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  • Title: Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
  • Date: October 1, 1896
  • Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders.
of the World.

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Col. W. F. Cody. (Buffalo Bill), President.


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Nate Salsbury. Vice-President & Manager.
John M. Burke. General Manager.
Albert E. Sheible, Business Manager.
Jule Keen, Treasurer.

Muscatine, Ia [1]
Sep Oct 1 st [2] My Dear George.

I am fretting and cant hear from you or in fact from any one from that end. Cant tell what you are doing. The last I heard from any of you— Paxton & Gallagher [3] wired me to go security for annother bill of goods. Saying $1.306 past due. Buffalo partners [4] refuse absolutely to do nothing. As I have written time and again— I have no idea what you are doing

Yours— Col  

PS—
Suppose you have closed down. As I get no more daily reports. Would have thanked some one if they had told me—

Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in Muscatine, Iowa, on October 1, 1896. [back]

Note 2: The year is not inscribed by Cody but is 1896. [back]

Note 3: Paxton & Gallagher Wholesale Grocery Company was founded in Omaha in 1879 by William Paxton and Benjamin Gallagher. [back]

Note 4: "Buffalo partners" are the investors from Buffalo, N. Y., including Bleistein, Rumsey, and Gerrans. [back]

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