is the hero of a famous ride of sixteen mile from the camp to Pine Ridge, along the line of which road were 7,000 hostile Indians eager for his death.
Mr. Allison, a famous scout, who brought Sitting Bull from Canada, was also a guest of the Wild West and a witness of the performance from the grand stand.
In Col Cody the cadets saw the last living scout of the old regime, when scouts were of more consequence than they are in the present day. Many graduates of West Point who are now prominent in the army acknowledge their indebtedness to Col Cody for their first lessons in practical warfare and knowledge of the country west of the Missouri.
Army Officers Present.
Among the prominent personages present in the grand stand were:
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. Stanley, Capt. Eli L Huggins, Capt. Francis Michler, Capt. Marion P. Maus, Brevet Brigadier General Chauncer McKeever, Col. Edward M. Heyl, Maj. Stephen W. Groesbeck, brevet Brigadier General Judson D. Bingham, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Jeremiah H. Gillman, Col. Bernard J. D. Irwin, Lieut Col. George W. Candee, First Lieutenant Cassius E Gillette, First Lieutenant John L Chamberlin, Capt. James Allen, Brevet Colonel Edward B. Wilfiston, Capt. Frank D. Baldwin. Capt. Jesse M. Lee, Capt. Daniel D. Wheeler, Capt. Daniel M. Appel, Maj. George W. Baird, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Edmond Rice, Chaplain Alen Allensworth, Capt. Walter S. Schuyler, Capt. Edward J. McClernand, Capt. Frederick A. Smith, Capt. William Baird, Capt. John Pitcher, Capt. William A. Shunk, First Lieutenant Mitchell F. Jamar, First Lieutenant James L. Wilson, First Lieutenant Thomas J. Clay, First Lieutenant Curtis B. Hoppin, First Lieutenant William C. Brown, First Lieutenant Edgar W. Howe, First Lieutenant Lewis H. Sother, First Lieutenant ®Robert F. Ames, First Lieutenant Robert J. C. Irvine, First Lieutenant Abner Pickering, First Lieutenant Stephen M. Foote, First Lieutenant James O'Green, First Lieutenant Walter L Gordon, Second Lieutenant Edmund Witlenmeyer, Second Lieutenant Guy H. Preston, Second Lieutenant ElL A. Helmick, Naj. Clifton Comly, Capt. John F. Rodgers, Capt Abram A. Harbach, Capt. John G. Burke, Capt. Louis A. LaGarde, Capt. Andrew H. Russel, Cat. Richard E. Thompson, Capt. Frank A. Edwards, Capt. Charles H. Heyl, Maj. George M. Randall, Capt. Fayette W. Roe, Col. Thomas C. Sullivan, Capt. Francis B. Jones, Capt. William L. Marshall, Russell Harrison, Gen Hazen, Capt. How Lieut. Brewer, Lieut. Flemming, Capt. Capon, Lieut. Stevens, Lieut. Smith, and 136 men from Fort Sheridan. Capt. How
