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It Was Because Of My Great Interest In The West, And My Belief That Its Development Would Be Assisted By The Interest I Could Awaken In Others, That I Decided To Bring The West To The East Through The Medium Of The Wild West Show.

Major North And Myself Went Out In Advance Of The Command Several Miles And Killed A Number Of Buffaloes.

The First Presentation Of My Show Was Given In May, 1883, At Omaha, Which I Had Then Chosen As My Home. From There We Made Our First Summer Tour, Visiting Practically Every Important City In The Country.

We Got More Provisions For Our Whiskey Than The Same Money, Which We Paid For The Liquor, Would Have Bought; So After All It Proved A Very Profitable Investment.

Frontiersmen Good And Bad, Gunmen As Well As Inspired Prophets Of The Future, Have Been My Camp Companions. Thus, I Know The Country Of Which I Am About To Write As Few Men Now Living Have Known It.