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Mail Aug 26

Both from a financial and a popular point
of view the determination of Messrs. Cody
and Salsbury to add to the attractiveness of
the exhibitions given daily to Buffalo Bill's
Wild West has resulted in a most emphatic
success. For weeks the different types of
character illustrative of life on the plains--
in peace and war, in the home circle, on the
hunt, and in social enjoyment-- have been
shown most faithfully in the arena of the
"Wild West," and to further illustrate in a
forcibly realistic manner the struggle of the
earlier days in the frontier these energetic
managers have concluded to give an actual
scene from the great drama of the Custer
massacre, which occurred June 25, 1876. Col.
W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), as chief of scouts
of the United States army, was a conspicuous
figure in those days and times and under
the immediate command of Gen. Merritt was
in close proximity to the scene of the battle.
This great feature is simply an addition to
the program and in no wise curtails or detracts
from the general excellence or fullness
of the other features.