| 331Journal Aug 12.
Custer's Last Charge to Be Depicted.
To every one who watched the brilliant
achievements of General Custer in the civil
war and, later on, the plains, the Battle of
"The Little Big Horn" will always be interesting.
Led into an untenable position
by the carelessness and incompetency of his
subordinates. Custer made a brave stand
for his life and the preservation of his command,
but numbers were against him and
he was overpowered.
Colonel Cody and Mr. Salsbury have decided
to make a representation of Custer's
last charge as part of the programme they
are offering to the public in their "Wild
West" exhibition. The programme as at
present arranged will be carried out every
day without fail, and the adding thereto of
the "Battle of the Little Big Horn" will
serve only to make the exhibition
more interesting, and the entertainment
more valuable and more educative. Among
the many noted persons taking part in the
representation who were engaged in the
campaign of 1876 through the valley of the
Big Horn at the time of the massacre of
Custer, and his forces will be Buffalo Bill
himself, who was then Chief of Scouts of
the United States army; Private Hackett,
who was with Colonel Reno in the first engagement
of that campaign, and Chiefs
Painted Horse, Little Wolf, Last Horse,
Black Bear, Red Elk and other who were
among the Indians opposed to Custer's
forces.
Extensive arrangements have been made
to perfect all the details and make them as
true to the original as possible. New and
correct scenery on an extensive scale made
from photographs and sketches, and duplicates
of the implements of civilized and
savage warfare used in that battle
have been procured for use
in the representation. These, with so many
of the original participants in the war, will
serve to make the reproduction of these
scenes by Messrs. Cody and Salsbury, not
only historically correct, but peculiarly
unique, in that it will be the first time in
the history of amusements that original
characters are seen in mimic
representation of historical events in which
they were chief actors. On Wednesday
when the first representation is made one
of the most distinguished audiences of military
and other notables ever gathered together
will be present.
Post
Aug 12.
Although the Wild West show continues
to enjoy a very large patronage at the arena,
corner of Stony Island avenue and Sixty-third
street, the management has decided to introduce
a novelty in the programme next Wednesday in
the form of an exact reproduction of Custer's
last fight, partcipated in by three chiefs who
were in the conflict. Meantime the regular entertainment
will be presented twice daily, "rain
or shine."
Times Aug 13"
The only novelty of any account in this
week's amusement bill will be found in Buffalo
Bill's Wild West. There, Wednesday
next, it is intended to add to the realistic exhibition
of frontier life a dramatic representation
of the tragic massacre of the Little
Big Horn, where the gallant Custer and
so many more brave American soldiers bit
the dust. Many of the Indians who took
part in that horrible affair will appear in the
mimic show. Every attention will be paid to
the details of the work, and as nearly a perfect
representation will be given as the prescribed
limits of the arena and the limited
number of people will allow, but it is safe to
say that all the salient features will be
brought out with a fidelity to history astonishing
to the spectator. New scenery on a
grand scale has been made from photographs
and sketches; all the necessary and correct
implements as properties have been secured,
and as many of the actors were actual participants
in the battle a thrilling representation
may be confidently anticipated by the
public. Col. Cody and Mr. Salsbury do not
do things by halves.
Herald Aug 13"
LITTLE BIG HORN MASSACRE.
The massacre of the Little Big Horn has
become a sadly memorable event in the history
of the Indian fronter. It was and will
be remembered when all other battles between
the United States army and the Indians
shall have been forgotten. It occupies
a page alone in the memoirs of Indian
warfare. To reproduce this scene, having
as actors many of those who actually participated
in the campaign and some
who were in the battle itself, is a wonderful
undertaking. Ye this is soon actually
to be done here in Chicago. Chiefs
Plenty Horses, Painted Horse and Rocky
Bear, who were in the fight, are now with
Cody and Salisbury in their great "Wild
West," and with them are many of the
Indians who formed the rank and file of the
Indian forces. Assisted by other Indian
members of the "Wild West" and joined by
members of the Seventh United States cavalry,
led by Colonel W. F. Cody himself,
these historic characters will in the Wild
West grounds on Wednesday, Aug. 16, give
a vivid and realistic picture of the great
battle, giving in detail every incident of
that terrible struggle. This great exhibition
will not only be of historical interest,
but will, it is promised, be a beautifully real
picture.
The addition of this feature will not cause
the omission from the programme of any
other of the interesting numbers which have
made the "Wild West" so popular, but is in
the nature of an extra attraction. At all
other performances prior to Wednesday
next the same attractive exhibition that has
already won such universal and unqualified
approval will be given each day.
New scenery has been prepared, and will
not only be on a scale of immensity never
before seen, but will be made with absolute
fidelity to the photographs and sketches
made on the ground. Over three hundred
people will be engaged, and no doubt the
entire representation will be faithful, thrilling
and interesting.
Sunday Globe
Aug 13"
PASSING OF CUSTER.
Battle of Little Big Horn to Be
Reproduced by Buffalo
Bill.
THRILLING WILD WEST SHOW.
The Most Famous Episode in the
History of Indian
Warfare.
(DRAWING)
A
THRILLING
event of the
rarest interest
in the history
of the west
will be added
to the many
mimic scenes
of the settlement
of that
country as given by Buffalo Bill at his
Wild West entertainment on Sixty-third
street next Wednesday afternoon
and each succeeding day until the close
of the season. All of the many interesting
features that have served to
make the Wild West the most popular
entertainment ever offered to our people
will be retained intact, and in order
to give renewed and added interest
thereto Col. Cody and Mr. Salsbury
have decided to reproduce the most
thrilling chapter in the history of
Indian warfare of the present century.
No more picturesque figure adorns
the pages of modern history than that
of the lamented Gen. Custer, and his
military career through the late war of
the rebellion and afterward as an Indian
fighter in the northwest is all
through entwined with laurels of an
imperishable species. No more intrepid
cavalrymen belonged to the union
forces, save the gallant Sheridan, and
both become famous, especially for
their daring charges and the almost invariably
successful results that followed
them. At the close of the civil war
Custer was sent to the frontier and
proved himself a wise and succesful
antagonist of the red man, until on
June 25, 1876, at the battle of the Little
Big Horn, with 245 men at his back he
made his last charge on a Sioux village
of over 3,000 well armed and equipped
Indians, with the result that this last
desperate but necessary sortie on his
part was the entire annihilation of himself
and his gallant men. No more
bloody page can be found in the history
of America than that descriptive of the
battle of the Little Big Horn. The
wily cunning and shrewdness of the
red man was practiced with the utmost
finesse by the thousands who were opposed
to the handful of supporters of
Custer, and it is no marvel that the
latter were so suddenly and completely
wiped out of existence.
Col. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was the chief
of scouts of the United States army
under command of Gen. Crook, and it is
this incident in history that he and Mr.
Salsbury have decided to add to their
programm and with the aid of the
famous Seventh cavalry, many of whom
were cut down like blades of grass in
that campaign, together with a number
of the chiefs and Sioux Indians engaged
in that war, some of whom were
directly opposed to Custer when he fell,
the thrilling representation of that day's
massacre will be given in the arena of
the Wild West.
New and correct scenery has been
painted. All of the properties and implements
necessary for correctness in
detail have been prepared and it is safe
to say thats with their reputation for
faithful presentationof all that they
advertise to do the production of the
battle of the "Little Big Horn, or
Custer's Last Charge" will be the most
thrilling, the most picturesque and the
most accurate representation of a historical
event that has ever taken place
in the history of amusements in
America.
Chiefs Rock Bear, Painted Horse,
Plenty Horses and other Sioux warriors
of the Ogalala band who were led
by the famous Big Road in the fight
with Custer, will take part in the
mimic scene as it is presented by Col.
Cody. These characters, with Col.
Cody himself and members of the Seventh
cavalry now with him, will serve
to add a realism to the picture presented
that never before has it been
possible to give any sort of entertainment.
Actual participants in one of
the bloodiest wars of the country seventeen
years afterward taking part in an
arenic representation of the same will
naturally excite an interest and lend a
value to the representation that could
not be had from the employment of ordinary
actors and imitation soldiers and
savages.
The addition of this scene to the other
features of the Wild West will
complete and round out a program the
equal of which has never been, and it
would be impossible to repeat anywhere.
Until the production of the
battle of the Little Big Horn on Wednesday
next the principal program will
not be changed, and the crowds that
are now attending each performance
will no doubt be largely augmented by
this addition.
Tribune Aug 13
Buffalo Bill's Wild West has a novelty for
its patrons in "The Battle of the Little Big
Horn; or, Custer's Last Charge," which will
be given Wednesday for the first time. The
participants will include many who were
actually in the battle and who took part in
the campaign. The Indian Chiefs Rocky Bear,
Painted Horse, and Plenty Horses led
their savages in the fight, and are now with
Buffalo Bill; and with them are many braves
who followed their leadership in that direful
conflict. Col. Cody was himself at that time
chief scout of that United States army, and
took a prominent part in the campaign.
| 331Journal Aug 12.
Custer's Last Charge to Be Depicted.
To every one who watched the brilliant
achievements of General Custer in the civil
war and, later on, the plains, the Battle of
"The Little Big Horn" will always be interesting.
Led into an untenable position
by the carelessness and incompetency of his
subordinates. Custer made a brave stand
for his life and the preservation of his command,
but numbers were against him and
he was overpowered.
Colonel Cody and Mr. Salsbury have decided
to make a representation of Custer's
last charge as part of the programme they
are offering to the public in their "Wild
West" exhibition. The programme as at
present arranged will be carried out every
day without fail, and the adding thereto of
the "Battle of the Little Big Horn" will
serve only to make the exhibition
more interesting, and the entertainment
more valuable and more educative. Among
the many noted persons taking part in the
representation who were engaged in the
campaign of 1876 through the valley of the
Big Horn at the time of the massacre of
Custer, and his forces will be Buffalo Bill
himself, who was then Chief of Scouts of
the United States army; Private Hackett,
who was with Colonel Reno in the first engagement
of that campaign, and Chiefs
Painted Horse, Little Wolf, Last Horse,
Black Bear, Red Elk and other who were
among the Indians opposed to Custer's
forces.
Extensive arrangements have been made
to perfect all the details and make them as
true to the original as possible. New and
correct scenery on an extensive scale made
from photographs and sketches, and duplicates
of the implements of civilized and
savage warfare used in that battle
have been procured for use
in the representation. These, with so many
of the original participants in the war, will
serve to make the reproduction of these
scenes by Messrs. Cody and Salsbury, not
only historically correct, but peculiarly
unique, in that it will be the first time in
the history of amusements that original
characters are seen in mimic
representation of historical events in which
they were chief actors. On Wednesday
when the first representation is made one
of the most distinguished audiences of military
and other notables ever gathered together
will be present.
Post
Aug 12.
Although the Wild West show continues
to enjoy a very large patronage at the arena,
corner of Stony Island avenue and Sixty-third
street, the management has decided to introduce
a novelty in the programme next Wednesday in
the form of an exact reproduction of Custer's
last fight, partcipated in by three chiefs who
were in the conflict. Meantime the regular entertainment
will be presented twice daily, "rain
or shine."
[Times?] Aug 13"
The only novelty of any account in this
week's amusement bill will be found in Buffalo
Bill's Wild West. There, Wednesday
next, it is intended to add to the realistic exhibition
of frontier life a dramatic representation
of the tragic massacre of the Little
Big Horn, where the gallant Custer and
so many more brave American soldiers bit
the dust. Many of the Indians who took
part in that horrible affair will appear in the
mimic show. Every attention will be paid to
the details of the work, and as nearly a perfect
representation will be given as the prescribed
limits of the arena and the limited
number of people will allow, but it is safe to
say that all the salient features will be
brought out with a fidelity to history astonishing
to the spectator. New scenery on a
grand scale has been made from photographs
and sketches; all the necessary and correct
implements as properties have been secured,
and as many of the actors were actual participants
in the battle a thrilling representation
may be confidently anticipated by the
public. Col. Cody and Mr. Salsbury do not
do things by halves.
Herald Aug 13"
LITTLE BIG HORN MASSACRE.
The massacre of the Little Big Horn has
become a sadly memorable event in the history
of the Indian fronter. It was and will
be remembered when all other battles between
the United States army and the Indians
shall have been forgotten. It occupies
a page alone in the memoirs of Indian
warfare. To reproduce this scene, having
as actors many of those who actually participated
in the campaign and some
who were in the battle itself, is a wonderful
undertaking. Ye this is soon actually
to be done here in Chicago. Chiefs
Plenty Horses, Painted Horse and Rocky
Bear, who were in the fight, are now with
Cody and Salisbury in their great "Wild
West," and with them are many of the
Indians who formed the rank and file of the
Indian forces. Assisted by other Indian
members of the "Wild West" and joined by
members of the Seventh United States cavalry,
led by Colonel W. F. Cody himself,
these historic characters will in the Wild
West grounds on Wednesday, Aug. 16, give
a vivid and realistic picture of the great
battle, giving in detail every incident of
that terrible struggle. This great exhibition
will not only be of historical interest,
but will, it is promised, be a beautifully real
picture.
The addition of this feature will not cause
the omission from the programme of any
other of the interesting numbers which have
made the "Wild West" so popular, but is in
the nature of an extra attraction. At all
other performances prior to Wednesday
next the same attractive exhibition that has
already won such universal and unqualified
approval will be given each day.
New scenery has been prepared, and will
not only be on a scale of immensity never
before seen, but will be made with absolute
fidelity to the photographs and sketches
made on the ground. Over three hundred
people will be engaged, and no doubt the
entire representation will be faithful, thrilling
and interesting.
Sunday Globe
Aug 13"
PASSING OF CUSTER.
Battle of Little Big Horn to Be
Reproduced by Buffalo
Bill.
THRILLING WILD WEST SHOW.
The Most Famous Episode in the
History of Indian
Warfare.
A THRILLING
event of the
rarest interest
in the history
of the west
will be added
to the many
mimic scenes
of the settlement
of that
country as given by Buffalo Bill at his
Wild West entertainment on Sixty-third
street next Wednesday afternoon
and each succeeding day until the close
of the season. All of the many interesting
features that have served to
make the Wild West the most popular
entertainment ever offered to our people
will be retained intact, and in order
to give renewed and added interest
thereto Col. Cody and Mr. Salsbury
have decided to reproduce the most
thrilling chapter in the history of
Indian warfare of the present century.
No more picturesque figure adorns
the pages of modern history than that
of the lamented Gen. Custer, and his
military career through the late war of
the rebellion and afterward as an Indian
fighter in the northwest is all
through entwined with laurels of an
imperishable species. No more intrepid
cavalrymen belonged to the union
forces, save the gallant Sheridan, and
both become famous, especially for
their daring charges and the almost invariably
successful results that followed
them. At the close of the civil war
Custer was sent to the frontier and
proved himself a wise and succesful
antagonist of the red man, until on
June 25, 1876, at the battle of the Little
Big Horn, with 245 men at his back he
made his last charge on a Sioux village
of over 3,000 well armed and equipped
Indians, with the result that this last
desperate but necessary sortie on his
part was the entire annihilation of himself
and his gallant men. No more
bloody page can be found in the history
of America than that descriptive of the
battle of the Little Big Horn. The
wily cunning and shrewdness of the
red man was practiced with the utmost
finesse by the thousands who were opposed
to the handful of supporters of
Custer, and it is no marvel that the
latter were so suddenly and completely
wiped out of existence.
Col. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was the chief
of scouts of the United States army
under command of Gen. Crook, and it is
this incident in history that he and Mr.
Salsbury have decided to add to their
programm and with the aid of the
famous Seventh cavalry, many of whom
were cut down like blades of grass in
that campaign, together with a number
of the chiefs and Sioux Indians engaged
in that war, some of whom were
directly opposed to Custer when he fell,
the thrilling representation of that day's
massacre will be given in the arena of
the Wild West.
New and correct scenery has been
painted. All of the properties and implements
necessary for correctness in
detail have been prepared and it is safe
to say thats with their reputation for
faithful presentationof all that they
advertise to do the production of the
battle of the "Little Big Horn, or
Custer's Last Charge" will be the most
thrilling, the most picturesque and the
most accurate representation of a historical
event that has ever taken place
in the history of amusements in
America.
Chiefs Rock Bear, Painted Horse,
Plenty Horses and other Sioux warriors
of the Ogalala band who were led
by the famous Big Road in the fight
with Custer, will take part in the
mimic scene as it is presented by Col.
Cody. These characters, with Col.
Cody himself and members of the Seventh
cavalry now with him, will serve
to add a realism to the picture presented
that never before has it been
possible to give any sort of entertainment.
Actual participants in one of
the bloodiest wars of the country seventeen
years afterward taking part in an
arenic representation of the same will
naturally excite an interest and lend a
value to the representation that could
not be had from the employment of ordinary
actors and imitation soldiers and
savages.
The addition of this scene to the other
features of the Wild West will
complete and round out a program the
equal of which has never been, and it
would be impossible to repeat anywhere.
Until the production of the
battle of the Little Big Horn on Wednesday
next the principal program will
not be changed, and the crowds that
are now attending each performance
will no doubt be largely augmented by
this addition.
Tribune Aug 13
Buffalo Bill's Wild West has a novelty for
its patrons in "The Battle of the Little Big
Horn; or, Custer's Last Charge," which will
be given Wednesday for the first time. The
participants will include many who were
actually in the battle and who took part in
the campaign. The Indian Chiefs Rocky Bear,
Painted Horse, and Plenty Horses led
their savages in the fight, and are now with
Buffalo Bill; and with them are many braves
who followed their leadership in that direful
conflict. Col. Cody was himself at that time
chief scout of that United States army, and
took a prominent part in the campaign.
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