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DELIGHTED WITH THE ROUGH RIDING.

Many Distinguished Persons Visited the
Wild West Show Last Week.

Among the distinguished visitors at Buffalo
Bill's Wild West last week were Gen. John
M. Schofield, his staff, and their wives; Miss
Susan B. Anthony and party; Miss Kate
Field and party; Mrs. Mary H. Krout, president
of the Woman's National Press league,
and a party; Col. John T. Dickinson, secretary
world's fair national commission, and a
party of ladies, and Gen. Digby. Willoughby,
Col. Vibart and a party of English military
officers. A company of United States
Marines and soldiers from Fort Sheridan
also attended the exhibition. They all joined
in praise of the entertainment and in hearty
expressions of good will and warm friendship
for Col. Cody and his enterprise.

The kaleidoscopic changes of colors, of
races, of horses, of positions, and of scenes
impresses everybody who visits the Wild
West show. So rapid and constant are the
transformations made that the eye and the
brain are kept busy in seeing, in understanding,
and appreciating this brilliant
panorama.

Buffalo Bill and the guides, scouts, and
trappers with him now are the men who
made our trackless west a home for the overcrowded
countries of the world and made
possible rapid development of
the country. It was work of this kind
that drove the Indians further back as
the east became overcrowded and left a
peaceful country in which to build a Chicago,
a Kansas City, and a Denver. Now are
seen at the Wild West every day these men
living in amity and good fellowship
with their former foes, the red men.
Here too is the Russian Cossack from the
Caucasus, showing how he lives, rides,
fights, and builds for his race that highest of
all compliments in his native home, that he
is recognized as "the life of the czar."

The Arab of the desert, the vaquero of
Mexico, the cowboy of the western prairies,
the rough riders of all nations are seen,
joined in friendly rivalry. There, too,
are sons of hereditary foes, French
and German, English and American
cavalrymen, picked from the best regiments
of their respective countries, living in harmony
and friendship, breaking bread together
and smoking the pipe of peace daily, while
delighting thousands by their superb horsemanship
and generous rivalry in exhibiting
the skill and merits of their respective
armies.

Chicago Times June 4/93.