Title: Untitled [Letter to Mr. B. Goodall]
Periodical: The Umpire
Date: April 22, 1888
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The challenge we published last week, in which a gentleman named Goodall wished to contest ten miles on the racecourse with English horses against Buffalo Bill's ponies, has met with a response. We have received the following from Buffalo Bill:—
Wild West Camp, Manchester,
April 21, 1888.
Mr. B. Goodall.
Dear Sir,—Having succeeded, through the kindness of Mr. Mark Price and the racecourse authorities, in securing the grounds for the proposed race between your English-bred horses and my American ponies, I accept your proposition. The terms the same as you suggested—namely, for £200, the same number of horses for a ten mile contest—riders to change every half-mile. While my ponies are the ordinary cattle ponies of the Far West, I think the experiment will be one of great interest.—I am, respectfully yours,
W. F. CODY (Buffalo Bill),
Title: Untitled [Letter to Mr. B. Goodall]
Periodical: The Umpire
Source: McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West , MS6.3679.19.03 (Stroebel scrapbook)
Date: April 22, 1888
Topic: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Britain
Keywords: Horse racing Horses Long-distance relay races Ponies Racetracks (Horse racing) Thoroughbred horse Western horses
Place: Manchester (England)
Sponsor: This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Geraldine W. & Robert J. Dellenback Foundation.
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