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. Col. W. F. Cody. (Buffalo Bill), President. Nate Salsbury. Vice-President & Manager.
of the World.
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John M. Burke. General Manager.
Albert E. Sheible, Business Manager.
Jule Keen, Treasurer.
Muscatine, Ia
[1]
Sep Oct 1st
[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]
Title: Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
Source: University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Buffalo Bill Letters to George T. Beck (Acc. #9972), ah031409-10
Date: October 1, 1896
Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wyoming
People: Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943
Sponsor: Supported in part by a grant from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, a program of the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources.
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