. The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide. An autobiography . which thereader will remember was my boyhood home. 304: LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL. Having secured my Indian actors, and along with themMr. C. A. Burgess, a government interpreter, and Ed. , known as the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, I started for Baltimore,where I organized mycombination, andwhich w a s the largesttroupe I had yet hadon the road ; openingin that city at t h eOpera House, underthe management ofHon. John T. Ford,and then started on asouthern tour, playingin Washingto
. The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide. An autobiography . which thereader will remember was my boyhood home. 304: LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL. Having secured my Indian actors, and along with themMr. C. A. Burgess, a government interpreter, and Ed. , known as the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, I started for Baltimore,where I organized mycombination, andwhich w a s the largesttroupe I had yet hadon the road ; openingin that city at t h eOpera House, underthe management ofHon. John T. Ford,and then started on asouthern tour, playingin Washington, Rich-mond and as far southas Savannah, Georgia^where we were broughtto a sudden halt, owingto the yellow feverwhich was then cruellyraging in the beautifulcities of the Land ofthe cotton and thecane. While playing inWashington, I sudden-ly learned from a re-p o r t e r—Washingtonnewspaper men knoweverything—that m yIndians were to beseized by the Government and sent back to their that there was foundation for the rumor, I at oncesought General Carl Shurz, Secretary of the Interior, and. UNE OF TUK TROUPK. A NEW PLAY. 365 asked him if lie intended depriving me of ray Indian said that he did, as the Indians were aM-aj from theirreservation without leave. I answered that 1 had had Indianswith me the year before and nothing had been said about it;but Commissioner Ilaight replied that the Indians were the Avards of the government, and were not allowed off oftheir reservation. I told the Commissioner that the Indians were frequentlyoff of their reservations out west, as I had a distinct remem-brance of meeting them upon several occasions on the war2)ath, and furthermore I thought I was benefitting the In-dians as well as the government, by taking them all over theUnited States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs,life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned totheir people they could make known all they had seen. After a conversat
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