Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-16
Bill NYE AND THE INDIAN
He Interviews one of the Members
Of Buffalo Bits Show.

NtW lofk Noflu. May
Bill arrived here today and | went owe
to see his troop when it co. of the boa
at Tomkinsvillc. He looks well. thougi
rather refined. lis hair was still fluent
and ! was glad he did not wear IL check
cred fore and-aft hat with him.
Buffalo Bill was boarded at Ealmora
for weeks at a time, they t,ll me-, anc
used 10 also sit on the throne and read til,
morning paper before Her Majesty was
up.
The arrivals Of the show seemed 10 be
real tickicd TO get home. especially III,
Indians. Red shirt said to me in sub.
stance that too much moisture prevailed
in England to suit him, and that chewing
tobacco WAS almost unknown there. He
also said that he had no use for IA country
that was run by "A sQuaw. lie claims that
il costs more 10 live in England than i,
docs in the west. Society demands more
of a man there, he says.
In The matter Of clothes alone he is out
II for a new blanket and Il for a large
red comforter which he wore when he
was presented To the queen. Red Shirt
says we have little idea along the banks
Of the Rosebud, the Upper Missouri and
the Sinking Water what slaves we are to
social ettihct. Sometimes they are five
hours eating what he could eat in ten
minutes.
! had quite long talk with Red Shirt
about the voyage. He was indisposed
part OF the way. He was not real sick,
but missed several meals, ] understood
him to say. | asked him why he didn't
advertise for them, but he couidn { an
derstand me. An Indian came dppre-
ciatc humor, especially after nc had been
II England for Il long time.
Buffalo Bin and TIE Prince of Wales
were very intimate, and they say that
Wales is very lonely since William has
GENE away. He will come TO this coun-
thy, so Red Shirt states, and camp out at
Earastina for several weeks, where he
can I've near TO Il. Bill and hear the wild
buffalo paw the ground and belier. The
queen viii have to stay at home and reign
this summer, though she does SO reluc-
family. She leads a busy life reigning
over the British Isles, bossing Europe,
umpiring India and writing for a syndi-
cate. She told Red Shirt that a good
lIibllN DtbIjC 'INitl Dti lol III ollAil l
pay taxes on it if they had it.
Red Shirt says that he likes the dra-
matte profession better than living at the
agency and rubbing mutton ,allow on his
children every spring, He was never
bothered with stage fright but once, and
that was when he tried to play first pas
senger in the Black Hills stage coach at
a matinee. He says they have tried "a
good many amateur Indians in their
troupe, but few had the proper concep-
ton OF the part they were to play. In
the massacre most Indians are too apt to
everyday the part. They allow their en-
thusiasm and realism to carry them too
far, he says. OF course that isn't his
language, but it is what he meant.
Red Shirt says he was offered good pay
to start an Indian outbreak in England
while he was there. He says tina, Eng.
land and the Allied Powers are all ready
Cor p rip snorting good war. They have
got lots Of arms and soldiers and ammu
milton. All they want is 10 have some
one start the war. He was offered good
wages to go on the road and work up q
feeling, but he is attached to his profes
sion and states hat he has given up car
mage and will henceforth work for the
elevation of the drowning.
He sa, S that all he asks for is a chance
to act out. Life can give him nothing
sweeter than the applause of the people
and good press notices, which he car
paste in his scrap-book. With a few in.
innate monarchs and plenty of rich, Who'll
some food he is willing that the war path
should become overgrown, though he
dislikcs to see an overgrown war path
more than anything else he knows of.
Red shirt has not been spoiled by adu-
~lation, however. as ] bad feared, but
knew me right off. asked him why he
did not write me while abroad. He said
that he found after he got there, that a,
all hotels, people have to pay for paper,
pens, ink, envelopes and ct cetera, extra.
This, and the fact that he could not write
anyway, had much to do with his silence.
He will ride a buckskin palfrey this
summer and whoop in "A shrill manner as
usual. He says that a very beautiful
paiefacc woman in England fell in love
with him and wept when he came away
She saw him act and from that moment
his image was ever in her heart. He
says that if he had not been on his guard
his dramatic future might have beer
clouded by q scandal. An actor canno,
be too careful. he thinks. Red Shirt
wears on his necklace two artificial from;
teeth, given him by prominent foreign.
ers who tried to ride in the Black Hills
coach. also one OF the ear tabs from a Il
lat Cocnct.
He states that the prince is as pleasant
g gentlemen as ever sat in his sock feet
and saw himself getting gradually bald
headed while waiting for his mother
shoes.
While ! do not entirely agree with the
author of the above sentiments nor with
all the remarks made by Red shirt there
is food for thought in ome of the senti,
ments made, ard | herewith turn them
over TO thinking minds Of America. Peo-
pie nsing other kinds Of minds, Of course,
will find little interest i'm them. The
thinking mind will be rarely disappointed
in anything commended by me.
BILL NYE.