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Buffalo Bill's Wild West AND Congress of Rough Riders of the World
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The honor of your company is requested at our opening entertainment,
Wednesday, April 26th, '93 at 3 p. m. Doors open for inspection of Camp at 1 p. m.
Location 63rd Street, between Madison and Stoney Island Avenues. Take any line of cars going south, direct to the entrance.
Nate Salsbury Vice-President and Manager.
W. F Cody, President.
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JOHN M. BURKE, Gen'l Manager.
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Journal July 14
Stole a Cowboy Race Prize
One of the prizes awarded in the cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago - a revolver presented to Joe Gillespie - was found in a pawnshop yesterday by its owner and soon thereafter Edward Crespon, one of Buffalo Bill's stable boys, was arrested, charged with stealing and pawning the trophy. Justice Porter fined Crespon $25 to-day.
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST AND CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD.
COL. W. F. CODY. NATE SALSBURY.
Programme
OVERTURE, "Star Spangled Banner" . . COWBOY BAND, WM. SWEENY, Leader
1- GRAND REVIEW introducing the Rough Riders of the World and Fully Equipped Regular Soldiers of the Armies of America, England, France, Germany, and Russia.
2 MISS ANNIE OAKLEY, Celebrated Shot, who will illustrate her dexterity in the use of Fire-arms.
3 - HORSE RACE between a Cowboy, a Cossack, a Mexican, an Arab, and an Indian, on Spanish Mexican, Broncho, Russain Indian and Arabian Horses.
4 -PONY EXPRESS. The Former Pony Post Rider will show how the Letters and Telegrams of the Republic were distributed across the immense Continent previous to the Railways and the Telegraph.
5 - ILLUSTRATING A PRAIRIE EMIGRANT TRAIN CROSSING THE PLAINS. Attack by marauding Indians repulsed by "Buffalo Bill," with Scouts and Cowboys. N. B. - The Wagons are the same as used 35 years ago.
6 -A GROUP OF SYRIAN AND ARABIAN HORSEMEN will illustrate their style of Horsemanship, with Native Sports and Pastimes
7 - COSSACKS, of the Caucasus of Russia, in Feats of Horsemanship, Native Dances, etc.
8 - JOHNNY BAKER, Celebrated Young American Marksman.
9 - A GROUP OF MEXICANS from Old Mexico, will illustrate the use of the Lasso, and perform various feats of Horsemanship.
10 - RACING BETWEEN PRAIRIE, SPANISH AND INDIAN GIRLS.
11 - COWBOY FUN. Picking objects from the ground. Lassoing Wild Horses. Riding the Buckers.
12 - MILITARY EVOLUTIONS by a Company of the Sixth Cavalry of the United States Army; a Company of the First Guard Uhlan Regiment of His Majesty King William II, German Emperor, popularly known as the "Potsdamer Reds"; a Company of French Chasseurs (Chasseurs a Cheval de las Garde Republique Francaise); and a Company of the 12th Lancers (Prince of Wales Regiment) of the British Army.
13 CAPTURE OF THE DEADWOOD MAIL COACH BY THE INDIANS, which will be rescued by "Buffalo Bill" and his attendant Cowboys.
N. B. - This is the identical old Deadwood Coach, called the Mail Coach, which is famous on account of having carried the great number of people who lost their lives on the road between Deadwood and Cheyenne 18 years ago. Now the most famous vehicle extant.
14 - RACING BETWEEN INDIAN BOYS ON BAREBACK HORSES.
15 - LIFE CUSTOMS OF THE INDIANS. Indian Settlement on the Field and "Path."
16 - COL. W. F. CODY, ("Buffalo Bill"), in his Unique Feats of Sharpshooting.
17 - BUFFALO HUNT, as it is the Far West of North America- "Buffalo Bill" and Indians. The last of the only known Native Herd.
18 - ATTACK ON A SETTLER'S CABIN Capture by the Indians- Rescue by "Buffalo Bill" and the Cowboys.
19 - SALUTE.
CONCLUSION.
Columbian Exposition News. April 1893.
HON. W. F. CODY ("Buffalo Bill")
Was born in Scott County, Iowa, from whence his father, Isaac Cody, emigrated a few years afterward to the distant frontier territory of Kansas, settling near Fort Leavenworth. While still a boy his father was killed in what is now known as the "Border War." and his youth was passed amid all the excitements and turmoil incident to the strife and discord of that unsettled community, where the embers of political contentions smoldered until they burst into the burning flame of civil war. This state of affairs among the white occupants of the territory and the ingrained ferocity and hostility to encroachment from the native savage, created an atmosphere of adventure well calculated to educate one of his natural temperament to a familiarity with danger, and self-reliance in the protective means for its avoidance.
From a child used is shooting and riding, he at an early age became a celebrated pony-express rider, the most dangerous occupation on the plains. He was known as a boy to be almost fearless and ready for any mission of danger and respected by such men then engaged in the express service as Old Jule and the terrible Slade, chose correct finale is truthfully told in Mark Twain's "Roughing It." He accompanied Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston on his Utah expedition, guided trains overland, hunted for a living, and gained his sobriquet by wrestling the buffalo in one day to Comstock's forty six-became scouts and guide for the now celebrated Fifth Cavalry (of which Gen. E. A. Carr was Major), and is thoroughly identified with that regiment's Western history; was chosen by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to supply meat to the laborers while building the road, in one season killing 4,862 buffaloes, besides deer and antelope; and was chief of scouts in U. S. department that protected the building of the Union Pacific. In these various duties, his encounters with the red men have been innumerable and are well there you meet an admirer and Andover of Buffalo Bill. He is, in fact, the representative man of the frontiersmen of the past- that is, not the bar-room bawler or bully of the settlements. But a genuine specimen of a Western manhood-a child of the plains, who was raised there, and familiar with the county previous to railroads, and when it was known on our maps as the "Great American Desert." By the accident of birth and early association, a man who becomes sensibly injured to the hardships and dangers of primitive existence and possessed of those qualities that afterward enabled him to hold position of trust, and, without his knowing of intending it, made him nationally famous.
Colombian Exposition News. April 1893.
NATE SALSBURY.
Vice President and Manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Every throne has a power behind it. The Iron Chancellor built and with his wonderful abilities upheld the throne of United Germany. Every business to be successful must have strong controlling but conservative influence behind it, and in the management of the multitudinous affairs of Buffalo Bill's Wild West this influence is exerted by Mr. Nate Salsbury, partner of Col. Cody, and the manager of the enterprise. Mr. Salsbury served his country well as a soldier in the late war, and after that spent many years as an actor and manager. As a prominent member of Hooly's Stock Company, he won hosts of friends and admirers in Chicago, and as the head of the famous run-makers. Salsbury's Troubadours, he extended his reputation not only throughout the length and breadth of this country but he took his company on a tour around the world, making the greatest success ever attained by American actors in foreign countries. With the record of success it was with confidence that he retired from the stage and bought a half interest in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and assumed the fall business control thereof. His record for ten years in all civilized Christian countries in control of the destinies of the Wild West has been a source of pride as of wonder to his friends. Shrewd, careful, and conservative, his advice has always been followed and Nate Salsbury stands today the peer of any amusement director who ever lived. The fact that under his eye a big square of open prairie covering fourteen acres should, against the weather and elements, prove such a grand place as Buffalo Bill's Chicago grounds, is proof sufficient of his great energy and executive ability. He is modest and one sees or hears little of him, especially in newspapers, and we consider we are favored in being able to present his portrait and pay this tribute to his worth as manager, which, while being so great, is really less than his worth as a man.
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
And Congress of Rough Riders of the World
Return to America fresh from foreign triumphs, enlarged and augmented, with added subjects of appropriate interest, which will be located between 62d and 63d streets, opposite the World's Fair main entrance, occupying fourteen acres. Arena, forest, camp, and covered grandstand seating 18,000 people. The central point on earth, regarding easy across from the Atlantic to the Pacific-North, South, East and West. For facilities to and from this most international celebration of the Columbian era, exhibiting as it does the native red man of America in action, his customs, traits, costumes, mode of life, etc., as Columbus discovered him, really forming a key to the past for the proper appreciation of the grand memorial Fair- in fact, a tonic to the great feast offered in the advance of the Industries, arts, sciences and civilization of the present, "holding, as 'twere, the mirror up to Nature."
Indorsed by all nations, annex feature of American exhibition Queen's Inhibition, London; Paris Universal Exposition, Richmond Exhibition, Pope Leo XIII's Jubliee, Rome; North German Exposition, Bremeu Industrial Fair, Barcelona and Verona- Venice Fetes, plaudits won from Presidents,
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Emperors, Kings, Queens, Shah, Pope, and peoples- a record that stands alone since the creation of the universe.
The biggest outdoor animated amusement exhibit extant or known, either ancient or modern. Life, action, skill, daring danger defied; one thousand animated pictures in two hours given by flesh and blood; creation's greatest handiwork, nature's noblest mechanism, too natural and colossal for canvas; or building. The grassy award our carpet, heaven's blue canopy our covering. In addition to the famed Wild West will be held the first congress of the primitive horsemen of the world, and all in the saddle- four hundred and fifty men of all nationalities and races in pages of passing history, genuine participants, forming an ethnological study, an equestrian revelation. The Biblical Oriental, famed in song and story; the Cossack, Tartar, Arab, the European, from the Magyar of Hungary to the Nomad of Russia's steppes, including selected cavalry; representatives of the grand armies of England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the United States, armed, mounted, and equipped.
The South American Gaucho, Mexican Ruralie, the Caballero of the Rio Grande, the red Indian Centaur of the American plains, the Sioux, Comanche, Pawnee, Blackfeet, Frontier Girls and Squaws, and the excelsior combination of the perfect equation, the Rough Rider of the Prairie, the now world-renowned American Cowboy, all in friendly Concours of methods and skill, forming an eclipse of equestrian exhibitions, a veritable school, the first time since Adam of the primitive styles and general equipment.
All in conjunction with the usual vivid scenes, battle tableaux, marksmanship and thrilling episodes in the Indian and pioneer history of the settlement and civilization of the American continent since the advent of Christopher Columbus. An affair of magnitude second to none in novel enjoyment, instruction, interest and educative merit. Note the location. Distribute the news to all.
The whole under the supervision of Col. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill").
NATE SALSBURY, Director.
N. B. Bureau of general information on the grounds. All modern languages spoken
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Replete with Everything Wonderful!
The Most Daring Acts of Man and Beast!
A Representative Congress of the Whole World!
Making a convenience of every Rideable Animal in the universe. The Greatest Riders, the Greatest Shots more Ladies, Gentlemen and Beasts ever seen in one exhibition. A truly American enterprise to be witnessed by the world. Railroads Motors, Elevated Road, Steamboats and street Cars to any part of the city. ENTRANCE TO WILD WEST, just opposite Main Entrance of the World's Fair, Sixty-second and Sixty-third Streets
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BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST
And Congress of Rough Riders of the World
Return to America fresh from foreign triumphs, enlarged and augmented, with added subjects of appropriate interest, which will be located between 62d and 63d streets, opposite the World's Fair main entrance, occupying fourteen acres. Arena, forest, camp, and covered grandstand seating 18,000 people. The central point on earth, regarding easy across from the Atlantic to the Pacific-North, South, East and West. For facilities to and from this most international celebration of the Columbian era, exhibiting as it does the native red man of America in action, his customs, traits, costumes, mode of life, etc., as Columbus discovered him, really forming a key to the past for the proper appreciation of the grand memorial Fair- in fact, a tonic to the great feast offered in the advance of the Industries, arts, sciences and civilization of the present, "holding, as 'twere, the mirror up to Nature."
Indorsed by all nations, annex feature of American exhibition Queen's Inhibition, London; Paris Universal Exposition, Richmond Exhibition, Pope Leo XIII's Jubliee, Rome; North German Exposition, Bremeu Industrial Fair, Barcelona and Verona- Venice Fetes, plaudits won from Presidents,
(DRAWING)
Emperors, Kings, Queens, Shah, Pope, and peoples- a record that stands alone since the creation of the universe.
The biggest outdoor animated amusement exhibit extant or known, either ancient or modern. Life, action, skill, daring danger defied; one thousand animated pictures in two hours given by flesh and blood; creation's greatest handiwork, nature's noblest mechanism, too natural and colossal for canvas; or building. The grassy award our carpet, heaven's blue canopy our covering. In addition to the famed Wild West will be held the first congress of the primitive horsemen of the world, and all in the saddle- four hundred and fifty men of all nationalities and races in pages of passing history, genuine participants, forming an ethnological study, an equestrian revelation. The Biblical Oriental, famed in song and story; the Cossack, Tartar, Arab, the European, from the Magyar of Hungary to the Nomad of Russia's steppes, including selected cavalry; representatives of the grand armies of England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the United States, armed, mounted, and equipped.
The South American Gaucho, Mexican Ruralie, the Caballero of the Rio Grande, the red Indian Centaur of the American plains, the Sioux, Comanche, Pawnee, Blackfeet, Frontier Girls and Squaws, and the excelsior combination of the perfect equation, the Rough Rider of the Prairie, the now world-renowned American Cowboy, all in friendly Concours of methods and skill, forming an eclipse of equestrian exhibitions, a veritable school, the first time since Adam of the primitive styles and general equipment.
All in conjunction with the usual vivid scenes, battle tableaux, marksmanship and thrilling episodes in the Indian and pioneer history of the settlement and civilization of the American continent since the advent of Christopher Columbus. An affair of magnitude second to none in novel enjoyment, instruction, interest and educative merit. Note the location. Distribute the news to all.
The whole under the supervision of Col. W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill").
NATE SALSBURY, Director.
N. B. Bureau of general information on the grounds. All modern languages spoken
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Replete with Everything Wonderful!
The Most Daring Acts of Man and Beast!
A Representative Congress of the Whole World!
Making a convenience of every Rideable ANimal in the universe. The Greatest Riders, the Greatest Shots more Ladies, Gentlemen and Beasts ever seen in one exhibition. A truly American enterprise to be witnessed by the world. Railroads Motors, Elevated Road, Steamboats and street Cars to any part of the city. ENTRANCE TO WILD WEST, just opposite Main Entrance of the World's Fair, Sixty-second and Sixty-third Streets