Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck, [October 27, 1895] Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917 Johnston, Jeremy Christianson, Frank Seefeldt, Douglas, 1964- Supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. 2013 William F. Cody Archive University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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BBWW performed in Atlanta, Georgia, October 28-November 2, 1895. Sunday, October 27, 1895, would not have been a performance day. Horace C. Alger (1857-1906) was a banker from Sheridan, Wyoming, mayor of Sheridan in 1889, and a candidate for Governor of Wyoming in 1898. Cody, Beck, and Alger were responsible for developing the Shoshone Irrigation Company. "B. & S." likely refers to Bleistein and Salsbury. Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917 Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck [October 27, 1895] 2 pages University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Buffalo Bill Letters to George T. Beck (Acc. #9972) ah031311-12

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Texts Correspondence Buffalo Bill's Wyoming Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943 Alger, Horace Chapin, 1857-1906 Bleistein, George, 1861-1918 Salsbury, Nathan, 1846-1902 Shoshone Irrigation District (Wyo.) Weakly, Laura K. Added annotation Weakly, Laura K. Initial encoding Clark, Linda Proofing Boyce, Gary Transcription Adams, Deb Transcription

The Buffalo Bill Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.

Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), President.Nate Salsbury, Vice-Pres't and Manager.John M. Burke, . . . General Manager.Albert E. Scheible, . . . Business Manager.Jule Keen, . . . Treasurer. Sunday morning nearing Atlanta— on train—1 My Dear George

I wrote you last night. Since then I have put in a bad night looking over your letter. You say 62 teams & a 103 men will cost up to Dec. 1st from Oct 21 will cost 8.910. if it does they are makeingmaking big wages I tell you. I figure they work 30 days in that time. 62 teams and men at $300 a day for team & man and 1.50 a day for 40 men extra is 7 $7,380. I have no idea what your flumes will cost.

Alger was with you about the time you wrote this letter His letter & yours so wide apart Did you & he talk it over together. If not what did he go up there for? George I dontdon't see how I can carry this unexpected

The Buffalo Bill Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.

Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), President.Nate Salsbury, Vice-Pres't and Manager.John M. Burke, . . . General Manager.Albert E. Scheible, . . . Business Manager.Jule Keen, . . . Treasurer. raise in the estimates & I will not ask B. & S.2 to help me— So let no more contracts. I will in some way keep your credit good— so you can let contractors fill their present work you have let them have. But tell them we will do no more this winter You say you are paying 7c a yard for mooveingmoving loose dirt. I can moovemove loose dirt with a grader for 3c a yard sure. When our own men are not on the job and not at work do you pay them?

George you bet I am heep sick—

Bill

PS. What have you found out about Town site3 And men fileingfiling homesteads under our ditch

 Note 1: "Sunday morning nearing Atlanta- on train" as inscribed by Cody, was Sunday, October 27, 1895, the travel day prior to opening in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 28 where BBWW performed until November 2, 1895, during the run of The Cotton States and International Exposition, also known as the Atlanta Exposition. Note 2: "B. & S." refers to George Bleistein and Nate Salsbury, two of the primary investors in the canal. Note 3: Cody, Wyoming.