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Chicago Record 6/6

Buffalo Bill's Wild West is still attracting
vast crowds to his "twice daily, rain or shine"
performances at 63d street and Stony Island avenue.
Many distinguished visitors have lent
their presence to the entertainment during the
last week, among them being Gen. Schofield,
staff and ladies, who expressed themselves as
particularly pleased with the excellence and true
merit without tinseled clap-traps of the exhibition.
Last Tuesday the grand stand was packed
to the roof with two crowds of [illegible]
-tions who went into ecstasies over the various
features of the programme, and especially over
the cowboys and their buck-jumpers and the
beautiful evolutions of the soldiers of the four
great nations in their stirring international musical
drill. Buffalo Bill is certainly displaying
the finest lot of attractions he ever got
together. His engagement of the representatives
of the cavalry arms of the United States
England, France and Germany was a happy
idea, and they make a beautiful display. The
Cossacks are marvelous horsemen, but do not
outshow our own "knights of the rope," and the
vaqueros from old Mexico. The Indians are
the best lot Col. Cody ever brought east. In
their barbaric splendor they form the most
picturesque of all the groups. The Arabs are fine
riders and as acrobats are wonderful. Miss Annie
Oakley and Johnny Baker show their skill in
marksmanship and do wonderful work with the
rifle and pistol. The emigrant train, the Deadwood
coach, the buffalo hunt and the attack on
the settler's cabin are still absorbing features of
the show. The grand review, when all hands
are on the scene at once, is something not to be
forgotton. The foremost figure of the aggregation
is the friend and avenger of the lamented
Custer. the hon. William F. Cody, whose hand
has not lost its cunning in throwing the rope or
handling a Winchester.