Billboard advertising (Sept 1910)

26 T ti e Billboard 9.i|fl'EMBEK 3,. 1910. T BUF FALQ BILL Hero or Fakir?—An Exposition, an Appreciation, by One Who Knows the Man By FRANK WINCH. <FormeiIr Geaeral Press Sepresentatlve Buffalo Bill's WUd WeEt-Fawoee Bill's Far East.) Saga Bmsh PUIosopbr' calls Bnffalo Bill a fakir—ctates be never sliot an laillan—tbat be was bom a Bamam, (a enpboDlsm for all that stands .-for banco and- deceit' iu-tbc sbow bus- iness) that he hires Indians at a dollar a day to bite tbe dost—that he follows Colnmbos as . the liar of the West—in ^neral that he was ■n Imposter and ttaat his show was "concelTed in. bnllded upon and has always been, a bias." There yoa are. gentle xeadert 'Tbera JB the hero oC joor borhood dreams , and manhood Tlsioa teoDoelaatea r to a fnzzle. ■ Bnlblo Bm Is a faklTrra ..decelTer: of the. pabUCr^tbieTlng Its doUars for a show that was. nothing more tban- s colossal fraud—according to Sage Bmsh. Phil-; osopby. And In the same breath the editor of that wisely mis-named rag calls Dnstla Famnm a hdl^-wasb hero—that may or may not be so. I'hare no Interest In defending Mr. Famnm—. ■od none at all In taking the stand for Bnffalo Bill, save I know the latter personally, know him well, favorably and honorably, and It crits against the spirit of a western man to hear toe ravings at a bnUy-mgging - ITestem mis- antliTOpe stigmatize the detent name of a man wlio has done. more-, to : make the West possible than aU the penny premlam thon^t prostituted bis million of friends. That woold be jiseless, they know bis sterling worth too well. X hope to gala in- this story tbe sole point of broadening the -rlslon of some poor narrow-necked Individual, ostracized In loneliness way oof in the Cheyenne desert—that's all. ' William Frederick pody Is slxty-foor years old now. He was bom In Scott Ooanty,-Iowa, In I84S. His father moved down Into Kansas, then a raw, rough teirltary, there engaging In the border -warfare over ^wheiaier Kansas sbonld be free or slave. ; The father was killed by a CnetllIa.Mnie b6^ . eleven years old, went ont on ^the' plains .--wlth:^the drovers, the cow men, and the; long wagon trains that. rdled 'over southward and westward. ' . At twelve he was euoUed amoog the fighting men, fco- then: it was that be "got" his first Indian- Thenceforward, for many years, he was to know little peace; to live by strife, to win his livelihood by his marksmanship and-plains- craft. He developed into a crack shot and a brilliant scoat. When the ClvU War broke oat, he went to the front as one of the cavaliy sconts. His worth was recognised to each extent that the army made him Its own tor years thereafter. COL. W. F. CODY. .This photo was taken exclusively for Tbe Billboard. raporlngs of an embellie stupid, sitting as ^tor : of a sheet that ranks no better than tbe adjective ODalifylng it. Sage Brush FhUosc^hy could not nave existed In the days when vigilantes ex- ercised a care over men and morals—cdhl. tar and ftathen came at too high a premiam tben and n o thi n g leas could so aptly express the otter odium deserved by this anemic ebullition <tf Indecent slander. - Well. It Is Indeed, that time has mellowed the fighting nature of this same stnrdy Bnlfala Bill—otherwise there might he an editorial vacancy In Cheyenne that couldn't be properly filed nntil the next penitentiary panMe day. In a. recent issue Sage Bn«sh PhOosopby—a penny effort of mistorted abortive tbongbt— carried the annonncement that Bnffalo Bill waa to retire from public life—a life spanning over half a century in the education* of mankind—and m this occasion—takes the Sing at mnd-throw- iBg at a ciiaracter filed with heroic deeds—the offiniiing. of which even made Cheyenne possible —tne::.oatcome-of which will make Cheyenne stni richer in the mineral development now under way by the same much-maligned ^ Buffalo . Bin. or The Ron. Wm. F. Cody—veteran of civil wars, Indian Scoot and fighter, western civlllzer. land owner and the dievaller <rf - a passing era. Qnoting further from Sage Bmsh Philosophy. w» reed—"He realized that an ex-govemment aeoot covered with scars, and pockets filled with •esljB-rhe ought to cop out tbe plaudits of the nnlntude and incidentally map up some of their, wampum.": And of the sbow states that It IS typical, mainly, of conditions which never Betoally obtained. on the frontier—Bin knew thst Sffsns Seat expected and believed and -was : too -wise to qnairel with his bread and batter." BIow'..:70aE lioni. Hister Editor, you're In a fiVi Ever hear of anch vapid nonsense Uts.: then;' la a: not shell—the estimate of Oody—a hnmbng;, a boslness Imposition, a fakir! Vor shame on-the pencil that could indite sncb ahamelesa staff—more's tiie pity that the sponsor of Sage Brush PhDosopfay should stoop to mean- ness.^ the meanness of deliberate falsehood, of prosntating public confidence by. malignant mis- repceseutatlon. A glance through history- wfll laveal, and qoicUy 80, too, that writer's narrow- nesa .of knowledge. Co4y stands out a brilliant star shining tlnoagb dark clouds of a dangeraos Indian sknlklng period. My defense of Cody Is unsolicited and until Oils appears In print wholly unexpected—my obJecUve point is- not to set Cody right with He went west at the close of the war and v.-as soon helping the Federal troops In their warfare with the Mormons. Colonel and chief of sconts, he was, in his nineteenth year. Behind. blm, and listening to his advice, rode generals whose fame was na- tional; -yes, world-wide. Th^ relied on him, leaned on him. One; night, they say, "Uttle Phil" Sheridan sat listening to snne of his scents tsilring about - — - -- - t "Old em comrades. This one said that Jack" was the l>est scoot that ever anlffed^al- rie breezes—too. bad tbe Indians killed him. Another extolled "Long Hank" - and deplored Henry's'untimely death- at the hands of - tbe savages; and so on. "There's one thing shoot 'Buffalo Bill' that puts talm away ahead of those line scoots, in my estimation," , general Sheridan finally observed, "Bin keeps his hair and his life. That habit of his makes me feel a little safer when I'm with BUI." ^ . The Indian wars and battles and raids that he was In nomber so many that Bnffalo Bill to-day can't tell hpw many there were. Look np the campaigns - conducted all np and down the Dakotas, Montana; Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska. Kansas, by such men as Sheridan. Hancock. Croc*, Coster, Merrltt. Old, Terry—tlie senerala who afterward rose to highest command and national recognition; look op these campaigns and Buffalo Bill's name is written large In them. He was the very advance gnard for the first railroad ever driven across the _pralries and through the mountains—the Union Pacific. Away out on the plains, the railroaders had a hard time In getting their work through. The Indians bothered them, now lighting them In battle- front, DOW waylaytDtr them In ambnih, now let- ting fires to destroy .the: tracks. 'Communication with bases of supplies waa continually cnt. At times the rallmad bonders leven faced star- vation. .: They were saved by Cody. He was ae most expert bnffalo hunter that roamed the plains. He took a contract to sopply the road with buffalo meat—and he made good. From his em- ployment then come the sobriquet that has stnck—"Bnffalo Bill." Now be is a showman, and his been for twenty-seven years. Tlie alunraan, to socceed. Black Tents ^Pc%"*R'i^"'<' K lUeSE ft 80V, la ralton 8t„ V. T. City. FOR SALE TBE FWEST WABON SHOW WIHT IN IMERIU AL F. WHEELER'S NEW MODEL SHOWS Complete In every particular; horses, ponies, mules, cage animals, four fine camels, tents and equlpmenta, trained stock to give an entire performance. Horses nearly all iina yonng stock; tents all new this season: everything the best that money can buy. 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