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Journal Aug 12.

Custer's Last Charge to Be Depicted.

To every one who watched the brilliant
achievements of General Custer in the civil
war and, later on, the plains, the Battle of
"The Little Big Horn" will always be interesting.
Led into an untenable position
by the carelessness and incompetency of his
subordinates. Custer made a brave stand
for his life and the preservation of his command,
but numbers were against him and
he was overpowered.

Colonel Cody and Mr. Salsbury have decided
to make a representation of Custer's
last charge as part of the programme they
are offering to the public in their "Wild
West" exhibition. The programme as at
present arranged will be carried out every
day without fail, and the adding thereto of
the "Battle of the Little Big Horn" will
serve only to make the exhibition
more interesting, and the entertainment
more valuable and more educative. Among
the many noted persons taking part in the
representation who were engaged in the
campaign of 1876 through the valley of the
Big Horn at the time of the massacre of
Custer, and his forces will be Buffalo Bill
himself, who was then Chief of Scouts of
the United States army; Private Hackett,
who was with Colonel Reno in the first engagement
of that campaign, and Chiefs
Painted Horse, Little Wolf, Last Horse,
Black Bear, Red Elk and other who were
among the Indians opposed to Custer's
forces.

Extensive arrangements have been made
to perfect all the details and make them as
true to the original as possible. New and
correct scenery on an extensive scale made
from photographs and sketches, and duplicates
of the implements of civilized and
savage warfare used in that battle
have been procured for use
in the representation. These, with so many
of the original participants in the war, will
serve to make the reproduction of these
scenes by Messrs. Cody and Salsbury, not
only historically correct, but peculiarly
unique, in that it will be the first time in
the history of amusements that original
characters are seen in mimic
representation of historical events in which
they were chief actors. On Wednesday
when the first representation is made one
of the most distinguished audiences of military
and other notables ever gathered together
will be present.

Post
Aug 12.

Although the Wild West show continues
to enjoy a very large patronage at the arena,
corner of Stony Island avenue and Sixty-third
street, the management has decided to introduce
a novelty in the programme next Wednesday in
the form of an exact reproduction of Custer's
last fight, partcipated in by three chiefs who
were in the conflict. Meantime the regular entertainment
will be presented twice daily, "rain
or shine."

Times Aug 13"

The only novelty of any account in this
week's amusement bill will be found in Buffalo
Bill's Wild West. There, Wednesday
next, it is intended to add to the realistic exhibition
of frontier life a dramatic representation
of the tragic massacre of the Little
Big Horn, where the gallant Custer and
so many more brave American soldiers bit
the dust. Many of the Indians who took
part in that horrible affair will appear in the
mimic show. Every attention will be paid to
the details of the work, and as nearly a perfect
representation will be given as the prescribed
limits of the arena and the limited
number of people will allow, but it is safe to
say that all the salient features will be
brought out with a fidelity to history astonishing
to the spectator. New scenery on a
grand scale has been made from photographs
and sketches; all the necessary and correct
implements as properties have been secured,
and as many of the actors were actual participants
in the battle a thrilling representation
may be confidently anticipated by the
public. Col. Cody and Mr. Salsbury do not
do things by halves.

Herald Aug 13"

LITTLE BIG HORN MASSACRE.

The massacre of the Little Big Horn has
become a sadly memorable event in the history
of the Indian fronter. It was and will
be remembered when all other battles between
the United States army and the Indians
shall have been forgotten. It occupies
a page alone in the memoirs of Indian
warfare. To reproduce this scene, having
as actors many of those who actually participated
in the campaign and some
who were in the battle itself, is a wonderful
undertaking. Ye this is soon actually
to be done here in Chicago. Chiefs
Plenty Horses, Painted Horse and Rocky
Bear, who were in the fight, are now with
Cody and Salisbury in their great "Wild
West," and with them are many of the
Indians who formed the rank and file of the
Indian forces. Assisted by other Indian
members of the "Wild West" and joined by
members of the Seventh United States cavalry,
led by Colonel W. F. Cody himself,
these historic characters will in the Wild
West grounds on Wednesday, Aug. 16, give
a vivid and realistic picture of the great
battle, giving in detail every incident of
that terrible struggle. This great exhibition
will not only be of historical interest,
but will, it is promised, be a beautifully real
picture.

The addition of this feature will not cause
the omission from the programme of any
other of the interesting numbers which have
made the "Wild West" so popular, but is in
the nature of an extra attraction. At all
other performances prior to Wednesday
next the same attractive exhibition that has
already won such universal and unqualified
approval will be given each day.

New scenery has been prepared, and will
not only be on a scale of immensity never
before seen, but will be made with absolute
fidelity to the photographs and sketches
made on the ground. Over three hundred
people will be engaged, and no doubt the
entire representation will be faithful, thrilling
and interesting.

Sunday Globe
Aug 13"

PASSING OF CUSTER.

Battle of Little Big Horn to Be
Reproduced by Buffalo
Bill.

THRILLING WILD WEST SHOW.

The Most Famous Episode in the
History of Indian
Warfare.

(DRAWING)
A
THRILLING
event of the
rarest interest
in the history
of the west
will be added
to the many
mimic scenes
of the settlement
of that
country as given by Buffalo Bill at his
Wild West entertainment on Sixty-third
street next Wednesday afternoon
and each succeeding day until the close
of the season. All of the many interesting
features that have served to
make the Wild West the most popular
entertainment ever offered to our people
will be retained intact, and in order
to give renewed and added interest
thereto Col. Cody and Mr. Salsbury
have decided to reproduce the most
thrilling chapter in the history of
Indian warfare of the present century.

No more picturesque figure adorns
the pages of modern history than that
of the lamented Gen. Custer, and his
military career through the late war of
the rebellion and afterward as an Indian
fighter in the northwest is all
through entwined with laurels of an
imperishable species. No more intrepid
cavalrymen belonged to the union
forces, save the gallant Sheridan, and
both become famous, especially for
their daring charges and the almost invariably
successful results that followed
them. At the close of the civil war
Custer was sent to the frontier and
proved himself a wise and succesful
antagonist of the red man, until on
June 25, 1876, at the battle of the Little
Big Horn, with 245 men at his back he
made his last charge on a Sioux village
of over 3,000 well armed and equipped
Indians, with the result that this last
desperate but necessary sortie on his
part was the entire annihilation of himself
and his gallant men. No more
bloody page can be found in the history
of America than that descriptive of the
battle of the Little Big Horn. The
wily cunning and shrewdness of the
red man was practiced with the utmost
finesse by the thousands who were opposed
to the handful of supporters of
Custer, and it is no marvel that the
latter were so suddenly and completely
wiped out of existence.

Col. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was the chief
of scouts of the United States army
under command of Gen. Crook, and it is
this incident in history that he and Mr.
Salsbury have decided to add to their
programm and with the aid of the
famous Seventh cavalry, many of whom
were cut down like blades of grass in
that campaign, together with a number
of the chiefs and Sioux Indians engaged
in that war, some of whom were
directly opposed to Custer when he fell,
the thrilling representation of that day's
massacre will be given in the arena of
the Wild West.

New and correct scenery has been
painted. All of the properties and implements
necessary for correctness in
detail have been prepared and it is safe
to say thats with their reputation for
faithful presentationof all that they
advertise to do the production of the
battle of the "Little Big Horn, or
Custer's Last Charge" will be the most
thrilling, the most picturesque and the
most accurate representation of a historical
event that has ever taken place
in the history of amusements in
America.

Chiefs Rock Bear, Painted Horse,
Plenty Horses and other Sioux warriors
of the Ogalala band who were led
by the famous Big Road in the fight
with Custer, will take part in the
mimic scene as it is presented by Col.
Cody. These characters, with Col.
Cody himself and members of the Seventh
cavalry now with him, will serve
to add a realism to the picture presented
that never before has it been
possible to give any sort of entertainment.
Actual participants in one of
the bloodiest wars of the country seventeen
years afterward taking part in an
arenic representation of the same will
naturally excite an interest and lend a
value to the representation that could
not be had from the employment of ordinary
actors and imitation soldiers and
savages.

The addition of this scene to the other
features of the Wild West will
complete and round out a program the
equal of which has never been, and it
would be impossible to repeat anywhere.
Until the production of the
battle of the Little Big Horn on Wednesday
next the principal program will
not be changed, and the crowds that
are now attending each performance
will no doubt be largely augmented by
this addition.

Tribune Aug 13

Buffalo Bill's Wild West has a novelty for
its patrons in "The Battle of the Little Big
Horn; or, Custer's Last Charge," which will
be given Wednesday for the first time. The
participants will include many who were
actually in the battle and who took part in
the campaign. The Indian Chiefs Rocky Bear,
Painted Horse, and Plenty Horses led
their savages in the fight, and are now with
Buffalo Bill; and with them are many braves
who followed their leadership in that direful
conflict. Col. Cody was himself at that time
chief scout of that United States army, and
took a prominent part in the campaign.

Post Aug 13.

ARENA - WILD WEST.

The thousands of visitors who have attended
the remarkable exhibition given by
Cody and Salsbury's Wild West have been
impressed not only with the magnitude but
with the perfection of detail of the entertainment,
and it has not seemed possible
that anything more could be added to further
its attractiveness. Ever on the alert,
however, to provide their patrons with the
fullest measurement, the managers have
arranged for the presentation of one of the
most realistic and exciting arenic displays
ever offered to the public. Among the members
of the Wild West forces are the noted
Indian chiefs, Rocky-Bear, Painted-Horse
and Plenty-Horses, all of whom were active
participants in the scenes of the famous
Custer massacre, otherwise known as the
Battle of the Little Big Horn, and with
them are many braves who also took part in
that terrible conflict. These, together with
the detachment of the Seventh United
States Cavalry and other members of the
aggregation, will next Wednesday give an
exact reproduction of that sanguinary
conflict, for which new scenery has been
painted. Every movement of the troops
and of the Indians will be faithfully followed,
and every incident accurately reproduced.
The entire force of the wild
west and congress of rough riders of the
world will participate in the great production,
and Colonel Cody himself will be a
prominent figure. Until the exhibition on
next Wednesday the usual excellent programme
will be given as usual twice each
day, at 3 and 8:30 p. m., and the new
feature will be in the nature of an addition
and will in no manner curtail the regular
programme.

Sunday Democrat
Aug 13

COL. W. F. CODY.

Col. Cody, the soldier, scout, statesman
and traveler, known throughout
the whole world as "Buffalo Bill" is
without doubt one of the most remarkable
men of modern times. Few if any
with the disadvantages with which he
had to contend in his early years have
risen to the prominence and world-wide
celebrity of Col. Cody. Born and passing
his early childhood amid the stirring
scenes of the wild West, his character
partook somewhat of the nature of his
surroundings and we first hear of him,
a mere boy, taking his place among the
cowboys of the plains, with his pony
and lariat, filling a man's place and
sharing in the dangers of his comrades.
Before attaining the age of manhood he
had been wagonmaster and guide for
the big wagon trains that were then
the only means of transportation across
the plains. At the breaking out of the
civil war he became a soldier, but did
not gain very great distinction except
among the few commanding generals
that knew him, as his was the dangerous
work of carrying dispatches through
the enemy's country. After the war
he returned to the plains and became a
scout and guide for the U. S. Army and
was commissioned colonel and chief of
scouts. In every extended campaign
since the war Col. Cody has been a
prominent figure, both as guide and
scout, and as arbitrator and mediator.
He is the Indian's friend in peace and a
bitter foe in war; but whether friend or
foe he has the respect and confidence
of all the Indians in the West. Col.
Cody was elected to the state legislature
of Nebraska, but resigned after a
short time, as he could not bear the
frequent wrangles and discussions arising
in the house. He is at present adjutant
general of his state, and is the
choice of the people for the next governor,
THE SUNDAY DEMOCRAT being
the first paper to announce the fact.
He has for several years been traveling
with the Wild West show and has
illustrated wild western life in almost
every country on the face of the globe.
Associated with him in this enterprise
are Major John. M. Burke, (Arizona
John), and "Nate" Salsbury. As
manager of the enterprise no better
man can be found than general Major,
who is a good judge of human nature
and knows an Indian like a last year's
almanac. "Nate" Salisbury brings
his extensive experience in the show
business as managerof that part of the
business, and cannot be excelled as a
successful manager. Their mammoth
show is patronized by thousands of our
best citizens as well as all distinguished
foreigners from abroad. This show is
different from any other in existence
and cannot be duplicated by any other
men, as it requires great personal influence
to secure the wild talent.

Sunday Telegram
Aug 13

The daring riding of the cowboys,
the Indians, Cossacks and the Arabs
continues to attract great attention at
Buffalo Bill's wild west. Performances
are given each day, Sunday included,
at 3 and 8:30 p.m., rain or shine.
Visit the unique show to-day and you
will not regret it.

Christian Standard
Aug 5 -

Last Thursday was Waif's Day. Ten
thousand of Chicago's poor children, including
boot-blacks, newsboys, street
musicians, etc., were given a free ride on
the Illinois Central trains to the picnic
grounds near Jackson Park. Here they
spent several hours in sports, contests
for useful prizes, and in general relaxation,
after which they were given a free
dinner. Ten thousand boxes of food
which had been kindly donated by good
citizens were soon devoured by the hungry
little fellows, many of whom scarcely
know what a good meal is. The day
wound up with a visit to Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show, which pleased the urchins
beyond expression. Mrs. Potter
Palmer had generously offered her entire
salary as Lady's Manager, something
over $6,000, to assist in giving the waifs
the pleasure of a day at the World's
Fair, but the authorities did not take
kindly to the scheme. Pres. Higinbotham
is quoted as saying that he did
not care to throw the gates of the White
City open to such an undesirable class of
visitors. But Buffalo Bill - big, kindhearted
generous Buffalo Bill- came to
the rescue, and placed Chicago's coming
citizens under-lasting obligations to him
for a deed of love that may result in the
transformation of many lives into something
better and nobler. It is to be regretted,
however, that the flinty-hearted
officials of the Exposition could not be
moved upon to permit the children the
glorious privilege of a day at the Fair.
It would have lingered in their memories
as a sweet dream, and inspired them to
rise above their lowly plane.

Post Aug 13.

"The Life of Buffalo Bill, from Prairie to
Palace," is out and will be in the possession
of every tender youth thirsting for buffalo
hunts and gore- at a distance. Buffalo
Bill is the hero of the boy-- every kind of
boy, from seven to seventeen. And, fortunately,
his is the life to inspire and not to
excite vainly or unduly. Buffalo Bill is
unique, and sometimes one is led to think
he is the only typical American who has
ever won distinction abroad. He is, at any
rate one of the two or three who have attained
social eminence on account of his
Americanism. For, laugh at the term social
eminence as applied to a scout if you
please, and pooh-pooh the "distinction"
conferred upon a mere showman, it is nevertheless
the fact that Colonel Cody, or
General Cody, or whatever his title is - he
seems to have grown an honor or two in
the last few years- was received, entertained
and sought by persons of rank
and fashion in England, who saw in
him what they considered the true
American sportsman. And sport is the
fetich of all England, male and female.
Colonel Cody was an honored guest at small
and intimate parties, like dinners; he was
the friend of the Prince of Wales, not a
solicitor for his favor, as so many would-be
swells are; he was appreciated, feted and
courted. Then it began to be suspected in
America that there must be something in
him, and now he is a man of some social
distinction here. Oh, shame on our fierce
democracy!

As for the contents of the book, they are
no doubt extremely thrilling. The preface
and introduction are poetic to the verge of
sublimity, if not always technically pure.
To speak of the youths of the time of Fremont,
Carson and others as "relicts of the
perfected histroy they inaugurated" is to
confuse the ordinary English student, who
has supposed hitherto that only women --
and widows at that-- could br relicts.

But: "The romance, the fiction woven
around his (Buffalo Bill's) personality is
dispelled in the white light of stern and
veritable facts, just as the golden rays of
the morning sun drive the mist from the
mountain tops." The lover of metaphor
will suffer here, just as the philologist
agonized over the relicts of his dead hopes
(male) in the other sentence.

There are interesting stories of incidents
in the life of Colonel Cody, exciting escapes
and deeds of great valor. Many great
authorities have testified to the bravery of
Buffalo Bill, whose record has now and then
been questioned by the envious. There is
no doubt that he was a distinguished addition
and help to our officers in Indian
warfare.

The book is history, and the account of
the buffalo bunts are wildly exciting, all
the more so because of their authenticity.

However, a story need not be true to be
thrilling. One of the most blood-curling
hunting stories ever written is a quiet,
unsensationally told tale of a chase of the
"soko," an animal which probably never
has lived. It is Phil Robinson who tells it,
in his "Under the Sun"-- one of the most
amusing books ever written, by the
by. The soko is an ape so human
that it walks erect, leaning on a walking-stick
which it cuts for itself, tearing off a
strip of the bark just where the hand
comes. It was so human and so canny
that it walked with the hunting-party --
which was out after itself- in the dusk, and
nobody knew it until one of the party, left
behind, ran to catch up and found that they
had their full number, not counting him!
One will never forget the awful creepiness
of that moment to the reader. The soko
had attached himself to the camp and
awalked with it under cover of the darkness
until he came to a safe escape.

The hunt was long and dangerous, for the
creature had the brute strength and ferocity
of the wild beast combined with the intelligence
of man. At last he was trapped,
and dying he laid his head on the breast
of one of the men-- sapped of his strength
and harmless now-- and died, uttering the
word "Mamma," and giving his murderers
a last pathetic and reproachful glance. It
is a breathless tale, full of strength and
tremendous interest. And of course absolutely
impossible.

Record Aug 13.

The Gen. Custer demonstration will be added
to Buffalo Bill's Wild West programme tomorrow,
and promise to be an event in the
amusement world.