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National Geographic : 1981 Jul
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plowed right through the window of Camp bell's Drug Store. "When they dragged me out of the per fume bottles, I was decorating the landscape with spouting blood. This giant of a man with a white goatee boomed, 'That was a pretty good ride you made, young fella ... as long as it lasted.' "He gave me this card and told me to send to Johnny Baker for a contract and he'd see me next spring in the show. " 'Show?' I asked him. 'What show?' "He let out a war whoop, 'Whose show do Chaos of Indian wars of the 1860s was brought by the Wild West to towns across the U. S., Canada, and Europefrom 1883 until 1913. Here in Omaha in 1908 riders in cavalry dressand Cody in buckskins res cue white captives in a reenactmentof the Battle of Summit Springs. In anotheract, Arabs, gauchos, vaqueros, Cossacks, cow boys, and Indians demonstrated varied riding styles. Cody called them the Con gress of Rough Riders of the World, a name adapted by hisfriend Theodore Roosevelt. 79 WYOMINGSTATEARCHIVES, MUSEUMSANDHISTORICALDEPARTMENT,CHEYENNE
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