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[Chicago?] Record 6/6

Buffalo Bill's Wild West is still attracting vast crowds to his "twice daily, rain or shine" performances at 63d street and Stony Island avenue. Many distinguished visitors have lent their presence to the entertainment during the last week, among them being Gen. Schofield, staff and ladies, who expressed themselves as particularly pleased with the excellence and [trys?] merit without tinseled clap-traps of the exhibition. Last Tuesday the grand stand was packed to the roof with two crowds of tions who went into ecstasies over the various features of the programme, and especially over the cowboys and their buck-jumpers and the beautiful evolutions of the soldiers of the four great nations in their stirring international musical drill. Buffalo Bill is certainly displaying the finest lot of attractions he ever got together. His engagement of the representatives of the cavalry arms of the United States England, France and Germany was a happy idea, and they make a beautiful display. The Cossacks are marvelous horsemen, but do not outshow our own "knights of the rope," and the vaqueros from old Mexico. The Indians are the best lot Col. Cody ever brought east. In their barbaric splendor they form the most picturesque of all the groups. The Arabs are fine riders and as acrobats are wonderful. Miss Annie Oakley and Johnny Baker show their skill in marksmanship and do wonderful work with the rifle and pistol. The emigrant train, the Deadwood coach, the buffalo hunt and the attack on the settler's cabin are still absorbing features of the show. The grand review, when all hands are on the scene at once, is something not to be forgotton. The foremost figure of the aggregation is the friend and avenger of the lamented Custer. the hon. William F. Cody, whose hand has not lost its cunning in throwing the rope or handling a Winchester.

[Chicago?] Record 6/6

Buffalo Bill's Wild West is still attracting vast crowds to his "twice daily, rain or shine" performances at 63d street and Stony Island avenue. Many distinguished visitors have lent their presence to the entertainment during the last week, among them being Gen. Schofield, staff and ladies, who expressed themselves as particularly pleased with the excellence and [trys?] merit without tinseled clap-traps of the exhibition. Last Tuesday the grand stand was packed to the roof with two crowds of tions who went into ecstasies over the various features of the programme, and especially over the cowboys and their buck-jumpers and the beautiful evolutions of the soldiers of the four great nations in their stirring international musical drill. Buffalo Bill is certainly displaying the finest lot of attractions he ever got together. His engagement of the representatives of the cavalry arms of the United States England, France and Germany was a happy idea, and they make a beautiful display. The Cossacks are marvelous horsemen, but do not outshow our own "knights of the rope," and the vaqueros from old Mexico. The Indians are the best lot Col. Cody ever brought east. In their barbaric splendor they form the most picturesque of all the groups. The Arabs are fine riders and as acrobats are wonderful. Miss Annie Oakley and Johnny Baker show their skill in marksmanship and do wonderful work with the rifle and pistol. The emigrant train, the Deadwood coach, the buffalo hunt and the attack on the settler's cabin are still absorbing features of the show. The grand review, when all hands are on the scene at once, is something not to be forgotton. The foremost figure of the aggregation is the friend and avenger of the lamented Custer. the hon. William F. Cody, whose hand has not lost its cunning in throwing the rope or handling a Winchester.