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After returing from the "Bad Lands" and joining Colonel Cody---who, upon comin
from London, had gone direct to his home in North Platte----in company with Major Mildmay and Colonel McGibbon, of her Majesty's Grenadier Guard, a hasty trip was made to the Grand Cafion of the Colorado through upper Arizona and Utah. It was pleasant to return to the rugged camp life, and it gave rest as it gave refershmen to mind and body, as this was a last taste of Nature from the actual Wild West was greatly appreciated, not only by the visit-ors, but by the American Scout himself, and his mind brought back memories when his childhood home was on the banks of the Missouri River, and there existed a vacuum as regard its civilization from there to the apex of the Rocky Mountains.
Finishing this slight recreation after a six years' trip in Europe and a campaign with General Miles in the West, attention was turned to a reorganization eclipsing past efforts for an ethnological, military, racial combination of horsemen from all quarters of the globe---to be in conjunction with the " Wild West" features--and now known as the " Congress of Rough Riders of the World. " for presentation at the World's Fair, Chicago. Mr. Nate Salsbury, the bale and energetic manager and partner of Colonel Cody, with that forethought and judgment that has characterized his career, has succeeded in securing (at an anormous rental)