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BUFFALO BILL'S COW-BOY BAND.

"A MERITOLOUS MUSICAL FEATURE" -London Times.

Not the least interesting and popular adjunct of the Wild West entertainment is the music furnished by the famous Cowboy Band. This band has always taken a prominent place with the organization and has received the highest praise from educated musicians as well as the public in all parts of the world. It consists of thirty-six cow-boy musicians, each of whom would be considered a soloist on his own instrument, and when combined ad playing together under the capable direction of Mr. Wm. Sweeney, their leader, they make music that compels the admiration of the masses. They give a concert before each performance, and incidental music that is a source of pleasure to all who bear it, and are daily greeted with rounds of applause. This brand has been the recipient of commendations from nearly all the musical connoisseurs and leaders and members of the finest bands in Europe, Lieut, Dan Godfrey, the leader of the famous Grenadier Guards Band, having presented Mr. Sweeney, after a six months engagement in te gardens connected with the Wild West in London, with a solid gold cornet, at the same time saying that the thirty-six members of the Cowboy Band would produce more good music than any band he had ever heard with even double the number of musicians. For thirty minutes prior to the entertainment this band, will give selections of both classical and popular music.

COSSACKS WITH THE WILD WEST.

In pursuance of their intention to assemble together at the World's Fair a congress of the representative horsemen of the world, MESSRS CODY, and SALSBURY have had their agents in all parts of the earth looking for rough riders who could compete with or excel the original riders of the Wild West, the native product of America, In the Russian Cossack they found a horseman whose style was new, novel and striking and one who could compete with the finest in the world. These Cossacks, in the picturesque garb of the Caucasus, form the latest acquisition of the Wild West. They are a troop of "Cossacks of the Caucasian Line," under the command of Prince Soucca.

The Prince and his comrades, it is interesting to the public to know, belong to the same branch of the great Cossack family, the Zaporogians, immortalized by Byron's "Mazeppa." Mazeppa was the chief of the Zaporogian community of the Cossacks of the Ukraine.

When Byron's famous hero came to grief at the battle of Poltava, the Cossacks fled to the Crimea, then Turkish territory, to avoid the vengeance of Peter the Great. Subsequently they were deported to the Kuban, and settled along the river as military colonists to defend the Russian frontier against the marauding tribes of the Caucasus.

On this dangerous frontier the qualities of horsemanship that made the name of Mazeppa and his warlike followers household words throughout the whole of Europe, became still further developed in the following generations, so that the Kuban Cossacks quickly became, in many respects, the most remarkable riders in the world.

On their lithe steppe horses, as fierce and active as themselves, they proved themselves more than worthy of their sires. During the heroic struggle of the Circassian mountaineers to maintain their independence against Russia, the sons of Mazeppa's Zaporogians were

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BUFFALO BILL'S COW-BOY BAND.
"A MERITOloUs MUSICAL TEACHER -London Times.
Not the least interesting and popular adjunct of the Wild West entertainment is the music furnished by the famous Cowboy Band. This band has always taken a prominent place with the organization and has received the highest praise from educated musicians as well as the public in all parts of the world. It consists of thirty-six cow-boy musicians, each of whom would be considered a soloist on his own instrument, and when combined ad playing together under the capable direction of Mr. Wm. Sweeney, their leader, they make music that compels the admiration of the masses. They give a concert before each performance, and incidental music that is a source of pleasure to all who bear it, and are daily greeted with rounds of applause. This brand has been the recipient of commendations from nearly all the musical connoisseurs and leaders and members of the finest bands in Europe, Lieut, Dan Godfrey, the leader of the famous Grenadier Guards Band, having presented Mr. Sweeney, after a six months engagement in te gardens connected with the Wild West in London, with a solid gold cornet, at the same time saying that the thirty-six members of the Cowboy Band would produce more good music than any band he had ever heard with even double the number of musicians. For thirty minutes prior to the entertainment this band, will give selections of both classical and popular music.

COSSACKS WITH THE WILD WEST.
In pursuance of their intention to assemble together at the World's Fair a congress of the representative horsemen of the world, MESSRS CODY, and SALSBURY have had their agents in all parts of the earth looking for rough riders who could compete with or excel the original riders of the Wild West, the native product of America, In the Russian Cossack they found a horseman whose style was new, novel and striking and one who could compete with the finest in the world. These Cossacks, in the picturesque garb of the Caucasus, form the latest acquisition of the Wild West. They are a troop of "Cossacks of the Caucasian Line," under the command of Prince Soucca.

The Prince and his comrades, it is interesting to the public to know, belong to the same branch of the great Cossack family, the Zaporogians, immortalized by Byron's "Mazeppa." Mazeppa was the chief of the Zaporogian community of the Cossacks of the Ukraine.
When Byron's famous hero came to grief at the battle of Poltava, the Cossacks fled to the Crimea, then Turkish territory, to avoid the vengeance of Peter the Great. Subsequently they were deported to the Kuban, and settled along the river as military colonists to defend the Russian frontier against the marauding tribes of the Caucasus.
On this dangerous frontier the qualities of horsemanship that made the name of Mazeppa and his warlike followers household words throughout the whole of Europe, became still further developed in the following generations, so that the Kuban Cossacks quickly became, in many respects, the most remarkable riders in the world.
On their lithe steppe horses, as fierce and active as themselves, they proved themselves more than worthy of their sires. During the heroic struggle of the Circassian mountaineers to maintain their independence against Russia, the sons of Mazeppa's Zaporogians were