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  • Title: Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
  • Date: September 14, 1896
  • Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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[drawing]
West Hotel.
Minneapolis, Minn.

Sep. 14th 1896 [1] My Dear Beck

Bleistein Rumsey both write me they cant do a thing. I wrote you a few days ago That all parties [2] have agreed to close down and for you to close down. And I suppose you have. As its impossible for me to carry on the work alone until I can get assistance. Let me know at once what you have done

Yours truly W. F. Cody

PS. After grain at Irma [3] is harvested close down expense there I expect  

[drawing]
West Hotel.
Minneapolis, Minn.
______189_

you will have to leave a man there. But small Salaried Man will do. as well as a $7000 a month Man—

Bill

Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on September 14-15, 1896. The day's entry in the 1896 Route Diary: "Minneapolis, Minn. / Monday, Sept. 14. Weather looks bad for our opening here. Fine cold rain all the morning. We had a long and wet parade to-day. Major J. M. Burke, W. H. Gardner and M. Coyle were seen around the front to-day reviving acquaintances. Mrs. Wm. McCune, wife of Chief Usher Wm. McCune, came from Omaha to-day to spend a few days with "Billie." / Business, fair in the afternoon, big at night." [back]

Note 2: "Parties" are the shareholders in Shoshone Irrigation Company. [back]

Note 3: "Irma" is Irma Flats, located in the upper South Fork valley where a few thousand acres would be irrigated for arriving settlers. [back]

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