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[IMAGE] COL. W. F. CODY, President.

COL. CODY'S ONLY CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
Once for all, and all rumors and reports to the contrary notwithstanding, I beg to most positively assure my comrades, friends, patrons and the press, that whenever my "Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" is billed to appear, there will I be with it also. That I only always personally direct it as a whole and every production connected therewith, but invariably appear at each and every afternoon and evening performance, conscientiously fulfilling every advertised promise made in my name. My place has always been at the front. I have not been accustomed to loiter at the rear.
Yours very truly,
W. F. CODY,
"BUFFALO BILL"

An Absolutely Orginal and Heroic Enterprise of Inimitable Lustre.

The Only One which Kings, Chief Rulers, Famous Generals, Nobles and the Most Illustrious and Enlightened Men of Every Land Delight to Honor. The Only One which has its Country's Army as its Sponsor. The Only One which is the Splendid Theme of Artistic, Poetic and Historic Inspiration. Which of All the Millions it has Entertained, Taught and Transported, has Never Deceived, Harmed, or Disappointed a Single One. The Like of Which You and Your Children Will Never Look Upon again.

[IMAGE] NATE SALSBURY, Vice-President.

To America and Americans
After months of industrious preparation, enormous outlay and most diligent and thorough research in presenting this greatly enlarged and perfected exhibition to the approval of my countrymen for the season of 1896, I beg to direct their special consideration to the fact:
That it is an absolutely original creation, without precedent, or parallel, and which can have no successor.
That it is just as genuine as original, in every presentation and as regards every participant.
That is Scouts, Pioneers, Indians and Plainsmen, were a part of the romantic history which it, and it alone, perpetuates, honors and exploits in living lessons of heroic power, scope and perfection.
That its representative and extraordinary riders, marksmen and others are of the nationalities stated and the distinction claimed.
That it will steadfastly continue to deserve the world-wide fame and recognition previously and gloriously won ever and forever, as far above deception as it is beyond rivalry or imitation.
Very respectfully,
NATE SALSBURY,
VICE-PRESIDENT AND MANAGER.

If Any Seek to Imitate It, They Defraud
If Any Claim to Rival It, They Falsify
If Any Copy Its Announcements, It Is Forgery

It Controls All the Genuine Material of Its Kind
It Alone Commands the Confidence of Potentates and Powers
It Is the Only Exhibition With Which Governments Co-operate

More Than Historic; It Is History Itself in Living Lessons
Not the Imitations of Fancy, but the Stupendous Realism of Facts
Not a Speculation of Apes, but an Institution of Heroes

NOT AN EMPTY CHEATING ECHO BUT DARING DEEDS INCARNATE
TELLING ITS THRILLING TALES WITH RIFLE, SWORD and SPEAR
USING IN PLACE OF HALTING WORDS INSPIRING, SPLENDID, ACTION

THE ONLY EXHIBITION IN ALL THE WORLD THAT HAS NO COUNTERPART. EXCLUSIVELY ITS OWN CREATION.

READ THESE MEMORABLE WORDS OF GENERAL SHERMAN TO COL. CODY:
"BILLY; FOR MY CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, WHO CAN NEVER SEE THESE THINGS AS WE SAW THEM, I THANK YOU."

BUFFALO WILD

CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD.

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: PERMIT ME TO INTRODUCE TO YOU A CONGRESS OF ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD."

BILL'S WEST

ITS GREAT ORIGINATOR NOW RIDES ALONE UPON FAME'S WARPATH
THE LAST IN SERVICE OF THE GREATER SCOUTS TO WHOM OUR ARMY'S SAFETY WAS ENTRUSTED.

The Master Horsemen, More Picturesque, and Perfect than Alexander on Bucephalus. Commanding the Grand Host of All the World's Most Noted Riders. No Toppling Tents Could Cover Such An Equestrian Gathering of Nations.

No Hundred Theatres Combined Inclose its Proud Reviews and Battle Spectacles. The Plains, the Steppes, the Pampas, Are its Platform. The Free Range of the Open Air, the Coliseum Nature Builds for it.

Among Its Features, Martial Pageants, Dazzling Reviews, Savage Displays of Fearful War and Foray.

Wild and Most Wondrous Riders on Naked Steeds.

STRANGE AND EXCITING NOMADIC RACES.

THE REGULAR CAVALRY OF MANY FLAGS. DESERT-BORN BEDOUINS IN AMAZING FEATS

THE THRILLING EPISODES, STRUGGLES, ESCAPES, ADVENTURES, MARKSMANSHIP AND UNIQUE PASTIMES OF BORDER LIFE.

REGULAR ARTILLERY JUST AS IN ACTION

THE WARLIKE ACTS AND ARMS OF MANY LANDS.

NOT ONE OF WHICH CAN EVER ELSEWHERE BE PRODUCED OR DUPLICATED

OF ITS KIND THE FIRST, THE ONLY, AND THE LAST, IT IS A REVELATION

THE MOST COLOSSAL AND THE STRANGEST ENTERTAINMENT EVER ORGANIZED OR DREAMED OF.

The Only Object Teacher History has Ever Had, or Recreation Furnished.
Whatever Others May Say or Claim, the Whole World Pronounces It Supremely and Originally Great.
The Mirror of American Manhood. The Camp of the Makers of a Nation's History.

Promoted by Kings, Honored by Nations. A Paragon at Home, a Triumph Abroad. Rough Riders Schooled to HArdship, and to Whom the Saddle is an Heirloom. As Equine and Equestrian Study, with Horse and Man a Sculptor's Beau Ideal.

Hazardous Pastimes of which the Great Plains and Deserts are the Natural Playground.

A HOLIDAY REFLECTING YEARS OF ROMANCE.

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