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Excerpt from Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World North Platte should be congratulated on the possession Of a citizen whose prominence or position is not bounded by his township, his country, or his State, but whose name is a household word, whose pictures are familiar, and whose character 13 known, not only throughout the nation, but has adorned pages, and interested the readers of foreign works and publications. We allude to our fellow citizen, Hon. W. F. Cody, whose sobriquet of Buffalo Bill' represents a popularity only bounded by the area of American - territory, and to which we, who live by his own fireside, may testify his worthy possession and to the modesty Of its wearing. His late return from a successful presentation to the East Of some Of the animated daily scenes and incidents that go to form the passing history of 'the Wild West' should be noted, as are events of importance, as it marks a new era in the history Of amusements: that for originality, adherenceto truth in holding the mirror up to Nature, ' and a fidelity to fact that is the 'true aim of art.' The reception accorded to his show that is not a show, but an illustration, ' in the cultured cities Of the East, notably Boston, Chicago, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Cleveland, must be gratifying to all in North Platte, in fact in'nebraska, where, in the incipiency Of the scheme, over a year ago, he demonstrated by courage, pluck and perseverance, its feasibility by its introduction in the festivities Of our national birthday celebration, and on the following natal day presented it on the shores of the Atlantic, to the plaudits Of over 25, 000 delighted Bostonians. The magnitude of the undertaking, the minutiae necessary to organizing, the bringing together from all points the best marksmen in the world, securing admirable and fitting representatives of the cattle trade, getting wild buffalo, elk, steers, mules, ponies, specimens of the red terrors of the prairie, and other features of interest known only to the pampas of the West, necessitating special trains of cars for transportation, and driving the strange cavalcade through confined Washington Street, Boston, in six weeks after leaving the Platte, was an accomplishment that stamps Cody as a wonder in energy, and gained for him the admiration and encomiums from the entire press of the East, recognition from the elzte of American society, encouragement from representatives of education, and the indorsement of his methods by the S P. C A and its noted president, Professor Henry Berg. - 1vart/'z Platte Tacgraph, I884. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
