Title: Telegram from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
Date: April 14, 1896
Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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The Western Union Telegraph Company.
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21,000 Offices In America. Cable Service To All The World. /This Company Transmits and Delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.
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Number 23 ch [1]
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37 Paid
Received at Auditorium Hotel Annex.
517 P. 4/14 1896
Dated Ch Philadelphia Pa 14 [2]
To Geo T Beck
Cannot understand either yours or Nagles
[3] telegram nagle had no agreement with me about starting store & yesterday wired would load today fearful blunder some place we cannot buy wagons for Colony wish
you would please write
W F Cody.
Note 1: Telegram is handwritten by a clerk or WFC assignee. [back]
Note 2: Buffalo Bill's Wild West was in preparation for the opening of the 1896 season in Philadelphia on April 18th. [back]
Note 3: S. V. Nagle, an associate of the firm of F. A. Nagle Commission Merchants of Chicago, attempted to recruit settlers to the lands that were to be irrigated by the Cody Canal. [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_0120
Date: April 14, 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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