Mail Aug 19''
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To those who have before now witnessed
the remarkably attractive performance given
by Buffalo Bill's Wild West it would seem
that the limit of exciting variety had already
been surely reached. When public announcement
was made that a new historic feature
was to be added to the daily program by a
vivid and realistic reproduction of the famous
"Battle of the Little Big Horn,"
depicting the gallant Custer's last charge
the public was fairly startled. Interest
was aroused by the knowledge that
among the actors engaged in the
representation where many who
were not only active participants
in that great campaign, but who actually
took part in the identical battle then being
shown them. Half a dozen or more of the
red warriors seen in the arena of the "Wild
West" yesterday were lieutenants under the
noted Chief Big Road and participants in the
frightful massacre of the memorable 25th of
June, 1876, and in the ranks of the United
States cavalry could be seen men who were
in service in the same campaign and were on
duty in the immediate neighborhood of the
valley of the Little Big Horn, and themselves
saw the gory scene when the battle
clouds had lifted and the Indian braves had
taken their departure.
A more realistic performance than that
now being given twice each day by the
"Wild West" of the great, though sorrowful,
event of "Custer's Last Charge" can not well
be imagined, and should be seen by every
body in Chicago and by all world's fair
visitors.
