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Masterly Manhood
There is one predominant feature of The Wild West and Congress of Roughriders of the World which especially challenges administration and respect. It is out and through and through the manliest exhibition of our day and probably all the days since the birth of Adam- has ever seen, and the peer of which in that respect, as well as many others, neither the immediate nor remote future will
THE INDIAN AS HE IS
The men who "do something" accomplish more than their perfected task, as they leave a basis on which younger people are inspired to emulate, copy and improve. Thus Schreyvogel, Cross Russel, and the former master; Remington and Catlin, have not only done good work as producers, but also as teachers whose brilliant depiction of distant scenes has recruited scholars to the art preservative.
Among the many promising young artists, whose tastes have been whetted for this special line of work, is Mr. Joseph Scheurle, of Chicago, who, like his predecessor, has made
"WATCHING AND WAITING"
THE OLD STAGECOACH STARTS ON ITS FAITHFUL JOURNEY
be at all likely to produce or approach. Without exception, the hundreds of representatives from the various enlightened, civilized, semibarbarous and sayage nations include in its anthropological, military equestrian and tribal division are nature's noblemen in physiques, fearless audacity, consummate skill in equestrianism.
his studies "on the spot." He has for the past few years roamed around and lived with the remnants of the picturesque aborigines, and reveled in nature's studio with its inspiring scenes, atmosphere, and as to animal and man-nature created models.
Some of his studies from nature will be found on the next pages.
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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
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the Park from that station necessitated a hundred-mile journey by stage, no railroad being permitted to pass its boundary lines. This state of affairs, as Col. Cody vigorously insisted virtually transformed the Park into rich man's scenic paradise, which it was as impossible for those of limited and even ordinary means, when hailing from states to the south of it, to reach and enjoy as it would be for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. In fact, for all practical purposes is was as distant from them
ON ONE OF THE CODY CATTLE RANGES
as the planet Mars, until Col. Cody's enterprise induced The Burlington Railroad to run a branch line down through the valley of
THE CITY OF CODY, WYOMING (Named in Honor of its Founder)
Shoshone to Cody, which is located but forty miles from the southeast corner of the Park. It is here that the Government Reclamation Service has just completed the highest dam in the world, with total height of 328.4 feet; 175 feet in length and 108 feet wide at the bottom, completely blocking the great gorge and forming a reservoir or lake with a surface of over ten square miles and irrigation supply sufficient for more than 100,000 acres of land in the Big Horn Basin. The general Government co-operated with the county authorities at Cody in building a splendid wagon road from the town to the Park and on to the foot of Yellowstone Lake situated therein, through the most varied, transcendently beautiful and awe-inspiring scenery, of which description can convey, no adequate conception, well worth a journey round the globe to look upon, and at the threshold of which one may land in a palace car, via the "Great Burlington Route" from every section of the country.
THE HIGHEST DAM IN THE WORLD
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