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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 others 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.