Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck, May 27, 1909 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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Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917 Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck May 27, 1909 1 page University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Buffalo Bill: Letters to George T. Beck, 1895-1910 (Acc. #9972) ah031473

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Texts Correspondence Buffalo Bill's Wyoming Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943 Weakly, Laura K. Initial encoding Christianson, Johnston, Houze, Clark Proofreading Boyce, Gary Transcription Adams, Deb Transcription Buffalo Bill's Wild West Combined With Pawnee Bill's Great Far East. Philadelphia1 May 27th / 09 Dear George.

I am feeling better thank you. I have gotten rid of the Bailey Estate.2 Lillie and I now own everything. 70 rail road cars. 170 big draft horses. Elephants cammelscamels in fact the Entire outfit valued at $300,000 of course it will take me a few weeks to pay some money I had to borrow. but six weeks good biz and I am clear. we will take $60,000 here this week. Lillie is a close conservative manager allwaysalways on the job. And it wontwon't be long now until I am on easy avenue again.

The last few years have been hard ones for me but I never weakened— and my good friends have stood by me. And I wontwon't for get them. And one of them is the First National of Cody.3

Put that in your pipe Col Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Combined with Pawnee Bill's Great Far East performed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 24-29, 1909. Note 2: James A. Bailey (1847-1906) died April 11, 1906, but his family retained financial interest in Buffalo Bill's Wild West until Cody and Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill" Lillie bought them out. Note 3: First National of Cody was founded in 1901 by William F. Cody, Hubert H. Hake, Charles E. Hayden, J. W. Chapman, and Benjamin F. Hake.