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that one sees the perfection of that skill in marksmanship that has become the wonder of those who are not accustomed to the daily use of weapons. Yet if it were not possessed- if there were not the quick eye, the sure aim, coolness in the moment of extreme danger, whether threatened by man or beast- life in that section would be of little value, and a man's home anything but a safe abiding place.

There are exceptional cases of men like Buffalo Bill, Major North, and others, whose names are more or less familiar among the mighty hunters of the West, who excel in the use of rifle and pistol, and to which, time and time again, they and those around them have owed their lives. And they are the worthy successors of a long line of marksmen whose names are also "familiar as household words". Who does not recall David Crockett and his death-dealing rifle in the Alamo? Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, and the heroic exploits that have been written concerning them in the early pages of our country's history?

It is to the end that the peole of the East, or rather those who are not acquaninted with the rough life of the border, and especially that portion of it in which the rifle plays so important a part, may personally, witness some of the feats of Western life "a series of shooting exhibitions. The manner in which buffalo are haunted, the exciting chase at a close quarters, the splendidly-trained horses who participate in the chase, the hunt for elk, the stealthy devices of Indians in capturing the fleet-footed animals-- all these will be illustrated in a manner that has never been witnessed East of the Mississippi River.

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THE BUFFALO
The buffalo is the true bison of the ancients. It is distinguished by an elevated stature, measuring six to seven feet at the shoulder, and ten to twelve feet from nose to tail. Many there are under the impression that the buffalo was never an inhabitant of any country save ours. Their bones have been discovered in the superficial strats of temperate Europe; they were common in Germany in the eighth century. Primitive man in America found this animal his principal means of substinence, while to pioneers, hunters, emirgants, settlers, and railroad builder this fast-disappearing monarch of the plains was invaluable. Messrs. Cody & Co. have a herd of healthy speciment of this hardy bovine in connection with their instructive exhibition, "The Wild West".

Cody's Famous Ride, 355 Miles in 58 Hours, through a Hostile Country.
In the spring of 1868, at the outbreak of the violent Indian war, General Sheridan, from his headquarters at Havs City, dispatched Cody as guide and scout to Captain Parket at Fort Larned. Several bands of Comanches and Kiowas were in the vicinity, and Buffalo Bill, after guiding General Hazen and an escort of twenty men to Fort Sarah, thirty miles distant, started to return to Larned alone. At Pawnee Rock about half way, he found himself suddenly surrounded by about forty warriors. By professionals of friendship and warm greeting of "How! how!" Bill saw he could alone depend on cunning and strategy to escape. Being taken before Santanta, whom Bill knew was expecting a short time before a large herd of cattle which had been promised by General Hazen, he boldly complained to the wily chief of his treatment, and informed him that he had been ordered to find him and deliver "a big heap lot who-haws". The cupidity of old Santana enabled Bill to regain his arms and made for the purpose. Although declining an escort, he was followed, much to his alarm, by a dozen well-mounted red-skins. Keeping up "a heap of thinking", Coy at last reached a depression that hid him from view, and succeeded, by putting the mule at his highest speed, in getting fully a mile in advance before

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that one sees the perfection of that skill in marksmanship that has become the wonder of those who are not accustomed to the daily use of weapons. Yet if it were not possessed- if there were not the quick eye, the sure aim, coolness in the moment of extreme danger, whether threatened by man or beast- life in that section would be of little value, and a man's home anything but a safe abiding place.

There are exceptional cases of men like Buffalo Bill, Major North, and others, whose names are more or less familiar among the mighty hunters of the West, who excel in the use of rifle and pistol, and to which, time and time again, they and those around them have owed their lives. And they are the worthy successors of a long line of marksmen whose names are also "familiar as household words". Who does not recall David Crockett and his death-dealing rifle in the Alamo? Daniel Boone, of Kentucky, and the heroic exploits that have been written concerning them in the early pages of our country's history?

It is to the end that the peole of the East, or rather those who are not acquaninted with the rough life of the border, and especially that portion of it in which the rifle plays so important a part, may personally, witness some of the feats of Western life "a series of shooting exhibitions. The manner in which buffalo are haunted, the exciting chase at a close quarters, the splendidly-trained horses who participate in the chase, the hunt for elk, the stealthy devices of Indians in capturing the fleet-footed animals-- all these will be illustrated in a manner that has never been witnessed East of the Mississippi River.

(IMAGE)

THE BUFFALO
The buffalo is the true bison of the ancients. It is distinguished by an elevated stature, measuring six to seven feet at the shoulder, and ten to twelve feet from nose to tail. Many there are under the impression that the buffalo was never an inhabitant of any country save ours. Their bones have been discovered in the superficial strats of temperate Europe; they were common in Germany in the eighth century. Primitive man in America found this animal his principal means of substinence, while to pioneers, hunters, emirgants, settlers, and railroad builder this fast-disappearing monarch of the plains was invaluable. Messrs. Cody & Co. have a herd of healthy speciment of this hardy bovine in connection with their instructive exhibition, "The Wild West".

Cody's Famous Ride, 355 Miles in 58 Hours, through a Hostile Country.
In the spring of 1868, at the outbreak of the violent Indian war, General Sheridan, from his headquarters at Havs City, dispatched Cody as guide and scout to Captain Parket at Fort Larned. Several bands of Comanches and Kiowas were in the vicinity, and Buffalo Bill, after guiding General Hazen and an escort of twenty men to Fort Sarah, thirty miles distant, started to return to Larned alone. At Pawnee Rock about half way, he found himself suddenly surrounded by about forty warriors. By professionals of friendship and warm greeting of "How! how!" Bill saw he could alone depend on cunning and strategy to escape. Being taken before Santanta, whom Bill knew was expecting a short time before a large herd of cattle which had been promised by General Hazen, he boldly complained to the wily chief of his treatment, and informed him that he had been ordered to find him and deliver "a big heap lot who-haws". The cupidity of old Santana enabled Bill to regain his arms and made for the purpose. Although declining an escort, he was followed, much to his alarm, by a dozen well-mounted red-skins. Keeping up "a heap of thinking", Coy at last reached a depression that hid him from view, and succeeded, by putting the mule at his highest speed, in getting fully a mile in advance before

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