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Show MONUMENT TO BUFFALO BILL When G. L. Becker appear? at the ; Wild Weal Show in Opden. to give an exhibition of hie line marksmanship lie Impersonates "Buffalo Bill," the fa j mous scout and rifleman This is a tribute to the heroic past of western j Am erica. v Recently an appropriation was made! lor a memorial to "Buffalo Bill," and; mi recording the fact the New York Times says: Vhen Colonel William F. Cody, bet j . i known to millions both in Europe and in America as "Buffalo Bill," died in 1917 ho was buried on Lookout j mountain, which overlooks the wonderful won-derful valley he loved best of "the Croat West that was." The tribute.-, to the scout, plainsman. Indian ficht j CI, tlVll Vi lli rElClOU .inn llvl VI ' plains came at his death irom all parts of the world Tin Btatt he may b" said to have won for the i"nin voted an appropriation for a suit, '.: in iikh lal. It is designed to be worthy of the hero of American boyhood, it Is to be elected at t ody, Wyo., at the astern entrance to the Yellowstone park Standing at the gateway of the further west, it will be a monument to one of the "builders oi empire." In the Hotel Irma, at Cody, built by Buffalo Bill, are collected varied mementoes of his life, carefully preserved pre-served by his widow. It was in St Louis that Buffalo Bill, then a younR man, riding along the streets, came across a number of school girls who were being teased and annoyed by some soldiers. Colonel Cody ordered them to desist, and as they jeered at J him he sprang from his horse and in a few minutes three of the bullies were stretched on the street. All the pirls. except one terrified and timid little French girl, ran away The stalwart stal-wart horesman escorted her to her home, and, as in all good story books, ihat was the beginning of his life romance, ro-mance, as this little girl afterward be-, oamo his wife. Now grown old, her chief ambition is to see erected the monument to her husband. Like him. she is an enthusiast as to the Great WesL To an interviewer she 6aid recently, re-cently, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger: "When I think ol what may happen In the next space of years, i find myself my-self painting a wonderful picture of what is to be. Look ahead for a period j equal to the time that has elapsed l since Colonel Cody blazed the way j s ith other pioneers; toniernplale, ifi ou can, what will happen out our way in the next half a- century. I I -hould love to live to see it." |