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great struggle for possesstion will be ended, and generations will settle down to enjoy their fathers located and fenced in for them. Then will come the picture maker - he who, with pen, pencil and panel, can tell the story as he understands it. Then millions will read and look at what the pioneer did and what the historian related, wishing on the whole that they could have been there to have seen the original. These are some of the thoughts to crowd in upon us as we view the great living picture that the Hon. Wm. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") gives at the Wild West Exhibition, which every man, woman and child the world ever should see and study as a realistic fact.

We see audiences of thousands each night - statesmen, artists, military men, teachers, workers, musicians, business men, politicians, artisans, mechanics and others who desire to know as much as possible of the history of America.

We see "Buffalo Bill" the last of the six greatest scouts this country has ever known, viz.,BOONE, CROCKETT, CARSON, BRIDGER, "Wild Bill," and "Buffalo Bill," - to our mind the greateest and most remarkable of all - a man whom this country will never duplicate. A nonesuch to the credit of Nature, the world and the mental and physical material of which he was forned, as one made to do a certain great work. A man in the prime of life, who from the age of ten years, has fought fate and all adverse circumstances, and never to a loss. A man who is a man; as a scout as a pioneer; as a Government officer; as an Indian hunter; as a mighty hunter; as a man of honor, and of more than ordinary skill and courage, commanding admiration - deserving of recognition as a great character in American history. A natural man of the highest order. - Editorial New York Democrat, June 5, 1886.

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OLD TIME CAMP IN THE WILD WEST; OR, ON THE PLATTE IN 1857.

BUFFALO BILL AT HOME - HIS GREAT SUCCESS ABROAD.
(From the North Platte Telegraph, 1884)

"North Platte should be congratulated on the possession of a citizen whose prominence or position is not bounded by his township, his county or his State, but whose name is a household word, whose pictures are familiar, and whose character is known not only throughout the nation, but has adorned pages and interested the readers of foreign works and publications. We allude to our fellow-citizens, Hon. Wm. F. Cody, whose sobriquet of 'Buffalo Bill' represents a popularity only bounded by the area of American territory, and to which we, who live by his own fireside, may testify his worthy possession and the modesty of its wearing. His late return from a successful presentation to the East of some of the animated daily scenes and incidents that go to form the passing history of the 'Wild West' should be noted, as are events of importance, as it marks a new era in the history of amusements: - For originality, adherence to truth in 'holding the mirror up to Nature,' and a fidelity to fact that is the 'true aim of art.' The reception accorded to his 'show that is not a show, but an Illustration,' in the cultured cities of the East, notably Boston, Chicago, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, must be gratifying to all in North Platte; in fact, in Nebraska, where, in the incipiency of the scheme, over a year ago, he demonstrated by courage, pluck, and perserverance, its feasibility, by its introduction in the festivities of our national birthday celebration, and on the following natal day presented it on the shores of the Atlantic, to the plaudits of over 25,000 delighted Bostonians. The magnitude of the undertaking, teh minute necessary to organising, the bringing together from all points the best marksmen in teh world, securing admirable and fitting representatives to the cattle trade, getting wild buffalo, elk, steers, mules, ponies, specimens of the red terrors of the prairie, and other features of interest known only to the pampas of the West - necessitating special trains of cars for transportation, and driving the strange cavalcade through confirmed Washington Street, Boston, in six weeks after leaving the Platte - was an accomplishment that stamps Cody as a wonder in energy, and gained for him the admiration and ecnomiums of the entire press of the East, recognition from the Elite of American society, encouragement from representatives of education, and the indorsement of his methods by the S.P.C.A. and its noted president Professor Henry Bergh.

MAVERICK JOE.
BY NATHAN KIRK GRIGGS.

- From Lyrics of the Lariat.

Don't know
of Maverick Joe,
That hunter of broncos in chief,
And who,
As every one knew,
Waard rich a Maverick thief?

It's strange,
Out here on the range,
That you haven't known of his name,
Nor heard
How ranchers were stirred
Because of his Maverick fame.

Well, then,
I'll whisper again,
That tale of the cow and bee kid,
Altho
Thought Maverick Joe,
The rick was a corker they did.

Out West,
With [word?] unblest,
He rangled for others a year,
While Badger,
As well as you may judge,
Occasionally offered him cheer.

One day,
With poker the play-
They came by no tenderfoot learned-
I hear
He rustled a [word?]
That wasn't quite [word] earned.

And then,
He built him a den,
Way out where the punches were few,
And there,
Tho not by the square,
He soon to a cattle-king grew.

'Twas queer
How often that steer
Raised calves for his Maverick "X" (cross),
This now.
I'm bound to allow,
His gain who some other one's loss,

One noon.
Along about June,
A Maverick daisy he saw-
The best,
And one that he [guessed?]
He'd own by the Maverick law.

And so
He [word] it low,
And gave it a touch of his brand,
Then smiled,
For former begiled,
That happiness chump in the land.

Next morn,
As sure as I'm born,
It changed that a round-up begun,
And then, Some blundering men
Caught as to the caper be'd door.

For now,
They've circled a cow,
One hearinga. "-" (square) on her side,
That bawled,
And motherly called,
As sight of his Maverick pride.

The kid
Then bellowed and slid,
And buckled right in for a meal's
And - well,
It's idle to tell
The feelings he couldn't canceal.

Tho caughs,
He swore it was [boughs?],
Where never a seller was night;
But all,
The praising his grail.
Yet reckoned no cattle would lie.

And thus,
that ornery [clue?]
Got "cinched" on account of that pair;
Because,
By cattlemen's laws,
A "X" shouldn't tackle a "-"

THE PAWANEES ASTONISHED.

W. F. Cody, although having established his right to the title of "BUFFALO BILL" for years before, had not had opportunity to convince the Pawnees of the justice of his claim previous to the time of the following incident. A short while previously a band of marauding red-skin renegades from that nation, while on a stealing excursion near Ellsworth, had occassion to regret their temerity, and cause to remember him to the extent of three killed, which fact for a time resulted in an enmity that needed something out of the usual run to establish him in their favour. While on a military expedition, under Gen. E. A. Carr, upon