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(WEST.) Buffalo Bill's Wild West: America's National Entertainment, Led by the Famed Scout and Guide. [32] illustrated pages. 4to, 9¾ x 6¾ inches, original chromolithograph wrappers, minimal wear. Hartford, CT: Calhoun Printing Company, circa 1884
Considered the earliest program for Buffalo Bill's Wild West, which launched in the spring of 1883. Begins with a "Salutatory" by General Manager John M. Burke dated North Platte, NE, 1 March 1884: "Hon. William F. Cody ('Buffalo Bill') . . . has organized a large combination that, in its several aspects, will illustrate life as it is witnessed on the plains. . . . The performance, while in no wise partaking of the nature of a circus, will be at once new, startling, and instructive." An unusually fresh copy. None traced at auction since a Swann sale, 29 November 2001, lot 78.
With--"Peck & Fursman's On the Trail, or Dan'l Boone the Pioneer." 16 illustrated pages. 4to, 8¾ x 5¾ inches, original illustrated wrappers; horizontal fold, minimal wear. New York: Samuel Booth, circa 1889.
