Waterbury Democrat., 1902-05-23
BUFFALO BILL.
The Wild West is "Going Homep This
 Year


 The Wild West is "Going Home" This
 Year.
 During the present season of 1902 the entire Wild West organization will visit thesPacific coast. To do this Col onel Cody and his Rough Riders of the World must pass over the wide terri tory on which were enacted the many historic scenes daily represented in the arena provided for the comfort of the thousands who daily attend these exhibitions. It should be remembered that the wild western country as it once existed consisted of the region between the. Missouri and the foot hills of the Rockies called ''border states.' From Omaha the Wild West will visit all the principal cities on the trans-continental railroad lines. During this pilgrimage across what was once known as the plains or prafries Colonel Cody will pitch his camp on localities richly endowed with realistic tales and legends of the old days when the emsgrant trains wended their slow and toilsome way across the undulating sea of grass and flowers. Day after day these rough riders will find themselves on historic and hal lowed ground, historic for the scenes or battle and the courageous action of set tiers in defending themselves from saw age attack and cutting their path to- wards the setting sun; nallowed by the graves of soldier and citizen who died that the star of empire might steadily wend its way to the west.
 The most interesting feature of this yaoccona of 41,o yVi1d TVacf orofs thp cac- ton of country in which it had it's birth will be the revival of memory among those who retain a vivid knowl- edge of the wild and sanguinary scenes enacted during the years that followed the discovery of gold in the sands of Sutter's creek, California.
 To the people of the eastern and southern states the Wild West exhibi- ton has been a revelation, a realistic preseptment of a period of which they had no adequate conception. To the citizens of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kan sas. Utah, Colorado and California it will lift the curtain of memory for many an old man and excite the im- agination of the younger generations. for here they will find living and breezy picture of the past, now happily SOIlC lOE0NGF. lu0 SuTNlNOT O1 SOnle famous emigrant train or prairie schooner. the last of some old band of miners, the Argonauts of '49, all these will have their pulses quickened, their hearts warmed and their eyes bright ened by the truthful representation given by Colonel Cody of the time when he himself was young. No greater or severer test of the actual reality of tic wild west could be found than the carrying of it's red and white horsemen over territory more famil- far with it's personnel than any section of people all over the world. The Wild West has been received enthusiastica1- ly in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland and continental Europe. It met warm welcome in sunny France, in the German fatberland, among the wierd shadows of the ruined Coliseum at Rome, but when it crosses the Mis- souri and the North Platte every noun tain canyon will ring back the echo of glad greetings, for it will be at home amid the magnificent scenery of the Rockies, the plains and passes, and where best known beloved the most. The Wild West is coming to Water bury on June 4.