Our William in Germany.
STUTTGART, Oct. 14.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to THE BEE.]—Buffalo Bill's Wild West show boom in Germany still continues. All Stuttgart mace a fete of the opening here today, [1] which was attended by the court and many thousand of Wurtembergers, all of whom were delighted with the performance. Genial Major John M. Burko tells the Herald correspondent that the management have punished one Indian by cutting down his rations to three pounds of meet a day and deprived him of ice cream and pudding for months. He was caught translating Tolstoi's Kreutzer Sonata to a squaw. This will probable be cabled to America as an in-instance of the hardships the noble red men are subjected to in Europe.
Buffalo Bill's Wild West performed in Stuttgart, Germany, October 14-19, 1890. [back]
Title: Our William in Germany
Periodical: Omaha Daily Bee
Date: October 15, 1890
Topic: European Tours
Keywords: American Indians Food consumption Indians of North America
People: Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 Burke, John M., 1842-1917
Places: Stuttgart (Germany) Germany
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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