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Dispatch april 24

BUFFALO BILL'S SHOW.
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Many Unique Features Faithfully Portraying the Western Life of Pioneers- Beginning Wednesday.

Among the numerous world's fair attractions "Buffalo Bill" probably figures as the biggest card. He has a small fair of his own, which to a great many people will appear even more interesting than the great white city. "Buffalo Bill," or Colonel William F. Cody, statesman, orator, Indian scout, trapper and herder, has gained more distinction as a historian than any other living man. His history of the wild west, however, is not a written book, nor a printed pamphlet- it is the west as it existed but a few years ago; as "Buffalo Bill" saw it and as many other pioneers saw it. It is a living history of the wild west, and with it the most stupenduous attraction as a show that has ever been seen.

A great many years and millions of money have been spent by Colonel Cody in getting together a perfect organization, but he has at last succeeded.

Beside making it a living history of the wild west he has secured features which make it a history also of the barbaric east. Cossacks and Tartars, Arabs and Syrians in the armor of olden times are seen in the congress of rough riders, side by side with Indians, cowboys Mexican ruralie and Spanish gauchos.

A large space of ground has been secured for this attraction on Sixty-third street, opposite the world's fair, and an amphitheater that will seat 18,000 people has been erected. Beginning Wednesday, April 26, there will be two performances daily for six months, during which all of Chicago and her guests will have an opportunity to see this wonderful combination.

Herald April 24
It would be hard to depict or even to imagine the emotions which the great city of Chicago and the great fair must excite in the breast of that fierce old warrior, Rain-in-the-Face. There is no doubt that many of the Indian chiefs who in the past have so valiently led their people in their vain struggle against the encroaching civilization of the white man ahve had but an imperfect idea of the latter's power and resources. They have believed that civilization was represented only by what they saw in the far west, and that the troopers led against them formed the chief strength of the white man's army. Perhaps Rain-in-the-Face now gains for the first time a correct idea of the puisance of civilization and of the certain extinction that awaits any people, however brave, who oppose it.

Evening Journal april [2?]

LASSOED A KANGAROO.
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One of Buffalo Bill's Scouts Performs a Novel Feat at the Fair.

"Hurry up with a lariat," shouted Buck Taylor, one of Buffalo Bill's western scouts, with vehement voice to his fellow cowpunchers yesterday noon as he spied one of Hagenbacks' kangaroos leaping wildly toward the cowboy camp. Buck Taylor has lassoed many a Texan steer with perfect confidence and self-control during his western escapades, but never before had he been called upon to capture so ungainly a looking creature as this. The kangaroo, regardless of the obstructions, took a direct course toward Stony Island avenue. The large eight-foot fence around the fair grounds was only a temporary impediment and the animal, pausing for a moment in front of the high barrier gave one leap and was lost to the sight of the would-be pursuers. Improving his every opportunity, the kangaroo made a desperate run for freedom. The animal met the cowboy near the Fifty-seventh street entrance

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Dispatch april 24

BUFFALO BILL'S SHOW.
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Many Unique Features Faithfully Portraying the Western Life of Pioneers- Beginning Wednesday.

Among the numerous world's fair attractions "Buffalo Bill" probably figures as the biggest card. He has a small fair of his own, which to a great many people will appear even more interesting than the great white city. "Buffalo Bill," or Colonel William F. Cody, statesman, orator, Indian scout, trapper and herder, has gained more distinction as a historian than any other living man. His history of the wild west, however, is not a written book, nor a printed pamphlet- it is the west as it existed but a few years ago; as "Buffalo Bill" saw it and as many other pioneers saw it. It is a living history of the wild west, and with it the most stupenduous attraction as a show that has ever been seen.

A great many years and millions of money have been spent by Colonel Cody in getting together a perfect organization, but he has at last succeeded.

Beside making it a living history of the wild west he has secured features which make it a history also of the barbaric east. Cossacks and Tartars, Arabs and Syrians in the armor of olden times are seen in the congress of rough riders, side by side with Indians, cowboys Mexican ruralie and Spanish gauchos.

A large space of ground has been secured for this attraction on Sixty-third street, opposite the world's fair, and an amphitheater that will seat 18,000 people has been erected. Beginning Wednesday, April 26, there will be two performances daily for six months, during which all of Chicago and her guests will have an opportunity to see this wonderful combination.

Herald April 24
It would be hard to depict or even to imagine the emotions which the great city of Chicago and the great fair must excite in the breast of that fierce old warrior, Rain-in-the-Face. There is no doubt that many of the Indian chiefs who in the past have so valiently led their people in their vain struggle against the encroaching civilization of the white man ahve had but an imperfect idea of the latter's power and resources. They have believed that civilization was represented only by what they saw in the far west, and that the troopers led against them formed the chief strength of the white man's army. Perhaps Rain-in-the-Face now gains for the first time a correct idea of the puisance of civilization and of the certain extinction that awaits any people, however brave, who oppose it.

Evening Journal april [2?]

LASSOED A KANGAROO.
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One of Buffalo Bill's Scouts Performs a Novel Feat at the Fair.

"Hurry up with a lariat," shouted Buck Taylor, one of Buffalo Bill's western scouts, with vehement voice to his fellow cowpunchers yesterday noon as he spied one of Hagenbacks' kangaroos leaping wildly toward the cowboy camp. Buck Taylor has lassoed many a Texan steer with perfect confidence and self-control during his western escapades, but never before had he been called upon to capture so ungainly a looking creature as this. The kangaroo, regardless of the obstructions, took a direct course toward Stony Island avenue. The large eight-foot fence around the fair grounds was only a temporary impediment and the animal, pausing for a moment in front of the high barrier gave one leap and was lost to the sight of the would-be pursuers. Improving his every opportunity, the kangaroo made a desperate run for freedom. The animal met the cowboy near the Fifty-seventh street entrance