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Chicago Dispatch 4/27

MOST THRILLING

Exciting Performance of the
Big Wild West Show.

Initial Exhibition Given Yesterday Afternoon
with Great Success--Strange Phases
of Savage Life Revealed by a Trip Through
the Cosmopolitan Congress of Little-Known
People--Mrs. John A. Logan Is Present.

As Mrs. John A. Logas was escorted
towards the gate after the performance she
said to Buffalo Bill: "Colonel, I have spent
the most exciting and interesting afternoon
that has fallen to my lot for years."

It was just after the successful initial performance
of Buffalo Bill's wild west show
and congress of cosmopolitan warriors given
in the spacious arena in the forestlike
grounds lying just east of the Illinois Central
tracks, between Sixty-second and Sixty-third
streets.

The performance is so delightfully savage
and intensely thrilling that cheers and
applause ring out continuously from the
picturesque start to the auspicious finish.
Nothing is wanting in the performance line to
excite the spectators to involuntary jumps
and starts of surprise. Wherever one goes
the savage, wild spirit of American plains,
of Mexican prairies, of Russian steppes, of
Arabian deserts, of military encampments, and
of mountain fastnesses courses through the
veins with such rapidity that one lives for a
brief period with the savages acting out
their lives before him. Mimic Indian
battles, bereft of stereotyped deeds, occur
so close that the spectator wants to join in
the terrible din. Cowboys sport, play and
work with a wild roughness that is startling.
Arabian bedouins sound their grim battle
song, cossack warriors seemingly jeopardize
their precious necks with feats of horsemanship,
cavalry troops of French, British, German
and United States armies perform their
brilliant evolutions with a strangely harmonious
beauty. But to describe Buffalo
Bill's wild west show one must needs lay
off a day to listen or read.

Such is a brief idea of the mighty show
Buffalo Bill is giving for the edification,
gratification, education, admiration and
countless other ations of the public.