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No. 910. - Vol. XXXV. Registered as a Newspaper SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1887 TWO EXTRA SUPPLEMENTS PRICE SIXPENCE By Post Sixpence Halfpenny
View of the Camp - taken from alongside of the tent of Buck Taylor, The King of the Cowboys Scaffolding of grandstand in distance to the right The tent on left is "Redshirts" (The Senior Chief) The tent on right of Drawing is Buffalo Bills
The Hon. W. B. Cody "Buffalo Bill" Art Critics The Deadwood Mail Coach Our of Natures Nobles? Buck Taylor (King of the Cowboys) and his horse "Chieftan" "Nigger": The horse with a mane in the middle of his back. John Nelson Guard of the Deadwood Coach This is his scalp lock. CORBOULD Buffalo Bill's Old Charlie 20 years old We sketch each other. The Pop-gun Puzzle
BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST SHOW AT THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION, EARL'S COURT
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Buffalo Bill in England.
At this distance it looks as if the British aristocracy were accepting Buffalo Bill's Wild West show as fairly representative of American life. Even Mr. Gladstone said, at Buffalo Bill's lunch party, that "There was nothing more desirable on this side of the water than a true and accurate representation of the American World." There was a time in England when the word "American" suggested to English minds the idea of semi savage. The average American was supposed to live on horseback and divide his time between hunting buffaloes and Indians. The Buffalo Bill show will revive that idea. The man who gives the show its name is as fine a specimen of American manhood as is often met, but where one sees the man thousands will see the show, Mr. Gladstone does not, of course, imagine that the border drama he witnessed is in any sense representative of the American world which is known in Europe, but his speech may lead others less well informed to think that it represents something more than a phase of civilication which can be found only on the frontiers. Mr. Gladstone was entirely right in assuming that is was a commercial speculation, but he was mistaken in the assumption that it was more than that. It is that and nothing else, Buffalo Bill does not care what England thinks of America, but he woudl like to fill his capacious pockets with English sovergns. S.F. Call.
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Buffalo Bill in Britain
The Hon. William F. Coey has written to an old comrade of El Paso a glowing account of his experience in England. "It's pretty hard work he says, "with two and three performances a day, and the society racket, receptions, dinners, etc. No man, not even Grant, was received better than your humble servant. I have dined with every one of the royalty from Albert Prince of Wales, down. I sometimes wonder if it is the same old Bill Cody, the bullwhacker. Well Colonel, I still wear the same sized hat, and when I make my fill I am coming back to visit all the old boys. If you meet any of them tell them I ain't got the big head worth a cent, I am over here for dust.