Title: Letter from William F. Cody to George T. Beck

Date: April 30, 1899

Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West

Nashville Tenn [1]
Apr 30th 99

My Dear Beck

Please let me know how you are getting on with ditch. When do you expect to have water to town [2] . How are you makeing it with Darrah? Say if the rest of the Company dont put up to pay interest on Hearst loan [3] — What had best be done?

Love to Bettie [4]

Your friend

Cody

Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 1, 1899. [back]

Note 2: Cody, Wyoming. [back]

Note 3: In 1897 Beck traveled to Washington, D.C., and called on Phoebe Hearst, wife of California senator and Comstock Lode magnet George Hearst. On behalf of Shoshone Irrigation Company Beck managed to sell the Hearsts an indemnity bond of $30,000 for the irrigation project; repayment was to be made over five years at 7-1/2% interest. [back]

Note 4: "Bettie" is Beck's infant daughter, Betty, born in 1898. [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, 1895-1910 (Acc. #9972), ah031441

Date: April 30, 1899

Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917

Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wyoming

People: Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943 Darrah, Hudson W., 1864-1929

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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