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A PARTING TRIBUTE TO COL. WILLIAM F. CODY ON HIS FAREWELL TOUR
Hail to the chief! With banners unfurled Salute the "Old Scout" -the prince of his clan Bearing our flag aloft over the world; Western-born type of the pioneerman; Hail, conquering spirit-American!
Hail to the chief of the pony express; Dauntless boy rider-a wild Lochinvar Heedless of bullets, or scalp knife caress, Desert or canyon-his trail fast and far Solving the pathfinder's route by a star.
Hail to the chief of the old army scouts, Tracker of savage hordes-blazing the way Answering warshoops with battle-cry shouts; Most war hero of many a fray, When Sheridan, Custer, or Miles won the day.
Hail to the chief! With his comrades in arms Fronting two wars to their glorious end; Friend of the settler in savage alarms, Friend of the red man deserving a friend, Ready to fight-as prompt to defend.
Hail to the chief of the old border life, Strenuous, long years of life on the plains. Herald and sharer of peace-winning strife, Conquering spirit of courage and brains, "Westward Ho" pilot when wagons were trains.
Hail to the chief! With his "Wild West" to-day Graving time's footprints on history's page; The red man's grim passing, the paleface's sway, The birth-throes of empire portrayed stage by stage, Re-living the scenes of a fast-fading age.
Hail to the chief! 'Tis a "Hail and Farewell;" Answer, vox populi, your part fulfill; "Our of the saddle," at ease may he dwell World-honored at home in his own Codyville' Prince of good fellows, our "Buffalo Bill." "So say we all of us, so say we all."
New York, February 2, 1910 For the Veterans of the Old Army J.H.J., U.S. Vola '61-'65
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An Oriental Feature Elephant, Horse, Pony and People in a Thrilling Act
A striking feature of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Pawnee Bill Far East is the elephant, horse and pony act of Maximilian Gruber and Miss Adelina. Performing horses and performing elephants there are in plenty, but it seldom is that they are combined, and never in all hisotry has there been an act similar to the one presented in the Wild West-Far East this season. The horse is a thoroughbred and comes from Australia; the elephant from
MAXIMILIAN GRUBER'S MARVELOUS PERFORMING ANIMALS
India, and was once ridden by the present King of England; and the pony is a Shetland, thirty-two inches high. The elephant walks over the horse; stepping between its prostrate legs it dances, cakewalks, plays musical instruments, tosses its master high in the air, permits Miss Adelina to put her head in its gaping mouth, will bring its foot down to a god watch lying on the floor so close that a piece of paper cannot be slipped between, and finally grasps the Shetland around the waist with its trunk raising him high in the air and carries it around the arena. To the onlooker it would seem that the pony, a diminutive little thing, is in imminent peril, but the two are fast friends-in fact the elephant takes as much care of the baby horse as if it were the mother. When Mr. Gruber was playing an engagement in London last year he had a chance to buy the pony. One afternoon it got loose in the stable and wandered to the elephant's stall-as a rule the jungle monsters do not like strange horses, but the two became friends from the first. Miss Adelina, who assists Mr. Gruber in the performance, is the young lady who won the International Beauty metal last June in Paris. 19
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
BY PERMISSION OF FREDERIC REMINGTON FROM MRS MEIEM CODY WITMORE'S BOOK THE LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS
COL.W.F.CODY (BUFFALO BILL) INTRODUCING HIS CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD.
FREDERICK REMINGTON'S PICTURE OF "BUFFALO BILL" AND HORSE
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
History With Its Makers
There is no sham, no imitation, no make-believe, no deception, no exaggeration, no affectation, no misrepresentation, no staleness about this, the original and only genuine Wild West exhibition. It is history revived and perpetuated by the presence of the brave and hardy men who helped to make it, and in many instances sealed it with their blood in desperate battles and fierce personal encounters with the most formidable and resourceful of all savage foes. In this and n the addition to its living lessons of a "Congress of Rough Riders of The World", which is besides the rarest and most instructive Ethnological exhibit ever organized, it is as far apart from any and all other entertainments as the distance between the poles.
"GUIDING AND GUARDING"
Cody and Sheridan
In his autobiography Gen. Phil. Sheridan acknowledges the highly-important service performed by "Buffalo Bill" in rendering his first winter campaign against the Indians successful. In the discharge of his duties as scout, Buffalo Bill, braving all dangers, defying all obstacles, and facing the howling blizzards and intense, deadly cold of an unusually severe winter for even the region in which the army was attempting to carry on aggressive movements, succeeded in finding the General's snow-bound and severely-suffering command, and volunteered to carry dispatches to two other widely-separated detachments, and to return with reports from them. It seemed a superhuman feat to accomplish under such
"HERE COME THE COWBOYS"
conditions and in a country swarming with hostiles, but he did it, and re-established communications, which enabled Sheridan to move his forces in concerted action. In the accomplishment of this terrible task Sheridan reported that Buffalo Bill "rode three hundred and ffity miles in less than sixty hours"-an unprecedented and almost incredible achievement for which the General made him "Chief of Scouts," which position he also filled with honor and complete success under General Nelson A. Miles until the close of the campaign of 1890.
Plain kindness long outwears the painted kind.
Indian may not know much, but what he knows is worth remembering
COL. CODY GIVES HIS CHIEFS SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS
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