, AND CARS, THAN ANY TWO EXHIBITIONS.
ALL TIME'S GREATEST AND MOST FAMOUS EXHIBITION
IT TOWERS ALONE, IN SOLITARY AND MAGNETIC GRANDEUR.
HAVING MORE HORSES THAN ANY OTHER EVER HAD
More Chivarious Characters and Peerless Riders than All Others Combined Could Gather; More Living Lessons in Romantic History: More Magnificent Equestrian Reviews: More Brilliant and Colossal Warlike Pageants and Maneuvers: More Thrilling, Glorious and Realistic Reproductions of Battle Scenes, Savage Forays and Mortal Combats; More Strange People and Phenomenal Races and Performances; More Illustrations of Free Frontier Life, than were ever before Revealed to Public View, UNTIL COL. CODY MADE
TWO WORLDS TOUCH HANDS ACROSS THE SEA
BUFFALO BILL (COL. W. F. CODY) LEADING THE CAVALRY OF ALL NATIONS
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IT AMAZES
NOW PRESENTING WITH STUPENDOUS SIMILARITY AND PERFECT ACCURACY OF DETAIL, UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE TO ANY OTHER EXHIBITION OR MANAGEMENT.
A SPECTACLE AND TABLEAU OF CUSTER'S LAST BATTLE
ON THE LITTLE BIG HORN; SO SURPASSINGLY AND COLOSSALLY TRUE TO HISTORY AND HEROIC, WARLIKE ACTION THAT IT INTRODUCES
EIGHT HUNDRED CHIEFS, BRAVES, SOLDIERS, SCOUTS, AND HORSES
WITH EVERY ACCESSORY OF ARMS, ACCOTREMENTS AND SAVAGE DECORATION.
Some of the {articipating Indian Warriors Having Themselves been Present in the Dreadful Annihilating Struggle Represented, and the Horses Taught to Simulate Death upon the Battlefield with Harrowing and Touching Accuracy.
NOTHING SHORT OF THE AWFUL REALITY OF THE FURIOUS CONFLICT AND MASSACRE, IT SO TREMENDOUSLY AND MASTERFULLY REPRODUCES COULD EVEN FEEBLY EMULATE ITS TERRIFIC LIFELIKE GLORIES.
IT ENLIGHTENS
DANCING DELIGHTS OF DIFFICULT EQUITATION.
COWBOYS, WILD WEST GIRLS, AND SAGACIOUS BRONCOS
IN THE NOVEL AND ENTERTAINING INTRODUCTION OF
The Virginia Reel on Horseback,
EVERY FIGURE OF THAT OLD-FASHIONED, POPULAR AND MERRY DANCE BEING REPRODUCED IN PERFECT TIME TO THE LIVELY MUSIC OF
THE FAMOUS COWBOY BAND
IT OVERWHELMS
WHOSE INCONCEIVABLY OVERPOWERING APOTHEOSIS OF MORTAL COMBAT IS
THE ILLUSTRIOUS TABLEAU OF CUSTER'S LAST STAND
AND HEROIC FALL.
There Never Was, There Never Will Be, in All the Annals of Imperial or Popular Tragic and Memorial Revival and Display Anything Remotely Rivaling the Magnitude and Historic Nobility of this Production. No Other Exhibition on Earth Has Either the Space, or the Numerical Strength and Material to Achieve It.
IT IS A LESSON IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN HEROISM TO BE VIVIDLY REMEMBERED FOR A LIFETIME.
IT ENTHRALLS
THE WILD WEST AND THE WILD EAST UNITED.
Prince Ben Hadj Tahar's Troupe of Bedouin Arabs
IN A DESERT, ISHMAELITISH REPERTORY OF PRODIGIOUS FEATS OF DEXTERITY AND STRENGTH.
ATHLETES OF HERCULEAN MUSCLE AND LEAPARD-LIKE AGILITY.
IN MARVELOUS MUSKET MANIPULATIONS,
PROLONGED WHIRLING DANCES, HIGH HUMAN PYRAMIDS, PHENOMENALLY STRANGE AND RAPID REVOLVING FLIGHTS, AND OTHER UNIQUELY INIMITABLE INNOVATIONS.
IT AMAZES
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ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE PRESENTED, IN UNOURTAILED PERFECTION.
UNDER THE PERSONAL DIRECTION OF COL. W. F. CODY -- "BUFFALO BILL"
WHO POSITIVELY AND INVARIABLY APPEARS AT EACH PERFORMANCE.
IN THE MOST STUPENDOUS OF ALL ARENAS
Canopied Only by the Arching SKies. Brilliantly Flooded with Electric Lights,
Supplied by Enormous Double Portable Dynamos of 250,000 Candle-power.
WITH SEATS FOR 20,000 PEOPLE
PERFECTLY PROTECTED FROM RAIN AND SUN.
THE SPECTATORS UNDER DRY and SHADY SHELTER THE PERFORMERS IN THE OPEN AIR.
Eleven Hundred Men and Horses Massed
NOT A Single Commonplace Participant. One Cheap or Inferior Creature. A Shred of Masquerading Make-up. An Ounce of Tawdriness or Tinsel. One Production Elsewhere Exhibited.
EVERYTHING SURPASSINGLY UNIQUE AND NOVEL
NO ACTORS. EACH AND ALL ORIGINALS.
No Imitation Indians, but Noble Chiefs and Warriors. Not Feebly Histrionic, but Powerfully Historic. No Canvases, no Rings, no Knock-abouts, or Fools. Riders of Whom there Is No Room in Tents. Those who have been a Part of what they Show. Each One an Object Teacher of his Race, Conspicuous Amid Brave and Daring Men.
Nations and Nomads in Martial Rivalry
THE WILD WEST AND THE WILD EAST UNITED.
DETACHMENTS FROM THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD.
THE FIRST EQUESTRAINS OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA
BAREBACK RIDING NO PROFESSIONALS CAN EQUAL. REGULAR ARTILLERY, JUST AS IN ACTION.
SEMI-SAVAGE COSSACK TROOPERS IN TRIUMPHS OF EQUITATION
Marksmen, such as Only Frontier Life could Furnish. Arabian Athletes of Prodigious Skill. The Old Virginia Real as Danced on Horseback. Cowboy Riders and Outlawed Bucking Bronchos. Vaquero and Gaucho Lariat and Bolas Kings. . . . . . . .
PICTURES OF THRILLING SCENES IN BORDER LIFE
FIERCELY SUGGESTIVE SPECTACLES OF WAR AND FORAY.
REALITIES OF WHICH A TITHE CANNOT BE TOLD.
CUSTER'S LAST, FATAL, BATTLE ON THE LITTLE BIG HORN
NOW ADDED THE COLOSSAL, GROWING SPECTACLE OF COMBAT AND CARNAGE IN WHICH
EIGHT HUNDRED SIOUX, SCOTUS, SOLDIERS AND HORSES
ARE SEEN IN FEARFULLY REALISTIC CONFLICT. Peace will Never See Another such a Tremendously Graphic Lesson of War's Unmitigated Horrors.
The Courier Company, Buffalo, N. Y., Show Printing House, the Largest in the World; Fire-Proof.
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A POTENTIAL PIONEER PAGEANT OF THE PLAINS BUFFALO BILL'S SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT.
AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West
AND
CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WOLRD
LARGEST ARENIC EXHIBITION KNOWN IN HISTORY
COL. W. F. CODY
NATE SALSBURY
Greater, Grander, and More Realistic Than Ever Before. Vastly Enlarged in Scope and Splendor.
GRANDEST CONCOURSE OF THE GREATEST HORSEMEN OF HISTORY
And Crowning Equestrian Spectacle of the Agres. Astoundingly Replete with Feats of Skill and Facts More Fascinating than Fiction's Dream.