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talented husband and which he so richly deserves is remarked by all.
Colonel Jadson's first acquaintance with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack and his subsequent successful effort to bring them before the public are best described in his own words "In my travels in the West I have met with every description of scouts including Kit Carson, Major Bridger, and hundreds of others noted in the annal of military life on the plains.
With these men, I have been on terms of the most intimate friendship but never met a live scout until chance Ted to the acquaintance of Buffalo Bill. The meeting took place several years ago, and we have been firm friends and boon companions ever since, having camped together, hunted together, and, when occasion required, fought together.
"During this time I studied the character of my friend thoroughly and searchingly, and fAnding that he was all that my fancy desired, I determined to bring him before the American people as a real specimen of the nobles of the frontier; as one of the daring scouts who, day and night, from one year's end to another, have periled their lives in protecting settlers from the lurking savages, whose gleaming knives bad drunk the blood, not only of their enemies, but of weak women and helpless children; whose tomahawks have brained the noblest and purest in the land; and whoso black hearts lave thirsted and hungered with an insatiate appetite for the lives of Irish victims to be added to the long list of those who have suffered martyrdom at the stake, and whose reeking scalps adorn the lodge-poles for the chiefs and 'braves' of the children of the forest and plain. Having found and thoroughly studied my hero, I wrote the romance of two others, detailing the adventures of the same heroic character. I met in his wanderings, was found another Western hero, and having introduced them to the American public with my pen, I determined to bring the brave scouts before the people, that they might be seen as they are, men of honor, truth, and sobriety, and who have all the nobler attributes that a generous nature some times, but not very often, bestows upon her children. It was with considerable difficulty that I could secure their consent to appear in so public a manner, but finally prevailed upon them, and on the 16th of last December they made their debut in Chicago, before an audience of twenty-five hundred people, completely filling the house, and the thermometer twenty- three degrees below zero."
They have since played in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities, with unparalleled success.
The plece they appeared in at Chicago was the one they have rendavad during their tour. It was written in four and had only five rehearsals before being put on the stage.

talented husband and which he so richly deserves is remarked by all.
Colonel Jadson's first acquaintance with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack and his subsequent successful effort to bring them before the public are best described in his own words "In my travels in the West I have met with every description of scouts including Kit Carson, Major Bridger, and hundreds of others noted in the annal of military life on the plains.
With these men, I have been on terms of the most intimate friendship but never met a live scout until chance Ted to the acquaintance of Buffalo Bill. The meeting took place several years ago, and we have been firm friends and boon companions ever since, having camped together, hunted together, and, when occasion required, fought together.
"During this time I studied the character of my friend thoroughly and searchingly, and fAnding that he was all that my fancy desired, I determined to bring him before the American people as a real specimen of the nobles of the frontier; as one of the daring scouts who, day and night, from one year's end to another, have periled their lives in protecting settlers from the lurking savages, whose gleaming knives bad drunk the blood, not only of their enemies, but of weak women and helpless children; whose tomahawks have brained the noblest and purest in the land; and whoso black hearts lave thirsted and hungered with an insatiate appetite for the lives of Irish victims to be added to the long list of those who have suffered martyrdom at the stake, and whose reeking scalps adorn the lodge-poles for the chiefs and 'braves' of the children of the forest and plain. Having found and thoroughly studied my hero, I wrote the romance of two others, detailing the adventures of the same heroic character. I met in his wanderings, was found another Western hero, and having introduced them to the American public with my pen, I determined to bring the brave scouts before the people, that they might be seen as they are, men of honor, truth, and sobriety, and who have all the nobler attributes that a generous nature some times, but not very often, bestows upon her children. It was with considerable difficulty that I could secure their consent to appear in so public a manner, but finally prevailed upon them, and on the 16th of last December they made their debut in Chicago, before an audience of twenty-five hundred people, completely filling the house, and the thermometer twenty- three degrees below zero."
They have since played in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities, with unparalleled success.
The plece they appeared in at Chicago was the one they have rendavad during their tour. It was written in four and had only five rehearsals before being put on the stage.