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24BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST BUFFALO BILL'S HOTEL - "THE IRMA" AT CODY, WYOMING "THE CODY TRAIL THROUGH WONDERLAND" Tennyson says: "Kind words are more than coronets;" which may be as truthfully supplemented with the assertion that kind deeds are more than words, as shown by the U. S. Government in its dealings with Col W F. Cody. Having honored him with that most prized military decorations, the Congressional Medal, an insignia that stamps the wearer as citizens to an important public improvement, thus honorably and enduringly perpetuating it, it amounts to a great deal. This has been done in Col. Cody's case and under the following circumstances. Until recently, so far as visitors thereto are concerned, there was but one entrance to the National reservation world-famous as "Yellowstone Park," which was from the north via the Northern Pacific R. R. to Livingston, Montana and to reach BUFFALO BILL AT "PAHASKA TEEPEE" (On the Cody Trail Through Wonderland) one entitled from his "forlorn hope" record, to enrollment on the roster of army-fame, among those who have achieved imperishable distinction, Uncle Sam has added exceptional favors as recognition for the invaluable assistance his great educational exhibition has rendered in the exceedingly difficult humanitarian task of pacifying and instructing the Indian, and reconciling his fierce warlike spirit and restless and suspicious nomadic nature to the restrictions of a settled peaceful life. To answer Shakespeare's query, "What's in a name?" a convincing reply may be made in a statement of the fact that when a great government attaches the name of one of its ON THE CODY TRAIL 26 | 24BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST BUFFALO BILL'S HOTEL - "THE IRMA" AT CODY, WYOMING "THE CODY TRAIL THROUGH WONDERLAND" Tennyson says: "Kind words are more than coronets;" which may be as truthfully supplemented with the assertion that kind deeds are more than words, as shown by the U. S. Government in its dealings with Col W F. Cody. Having honored him with that most prized military decorations, the Congressional Medal, an insignia that stamps the wearer as citizens to an important public improvement, thus honorably and enduringly perpetuating it, it amounts to a great deal. This has been done in Col. Cody's case and under the following circumstances. Until recently, so far as visitors thereto are concerned, there was but one entrance to the National reservation world-famous as "Yellowstone Park," which was from the north via the Northern Pacific R. R. to Livingston, Montana and to reach BUFFALO BILL AT "PAHASKA TEEPEE" (On the Cody Trail Through Wonderland) one entitled from his "forlorn hope" record, to enrollment on the roster of army-fame, among those who have achieved imperishable distinction, Uncle Sam has added exceptional favors as recognition for the invaluable assistance his great educational exhibition has rendered in the exceedingly difficult humanitarian task of pacifying and instructing the Indian, and reconciling his fierce warlike spirit and restless and suspicious nomadic nature to the restrictions of a settled peaceful life. To answer Shakespeare's query, "What's in a name?" a convincing reply may be made in a statement of the fact that when a great government attaches the name of one of its ON THE CODY TRAIL 26 |