Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Chicago [1]July 28 [2] My Dear Beck
Those Preists [3] want their deeds to their Lots— I wish you would let me know if you are now ready and will make them out for them?
Snyder [4] writes me you have gone South to work for Alger— not but what I approove of it. But I cant beleive that you would leave until the water was again runing. If you have left our business just at this critical time— Its not right And I will so notify the Co. I hope its not true—
Very truly yours W. F. CodyNote 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in Chicago, Illinois, on July 25-30, 1898. [back]
Note 2: The year is not inscribed but is 1898. [back]
Note 3: "Priests" is reference to the Chicago clergy who promoted land sales and influenced their Polish and Bavarian parishioners to homestead in the Big Horn Basin. [back]
Note 4: "Snyder" is William "Okie" Snyder (b.1856), William F. Cody's ranch manager who had taken 160 acres near Irma Flats. [back]
