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

Date: September 12, 1902

Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West

My Dear Beck.

Wired you to contract east end immediately get work started. Write each stock holder fully— telling them what the money will be used for— then later the contract can be let for upper end— You have r dried lumber for flumes long ago as we talked that over— the timber & lumber must be gotten this fall ready— Assess each of us to do the east end & pay contractors now then later make another assessment for upper end—

How does the prospects look for the Governorship [3] ?

Kind regards and success attend you—

W. F. Cody

Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in San Francisco, California, September 7-14, 1902. [back]

Note 2: Cody inscribes September 12th / 02, though the year as written looks more like 1912. [back]

Note 3: Beck was running for governor of Wyoming as a Democrat in the 1902 election; he lost the election to the incumbent Republican governor, DeForest Richards, who, incidentally, had defeated Horace C. Alger in the 1898 election. [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), ah031464

Date: September 12, 1902

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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