The Classic Event in Motion Picture Annals — First Ever U. S. Government Endorsed. The Capital's Social Sensation.
THE BUFFALO BILL FILM CO.
OPENS AT MATINEE, 3 P. M., SUNDAY, MARCH 8, AT
TABOR GRAND OPERA HOUSE
FOR ONE WEEK — TWICE DAILY — EVERY AFT. AT 2:15 — EVERY NIGHT, 8:15
Present History Re-Enacted by the Makers.
INDIAN WARS IN THE WEST VISUALIZED
W. F. Cody "Buffalo Bill."
These pictures have the transcendent merit of being presented by veteran participants thus having the value of AUTHENTICITY, PERSONALITY, FAITHFUL PORTRAYAL WITH GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL of effective collated episodes of TRAILING, FINDING, FIGHTING — IN SKIRMISH and BATTLE — directed in detail by those who witnessed and were engaged in the Melees, assisted by all the SKILL AND INGENUITY THE ESSANAY COMPANY EXPERTS COULD DEVISE — in simply reproducing events in the last days OF THE LAST THREE DECADES of the CENTURIES OF BATTLE BETWEEN THE RED AND WHITE MAN FROM THE SANGUINARY CAMPAIGNS OF THE '60s — the General E. A. Carr victory at Summitt Springs in 1869, when Scout Cody killed Chief Tall Bull; of the '70s — the bloody fight at War Bonnet Creek in 1876 (Custer's Campaign), in which Buffalo Bill, in personal duel, dispatched Chief Yellow Hand.
The death of CHIEF SITTING BULL to the GHOST DANCE, continental-wide rebellion craze.
THE INDIANS' LAST STAND — WOUNDED KNEE and THE MISSION, 1890 and 1891 — tragic deaths of Captain Wallace, Lieutenant Mann, wounding of Lieutenants Gurlington, Hawthorne, McKimie and Father Craft.
Depicted on the actual battle ground, with the living personages who cover a half century of the story, ably and mutely, repeating it with realistic vividness, as it then was — thus adding LIFE BLOOD TO ART.
ECHOES FROM PINE RIDGE — REELS OF REAL HISTORY FILMS — NOTED MEN IN NATIONAL NARRATIVE — THE OLD GUARD IN THE SADDLE LED BY THAT DISTINGUISHED CIVIL FRONTIER AND SPANISH WAR BATTLE VETERAN-SOLDIER
Nelson A. Miles
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles (retired) was commander in field in the Ghost Dance war of 1890-91, achieved the surrender at Pine Ridge, and was present and supervised this re-enactment.
MAJOR GENERAL JESSE M. LEE, MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES KING, BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK BALDWIN, BRIGADIER GENERAL MARION P. MAUS, COLONEL H. C. SICKLES (7th U. S. Cavalry in its Campaign now present on the old battlefields), leading and assisting with THE GALLANT 12th U. S. REGULAR CAVALRY.
The Red men following now as then, the teachings of CHIEF SHORT BULL. The MESSIAH MEDICINE MAN with leading warriors of RED CLOUD SIOUX INDIANS, with that FAMOUS FACTOR IN PLAINS' HISTORY, THE LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS, COLONEL W. F. CODY ("BUFFALO BILL"). SIX MILES OF REELS OF REALISTIC PHOTODRAMA, PORTRAYING STIRRING, YET EDIFYING FACTS IN FRONTIER HISTORY TO THE CLOSING CHAPTER in A THREE HUNDRED YEAR COVERING DRAMA — WITH THE FINAL — FOREVER — INDIAN PIPE PEACE CONGRESS of GENERAL MILES, GRAND AMITY COUNCIL, burying the hatchet, smoking the Calumet and CEMENTING ETERNALLY BROTHERLY FRIENDSHIP.
NOTE — The taking of these pictures was by official permission of a Government Commission headed by Secretary of War Garrison, Secretary of the Interior Lane, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, under the guidance of the distinguished film promoters, Mr. Geo. K. Spoor, president Essanay Company, and his producer, Mr. P. O. Wharton.
