| 5549
BUFFALO BILL'S COW-BOY BAND
"A MERITORIOUS MUSICAL FEATURE"-- London Times.
Not the least interesting and popular adjunct of the Wild West entertainment is the
music furnished by the famous Cow-boy 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 as
of whom would be considered a soloist on his own instrument, and when combined and
playing together under the capable direction of Mr. William Sweeney, their leader, they make
music that compels the admiration of the masses. They give a concery before each perform-
ance, and incidental music that is a source of pleasure to all who hear it, and are daily greeted
with rounds of applause. This band 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 the 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
Cow-boy 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 assem-
ble together at the
World's Fair a congress
of the representative
horsemen of the world.
MESSRS. CODY and SALS-
BURY have had their
agents in all parts of the
earth looking for rough
riders who could com-
pete 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 Cos-
sacks, 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 Crimsa, then Turkish territory, to avoid the venegeance 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 | 5549
BUFFALO BILL'S COW-BOY BAND
"A MERITORIOUS MUSICAL FEATURE"-- London Times.
Not the least interesting and popular adjunct of the Wild West entertainment is the
music furnished by the famous Cow-boy 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 as
of whom would be considered a soloist on his own instrument, and when combined and
playing together under the capable direction of Mr. William Sweeney, their leader, they make
music that compels the admiration of the masses. They give a concery before each perform-
ance, and incidental music that is a source of pleasure to all who hear it, and are daily greeted
with rounds of applause. This band 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 the 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
Cow-boy 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 assem-
ble together at the
World's Fair a congress
of the representative
horsemen of the world.
MESSRS. CODY and SALS-
BURY have had their
agents in all parts of the
earth looking for rough
riders who could com-
pete 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 Cos-
sacks, 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 Crimsa, then Turkish territory, to avoid the venegeance 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 |
