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Record Aug 26

LOOKED AT REAL INDIANS.

West Point Cadets, Army Officers and Cavalrymen Visit Buffalo Bill.

THE CHICAGO RECORD WORLD'S FAIR BUREAU.

West Point boys took their first look at real live Indians yesterday afternoon. The cadets cheered the Indians and the Indians grinned responsively at the rows of gray cadets. It was army day at the Wild West Show.

The cadets were there. Men of the 7th cavalry were in the amphitheater--fifty of them, helping the cadets to make a noise. Gen. Miles and other Indian fighters sat in the boxes and smiled at the demonstrations of the future Indian fighters. Some of the army officers present had seen service both in 1876 and 1891. Scout Allison, who brought Sitting Bull from Canada, sat in the grand stand. It was a congress of Indians, cowboys, scouts and soldiers of the past, present and future. The performance was wildly applauded, and the cadets turned loose their yell, "Rah, rah, ree! Rah, rah, ree. West Point! West Point! Rah, rah, ree!"

Among the fifty or more officers present were Gen. Miles, Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. Stanley, Col. Heyl, Gen. Bingham, Gen. Gillman and Maj. Baird. Four cadets rode in the Deadwood coach when it was attacked by Indians, but Buffalo Bill came out from behind a painted mountain and rescued them.

is the hero of a famous ride of sixteen mile from the camp to Pine Ridge, along the line of which road were 7,000 hostile Indians eager for his death.

Mr. Allison, a famous scout, who brought Sitting Bull from Canada, was also a guest of the Wild West and a witness of the performance from the grand stand.

In Col Cody the cadets saw the last living scout of the old regime, when scouts were of more consequence than they are in the present day. Many graduates of West Point who are now prominent in the army acknowledge their indebtedness to Col Cody for their first lessons in practical warfare and knowledge of the country west of the Missouri.

Army Officers Present.

Among the prominent personages present in the grand stand were:

Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. Stanley, Capt. Eli L Huggins, Capt. Francis Michler, Capt. Marion P. Maus, Brevet Brigadier General Chauncer McKeever, Col. Edward M. Heyl, Maj. Stephen W. Groesbeck, Brevet Brigadier General Judson D. Bingham, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah H. Gillman, Col. Bernard J. D. Irwin, Lieut Col. George W. Candee, First Lieutenant Cassius E Gillette, First Lieutenant John L Chamberlin, Capt. James Allen, Brevet Colonel Edward B. Williston, Capt. Frank D. Baldwin. Capt. Jesse M. Lee, Capt. Daniel D. Wheeler, Capt. Daniel M. Appel, Maj. George W. Baird, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Edmond Rice, Chaplain Alen Allensworth, Capt. Walter S. Schuyler, Capt. Edward J. McClernand, Capt. Frederick A. Smith, Capt. William Baird, Capt. John Pitcher, Capt. William A. Shunk, First Lieutenant Mitchell F. Jamar, First Lieutenant James L. Wilson, First Lieutenant Thomas J. Clay, First Lieutenant Curtis B. Hoppin, First Lieutenant William C. Brown, First Lieutenant Edgar W. Howe, First Lieutenant Lewis H. Sother, First Lieutenant Robert F. Ames, First Lieutenant Robert J. C. Irvine, First Lieutenant Abner Pickering, First Lieutenant Stephen M. Foote, First Lieutenant James O'Green, First Lieutenant Walter L Gordon, Second Lieutenant Edmund Witlenmeyer, Second Lieutenant Guy H. Preston, Second Lieutenant Eli A. Helmick, Naj. Clifton Comly, Capt. John F. Rodgers, Capt Abram A. Harbach, Capt. John G. Burke, Capt. Louis A. LaGarde, Capt. Andrew H. Russel, Cat. Richard E. Thompson, Capt. Frank A. Edwards, Capt. Charles H. Heyl, Maj. George M. Randall, Capt. Fayette W. Roe, Col. Thomas C. Sullivan, Capt. Francis B. Jones, Capt. William L. Marshall, Russell Harrison, Gen Hazen, Capt. How Lieut. Brewer, Lieut. Flemming, Capt. Capon, Lieut. Stevens, Lieut. Smith, and 136 men from Fort Sheridan. Capt. How

Inter Ocean Aug 31

Will See The Show.

The inhabitants of the Javanese village, on Midway plaisance, will attend Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in a body this afternoon.

[Word?] Aug 2

The last week has been a truly gala one at the famous Wild West. Not only have the audiences been invariably large, and of course enthusiastic, but each night has in point of receipts been larger than the one before, and the new and splendid addition to the program in the reproduction of "Custer's Large Charge" has proven of absorbing interest. As an evidence of its faithfulness to facts it may be noted that the representations have been witnessed by a very large number of United States army officers stationed in and about Chicago, who have testified to the correctness. This can be more thoroughly understood when it is remembered that the terrible scene is re-enacted by many who were active and prominent participants in the tragic drama. They are, of course, to be found among the red men, for none of the brave band who followed Custer's lead lived to tell the sad story. The "battle of the Little Big Horn," like the Alamo, had no messenger of defeat.

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.