Setting off for an adventure in the sunshine hoping to make new friends. Imagery from the official “Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896.” Buffalo Bill and Company toured North America and the rest of the world for decades, playing Madison Square Garden on multiple occasions.

Front cover. Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9795

Colonel W. F. Cody “Buffalo Bill.” Page 2 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9802

Royal Irish Lancers. Page 15 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9815

Ticket Sellers. Page 27 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9827

Buffalo Bill’s Great Annex. Page 96 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9896

Johnny Baker and Annie Oakley. (Johnny Baker was just a friend. Annie Oakley was married to someone else). Page 141 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9941

Cowboys. Page 145 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9945

Season of 1896 with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Schafer and Clark, the Eccentric German Musical Comedians in a twenty-minute German comedy musical act – – – An up-to-date :Laughing Success and a positive departure from the old stereotyped style of Musical Arts. Page 155 of Official Souvenir Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896. M. B. Bailey, editor. Compiled and published by Charles R. Hutchinson. Courier Company, Buffalo, New York, printers. Special Collections, Milner Library, Illinois State University. In the public domain. https://digital.library.illinoisstate.edu/digital/collection/p15990coll5/id/9955

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