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After returning from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody--who, upon coming
from London had gone direct to his home in North Platte--in company with Major Mildmay
and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado through upper Arizona and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the
rugged camp life, and it gave res as it gave refreshment to mind and body, as this was a
visit to one of the more interesting picturesque sections of God Almighty's eath. This
last tast of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visit-
ers, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his child-
hood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regards its
civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.
Finishing this slight recreation after a six year's trip in Europe and a campaign with
General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for
an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe--to
be in conjunction with the "Wild West" features--and now known as the "Congress of
Rough Riders of the World," for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Sals-
bury, the able and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought
and judgement that has characterized his career, had succeeded in securing (at an enormous
rental) one of the most valuable squares of ground in the immediate proximity to Jackson
Park, so accessible in location and so convenient to the marvelous Exhibition as to become
quickly indentified as an adjunct to the same. Animated interest was at once enlisted in sub-
jects neglected in the organization of that grandest of international expositions--the Ameri-
can Indian, and primitive and military horsemen; and so great was the instantaneous and
phenomenal success that the Wild West became publicly and semi-officially recognized as
"the World's Fair's most populat annex."
The two fitted each other from the fact that the stupendous collection of $300,000,000
worth of exhibits and architectural from-work, eclipsing in effect and artistic delicacy the
dream of the whildest enthusiast, combining, as it did, the constructive developments and
arsistic beauties of ages of edificial experiences and education--represented the development
of man's progressive possibilities in art, science and mechanism to such an exceeding degree
as to leave forever on the pages of civilization's grandest achievement the fame of the
"White City" of that West whose aboriginal owners and their primitive confreres-repre-
senting the nomadic past--were an educative, thoughtful sentimental and pathetic key to
the Golconda adjoining, as they in primitive garb impressed the multitudes with the starting
point of man by their lingering still on the scene of life to such an extent as to leave the
little less famous and always to be remembered annex, "Buffalo Bill's Tented City."
Encouraged by this success (notwithstanding the enormous investment necessary to its
proper placing), Messrs, Cody and Salsbury
determined to find a situation accessible and
convenient to the most favorably located of
cities, the cosmopolitan centre of the nine-
teenth century's progress and the no doubt
future Metropolis of the Globe,
"GREATER NEW YORK."
The point selected includes what is
now called Ambrose Park, adjoining 39th
Street Ferry, South Brooklyn, where the
present colossal improvements have been
erected on a spot of interest--in fact, his-
toric ground. On what is now 35th Street
and Third Avenue commenced the decisive
game of strategy between the Father of our
Country (German George Washington) and
the English general Lord Cornwallis, and
known in the annals of that heroic struggle
for liberty of the American people as the
"Battle of Long Island." The engagement
concluded, General Washington took advan-
tage of the recessibilty of this point to evade
the superior re-enforcements of the evening
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After returning from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody--who, upon coming
from London had gone direct to his home in North Platte--in company with Major Mildmay
and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado through upper Arizona and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the
rugged camp life, and it gave res as it gave refreshment to mind and body, as this was a
visit to one of the more interesting picturesque sections of God Almighty's eath. This
last tast of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visit-
ers, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his child-
hood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regards its
civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.
Finishing this slight recreation after a six year's trip in Europe and a campaign with
General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for
an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe--to
be in conjunction with the "Wild West" features--and now known as the "Congress of
Rough Riders of the World," for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Sals-
bury, the able and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought
and judgement that has characterized his career, had succeeded in securing (at an enormous
rental) one of the most valuable squares of ground in the immediate proximity to Jackson
Park, so accessible in location and so convenient to the marvelous Exhibition as to become
quickly indentified as an adjunct to the same. Animated interest was at once enlisted in sub-
jects neglected in the organization of that grandest of international expositions--the Ameri-
can Indian, and primitive and military horsemen; and so great was the instantaneous and
phenomenal success that the Wild West became publicly and semi-officially recognized as
"the World's Fair's most populat annex."
The two fitted each other from the fact that the stupendous collection of $300,000,000
worth of exhibits and architectural from-work, eclipsing in effect and artistic delicacy the
dream of the whildest enthusiast, combining, as it did, the constructive developments and
arsistic beauties of ages of edificial experiences and education--represented the development
of man's progressive possibilities in art, science and mechanism to such an exceeding degree
as to leave forever on the pages of civilization's grandest achievement the fame of the
"White City" of that West whose aboriginal owners and their primitive confreres-repre-
senting the nomadic past--were an educative, thoughtful sentimental and pathetic key to
the Golconda adjoining, as they in primitive garb impressed the multitudes with the starting
point of man by their lingering still on the scene of life to such an extent as to leave the
little less famous and always to be remembered annex, "Buffalo Bill's Tented City."
Encouraged by this success (notwithstanding the enormous investment necessary to its
proper placing), Messrs, Cody and Salsbury
determined to find a situation accessible and
convenient to the most favorably located of
cities, the cosmopolitan centre of the nine-
teenth century's progress and the no doubt
future Metropolis of the Globe,
"GREATER NEW YORK."
The point selected includes what is
now called Ambrose Park, adjoining 39th
Street Ferry, South Brooklyn, where the
present colossal improvements have been
erected on a spot of interest--in fact, his-
toric ground. On what is now 35th Street
and Third Avenue commenced the decisive
game of strategy between the Father of our
Country (German George Washington) and
the English general Lord Cornwallis, and
known in the annals of that heroic struggle
for liberty of the American people as the
"Battle of Long Island." The engagement
concluded, General Washington took advan-
tage of the recessibilty of this point to evade
the superior re-enforcements of the evening
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