Title: Telegram from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
Date: April 6, 1896
Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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321 P.M. April 6 1896 [1]
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Buffalo N.Y. 6
Dated
To Geo. T. Beck,
Sheridan Wyo.
Arranging funds have you filed placer claims [2] where is Mead answer quick leaving for New York. [3]
W.F.Cody.
Note 1: Buffalo Bill's Wild West occupied its winter quarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from November 3, 1895, through mid-April 1896, before their opening in Philadelphia on April 18, 1896. [back]
Note 2: Occasionally Cody asked Beck to file claims for him on mining and oil interests. [back]
Note 3: Cody would head to New York and then to Philadelphia for the opening of the 1896 season on April 18, 1896. [back]
Title: Telegram from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
Source: University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center, Beck Family Papers, 1858-1992 (bulk 1884-1919); Acc. #10386, ah10386_0107
Date: April 6, 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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