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Herald Aug 21

BEST AND BIGGEST OUTDOOR SHOW.

Although the doors of Buffalo Bill's Wild
West have been thrown open to the public
twice every day, rain or shine, shower or
sunshine, since the 26th day of last April,
public interest has by no means abated. Not
only has it become well known to all world's
fair visitors that their trip to the great
Columbian Exposition is not at all completed
until they see the "Wild West," but
even residents of the city realize that it
takes many visits to the entertainment to
enable them to thoroughly appreciate all of
its many attractive features. The latest
addition to the programme has evoked the
greatest interest and won enthusiastic
commendation. There is no other organization
in the world that could so thoroughly
depict in in such perfect detail and with such
remarkable and realistic effect the varied
incidents of those desperate struggles in
the earlier days of the frontier west as can
Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and of all of those
incidents the memorable "Battle of the Little
Big Horn; or, Custer's Last Charge,"
would seem the most impossible of portrayal.
Among the members of the "Wild
West" are to be seen not only Buffalo
Bill (Colonel Cody), who was chief
of scouts of the army of the United
States during the campaign of 1876,
and also quite a number of Indians
who participated in the campaign, but
many of the most prominent of the Indian
chiefs against whom the gallant Custer
fought so desperately and so hopelessly.
All these join in making the scene a most
accurate representation of the most desperate
struggle of all the sanguinary fights
of those trying days.