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hunter: as a man of honor and of more than ordinary skill and courage; and as a great teacher of men, manners, and methods to the accomplishment of civilization, has never been excelled, if equaled, in this country.

We see a man whose iron will, whose sociability, whose sense of right, whose ability to plan, whose power to execute, whose kidness to all, whose wonderful vitality, whose great animal magnetism, whose ability to profit by experience, whose wonderful command of men, and whose ability to draw the love and admiration of men, women, and children, make him as marvelous as he is deserving as a citizen, and a great character in American history. A natural man of the highest order. - Editorial, New York, Democrat, June 5, 1886.

MR. NATE SALSBURY, DIRECTOR.

Born 1846, February 28th, in Freeport, Ill., the family being descendants of the early Vermont settlers, went out with the first Illinois troops; served through the entire Rebellion; was the youngest enlisted soldier in the Army of the Cumberland; wounded three times; is a member of Post 11, G. A. R. Department of Massachusetts; went on the stage in 1868; has acted before every English-speaking public in the world.

The Amusement Department will be under the personal supervision of this eminent acto, whose successful career is now a matter of American Stage History. Years of continued success as a caterer to the amusement loving public of this country, Australia, India, and Europe, both as actor and manager, is a guarentee that the "Wild West" will be presented in a manner and style commensurate with his well-known managerial ability and artistic judgement. Mr. Salsbury long ago invested heavily in the cattle business in Montana, and is now part owner of one of the largest and most valuable ranches in the Northwest. During his repeated visits to the same he became impressed with the scenes and episodes witnessed, and thought of the feasibility of presenting them as fas as practicable to the citizens of the East. An interchange of opinions with Mr. Cody disclosed a similar intention, so that to the fertile brains of Messrs. Cody and Salsbury we are indebted for the first conjuring up of this novel project. They spoke of it years ago, and Salsbury went to Europe to see if it would be advisable to take such a show on the continent. Meanwhile, with Mr. Salsbury's knowledge, "Buffalo Bill" started the enterprise to see if it could be made successful in this country. Last year's experiences were proof that it could, and now all hands will join in getting up a "Wild West" show that will be remarkable in all respects.

"THE COW-BOY KID." - THE BOY MARKSMAN.

Johnie Baker was born at O'Fallon's Bluffs, on the banks of the South Platte River, in Western Nebraska, in the year of 1870. His father is the well-known "Old Lew Backer the ranchman," and was the owener of Lew Baker's O'Fallon's Bluff Ranch, in its day an important landmark. This place was one of the most noted on the great overland trail - the scenes, incidents. Indian attacks, etc. beloging to exhaustive pages in the early hisotry of that, in old times, exposed and dangerous section. Here Johnnie's babyhood was passed in unconscious proximity to dangers, seldom courted by the most sturdy, and his first "bug-a-boo" was not of teh maternal imagining, but an existing fact, continually threatening in the shape of the heartless savage Sioux. Cradled amid such pioneer surroundings, and dandled on the knees of all the most celebrated frontiersman, the genuine old buckskin trappers - the first frontier invaders - his childhood witnessed the declining glories of the buffalo-hunters' paradise (it being the heart of their domain), and the advent of his superior, "the long horn of Texas," and his neccessary companion, "The Cow-boy."

The appearance of these brave, generous, free-hearted, self-sacrificing, rough riders of the plains, literally living in the saddle, enduring exposure, hunger, risk of health and life as a duty to the employer, gave him his first communion with society beyond the sod cabin threshold, and impressed his mind, as well as directed his aspirations, to an emulation of the manly qualities necessary to be ranked a true American Cow-boy.

When the Pony Express, the Stage Coach, and the wagon trains were supplanted by the steam-horse, Baker's station became useless, and "Old Lew" moved bag and baggage to North Platte, a little town of magical railroad growth. here he built a fine house, which became the headquarters of the "old timers," and many a tenderfoot can remember the thrilling incidents related of "life on the trail" - a life that now belongs alone to history and to ramance - while Old Lew dispensed hospitatlity like a price. But the ways of "city life," a too big heart of which the "shiftless, genial affinities" and rounders took due advantage, caused his former prosperity to be a remembrance only, and Johnie to work manfully for one of his age, to lend a helpting hand. Perfectly at home in the saddle, he was never tonent unless with some cow-boy outfit, or at Mr. Cody's (whose homestead, extensive horse and cattle ranches, are near), where his spirit found congenial associations, until he became recognized as "Buffalo Bill's boy." In the winter months he occasionally went ot school, and, ebing an apt scholar, has a fair educaiton. Mr. Cody, on organizing

hunter: as a man of honor and of more than ordinary skill and courage; and as a great teacher of men, manners, and methods to the accomplishment of civilization, has never been excelled, if equaled, in this country.

We see a man whose iron will, whose sociability, whose sense of right, whose ability to plan, whose power to execute, whose kidness to all, whose wonderful vitality, whose great animal magnetism, whose ability to profit by experience, whose wonderful command of men, and whose ability to draw the love and admiration of men, women, and children, make him as marvelous as he is deserving as a citizen, and a great character in American history. A natural man of the highest order. - Editorial, New York, Democrat, June 5, 1886.

MR. NATE SALSBURY, DIRECTOR.

Born 1846, February 28th, in Freeport, Ill., the family being descendants of the early Vermont settlers, went out with the first Illinois troops; served through the entire Rebellion; was the youngest enlisted soldier in the Army of the Cumberland; wounded three times; is a member of Post 11, G. A. R. Department of Massachusetts; went on the stage in 1868; has acted before every English-speaking public in the world.

The Amusement Department will be under the personal supervision of this eminent acto, whose successful career is now a matter of American Stage History. Years of continued success as a caterer to the amusement loving public of this country, Australia, India, and Europe, both as actor and manager, is a guarentee that the "Wild West" will be presented in a manner and style commensurate with his well-known managerial ability and artistic judgement. Mr. Salsbury long ago invested heavily in the cattle business in Montana, and is now part owner of one of the largest and most valuable ranches in the Northwest. During his repeated visits to the same he became impressed with the scenes and episodes witnessed, and thought of the feasibility of presenting them as fas as practicable to the citizens of the East. An interchange of opinions with Mr. Cody disclosed a similar intention, so that to the fertile brains of Messrs. Cody and Salsbury we are indebted for the first conjuring up of this novel project. They spoke of it years ago, and Salsbury went to Europe to see if it would be advisable to take such a show on the continent. Meanwhile, with Mr. Salsbury's knowledge, "Buffalo Bill" started the enterprise to see if it could be made successful in this country. Last year's experiences were proof that it could, and now all hands will join in getting up a "Wild West" show that will be remarkable in all respects.

"THE COW-BOY KID." - THE BOY MARKSMAN.

Johnie Baker was born at O'Fallon's Bluffs, on the banks of the South Platte River, in Western Nebraska, in the year of 1870. His father is the well-known "Old Lew Backer the ranchman," and was the owener of Lew Baker's O'Fallon's Bluff Ranch, in its day an important landmark. This place was one of the most noted on the great overland trail - the scenes, incidents. Indian attacks, etc. beloging to exhaustive pages in the early hisotry of that, in old times, exposed and dangerous section. Here Johnnie's babyhood was passed in unconscious proximity to dangers, seldom courted by the most sturdy, and his first "bug-a-boo" was not of teh maternal imagining, but an existing fact, continually threatening in the shape of the heartless savage Sioux. Cradled amid such pioneer surroundings, and dandled on the knees of all the most celebrated frontiersman, the genuine old buckskin trappers - the first frontier invaders - his childhood witnessed the declining glories of the buffalo-hunters' paradise (it being the heart of their domain), and the advent of his superior, "the long horn of Texas," and his neccessary companion, "The Cow-boy."

The appearance of these brave, generous, free-hearted, self-sacrificing, rough riders of the plains, literally living in the saddle, enduring exposure, hunger, risk of health and life as a duty to the employer, gave him his first communion with society beyond the sod cabin threshold, and impressed his mind, as well as directed his aspirations, to an emulation of the manly qualities necessary to be ranked a true American Cow-boy.

When the Pony Express, the Stage Coach, and the wagon trains were supplanted by the steam-horse, Baker's station became useless, and "Old Lew" moved bag and baggage to North Platte, a little town of magical railroad growth. here he built a fine house, which became the headquarters of the "old timers," and many a tenderfoot can remember the thrilling incidents related of "life on the trail" - a life that now belongs alone to history and to ramance - while Old Lew dispensed hospitatlity like a price. But the ways of "city life," a too big heart of which the "shiftless, genial affinities" and rounders took due advantage, caused his former prosperity to be a remembrance only, and Johnie