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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
COMBINED WITH PAWNEE BILL'S GREAT FAR EAST
COPYRIGHT 1909 The Courier Co. of Buffalo
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BUFFALO BILL'S FAR EAST
A WONDERFUL EXHIBITION
The union of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East gives to the amusement loving public a combined entertainment unsurpassed in the history of the world. Each enterprise has for more than a quarter century held the confidence and of the citizens of two continents. Each exhibition complete in itself, now contributes its distinctive features to a combined entertainment of surpassing interest and unquestioned superiority. Two hemispheres are represented; the people and pastimes of two continents are depicted. Historic and accurate in every detail Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East Combined presents to an admiring public an ethnological exhibition, the equal of which has never before been approached, and can never again be duplicated. In one arena the onlooker witnesses varied exhibitions of horsemanship, wherein the dusky-skinned Arabian vies with the American cowboy in displays of equestrian expertness; the camp life of the native American Indian is shown in contrast to the nomadic domiciles of the desert-born Bedouin; Russian Cossacks, the proudest representatives of the Czar's cavalry, display their saddle expertness in contrast to the horsemanship of Uncle Sam's soldiery; the slow but sure camel and the lumbering and bulky elephant may be compared with the agil and bucking broncho and the prancing steed of the exhibition arena. The splendors of the Orient are contrasted with the aboriginal feathers and finery of the American Indian.
A BEDOUIN ENCAMPMENT IN THE DESERT.
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BUFFALO BILL'S FAREWELL
Proclamation
TO THE PUBLIC:
AFTER MANY YEARS of almost constant devotion to my calling, I have determined to retire from active service at the expieration of a final and complete tour of the American continent. THEREFORE, following a series of "Farewell Exhibitions" which I hope to give in 1911 and 1912, I shall permanently abandon the arena, and seek to enjoy some of the fruits of my labors, which I feel that I have well earned during a long life of activity on the frontier, in the field during the Civil and Indian Wars, and as a provider of the most approved drama of our National History.
IT IS, however, my earnest desire to once more salute from the saddle my millions of friends and patrons, and I take this opportunity to emphatically state that this will be my
LAST, SOLE AND ONLY PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCE in the cities and towns nominated in the present itinerary, as it is my purpose to leave the active management of the great Educational Exhibition, which I have created, in the hands of my partner, Major G. W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill), and his associates who will continue the enterprise on the same magnificent scale and true fidelity that I have always tried to maintain, but without my personal presence in the saddle.
AND NOW that I have reached this unalterable conclusion, I want to thank my numerous friends and the public for the full measure of success and applause that they have bestowed upon me, and I know of no honor that I shall cherish more than their good wishes, while the silent years are lurking in ambush for "The Old Scout," and at the conclusion of each and every performance I shall bid my numerous friends a fond farewell.
Yours, always and sincerely,
W. F. CODY "Buffalo Bill"
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
COMBINED WITH PAWNEE BILL'S GREAT FAR EAST
WILL SOON BE HERE
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PAWNEE BILL'S FAR EAST
A SPIRITED AND GROTESQUE GAME OF FOOT-BALL ON HORSEBACK BETWEEN COWBOYS AND INDIANS.
AN EXACT HISTORICAL REPRODUCTION OF THE BATTLE OF SUMMIT SPRINGS IN WHICH COL. W. F. CODY ("BUFFALO BILL") PARTICIPATED AS CHIEF SCOUT UNDER COMMAND OF GEN. EUGENE A. CARR.
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