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

Date: April 14, 1896

Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917

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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 24 ch [1]

Sent By V M

Rec'd by B.

Check 23 Paid

Received at Auditorium Hotel Annex 52 op.
4/14 1896 [2]

Dated Ch Philadelphia Pa 14

[To] George T Beck

Auditorium Hotel Annex.

Nagle [3] represented each head family had four hundred cash let him give up his first commission for wagons and collect it from settlers.

W F Cody.

Note 1: Telegram is handwritten by a clerk or William F. Cody 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_0122

Date: April 14, 1896

Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917

Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wyoming

People: Beck, George Washington Thornton, 1856-1943

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