El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-19
PASSING OF ROMANTIC WEST
AND WITH 1T BUFFALO BILL
An Incident of His Indian F" arIare
Days Recalled by Announcement
of His Retirement.


Time is not far off when the COWBOY
must go TO training school TO learn
the art o1 shooting and horSemanShlP
The last vestige of those wild frontler
davs ont West is conferred in Buffalo
RiIl the Nations idol. The romantic
West is but a memory; everywhere
scattered are the monuments OF clNl1-
ization; the milestOnes OF commercldi
nroeress have staked off that vast arid
tract where history tells that once
nothing grew but the wilderness ana
indians Both have succumbed TO the
inevitable. but little remains to us ex-
cept history.
Buffalo Bill, the greatest of scouts,
the last of them all, is the -inal chapter
in that history.
Historians have told US OF the Garner
DAYS. Cooper in his Leather Stocking
Tales, has thrilled the youthful breast
mostly with heroic unrealities. Today
we have the last of the argonauts, and
for today only, for Col. Cody's appear
ance in this city on Oct. % will posi-
lively be the last time he will ever
appear in the saddle. With the pass
ing of Buffalo Bill from active life
the amusement world loses its great
est attraction. In every country Buff
falo Bill is the popular hero; in him
is exemplified the type of manhood
that did things when duty called, and
all the world loves the man that's a
man.
For 80 years Buffalo Bill has gath
cred about him the most exceptional
talent of it's kind in the Wild West;
his entertainment has always been one
of thrilling interest-of course the
main interest centering in him himself.
The public and press year after year
10 vic info6 nr1iSQ his
endeavors and each year proclaimed
the exhibition better than the last.
For instance, The Battle of Summit
Springs. that mastery drama of In
dian strife. Historically the events
permit of no alteration, but scenically
they have been elaborated, made more
picturesque, more people added, and
one big incident also that heretofore
had to be omitted owing to insuffi-
cient transportation means, now be-
comes an important part of the spec
tacle.
Do you remember your history?-re-
call the incident that happened July
IL. 1869, near the border line of Ne
braska? A party of renegade Indians,
frenzied with a thirst for white mans
blood, had startled the country with
their fearful depredations. Men and
children fell beneath their cruel knife;
whole towns RACED to the ground; and
worse yet, women were made captives,
undergoing the most frightful fortunes.
The settlements, then few and far be-
tween, were terrorized-they appealed
to the government for assistance. Gen.
E A. Carr was placed in command Of
the expedition. Buffalo Bill was his
Chief of Scouts. History records that
day of carnage and blood-stained
fields; it tells how Buffalo Bill, after
almost superhuman hardships, located
the village Of red skins; how his long
rifle spit its lead into the heart of
Chief Tall Bull; it tells that the In
dams were routed or made prisoners
and the band once and for all rendered
harmless.
Buffalo Bill will be in the saddle at
every performance. He will be there
to bid you a last farewell.
(Adv.)