During his stage career he also continued to act as an army scout during the Indian Wars, and many of these clippings carry reports of Indian battles. Crook was afraid of breaking his crockery and otherwise injuring his camp equipage. My first newspaper ad for the reactivated Wild West is from the part of that 1884 first season before Bogardus left the show. The name of the newspaper or exact date in unknown. In 1916, the year before his death, he appeared with the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch Shows.
Newspaper clippings other than advertisements are probably more interesting than the ads.
May was hustled out and Buffalo Bill was a hero at the hotel, but there was talk of a possible dual which never developed. Just one of Buffalo Bill's many problems. Many of these clippings are interviews with Buffalo Bill and articles about the appearances of the Wild West Show, but there are too many to detail here. There are also many articles about his associates. These start with the opening of the West and come down in well defined periods to the present day.