Archive
Listed below are all of the documents selected for this project. They represent a small sampling of each category, but were the documents used in making the argument. For all of the documents in a particular category see the sidebar to the left and visit each link.
Press Coverage
Chicago Daily Tribune, "Close of the 'Wild West' Season," 29 October 1893.
New York Times, "World's Riders with Buffalo Bill," 2 May 1894.
New York Times, "Rough Riders of the World," 6 May 1894.
New York Times, "Life at the Wild West Show," 9 June 1894.
New York Times, "Buffalo Bill and His Riders," 1 July 1894.
Philadelphia North American, "SCENES FROM THE WILD WEST. Buffalo Bill and His Band of Rough Riders Continue to Draw Great Crowds," 26 April 1895.
New York Times, "Crowds at the Wild West," 4 May 1897.
Boston Daily Advertiser, "BUFFALO BILL and His Riders take Boston by Storm — The Exhibition," 25 May 1897.
New York American, "Buffalo Bill is Ready to Flay Spain," 16 March 1898.
New York American, "Cuban Cavalry Tactics," 26 March 1898.
World, "BUFFALO BILL writes on 'HOW I COULD DRIVE SPANIARDS FROM CUBA WITH 30,000 INDIAN BRAVES'," 3 April 1898.
Washington Post, "FAME OF BUFFALO BILL: An American Whose Name is Familiar All Over the World," 29 April 1898.
Philadelphia North American, "Cody Here Next Week," 30 April 1898.
Washington Post, "Review of Rough Riders," 1 May 1898.
Philadelphia Inquirer, "Cuba's Wounded Heroes," 2 May 1898.
Philadelphia North American, "THE WILD WEST SHOW," 4 May 1898.
Dallas Morning News, "Rough Riders Assembling," 12 May 1898.
Dallas Morning News, "ROOSEVELT'S ROUGH RIDERS," 15 May 1898.
Boston Daily Advertiser, "BUFFALO BILL and His Congress of Rough Riders Again in Boston," 30 May 1898.
Omaha World Herald, "BUFFALO BILL'S RETURN, His Wild West Show Attracted a Great Company of Spectators," 6 June 1898.
Bismarck (ND) Daily Tribune, "State News," 11 June 1898.
Los Angeles Times, "TALK WITH BUFFALO BILL," 3 October 1898.
New York Times, "BUFFALO BILL'S STREET PARADE," 27 March 1899.
New York Times, "WILD WEST SHOW OPENS," 30 March 1899.
Washington Post, "CHARGE UP SAN JUAN HILL," 11 April 1899.
Washington Post, "THE CHARGE UP SAN JUAN HILL," 16 April 1899.
Washington Post, "WARRIORS OF ALL NATIONS," 17 April 1899.
Boston Daily Advertiser, "Rough Riders Play a San Juan Spectacle in Wild West Show," 13 June 1899.
Milwaukee Journal, "HEROIC HORSEMANSHIP," 26 August 1899.
Bismarck (ND) Daily Tribune, Untitled, 6 September 1899.
Emporia (KS) Daily Gazette, "Buffalo Bill's Review of Representative Rough Riders of the World," 13 September 1899.
New York Times, "WILD WEST IN THE ARENA," 24 April 1900.
The Metropolitan Magazine, "Riders of the World," August 1900.
New York Times, "BUFFALO BILL'S WILD WEST SHOW," 3 April 1901.
New York Times, "Wants Rough Riders' School at Cody," 15 April 1901.
New York Times, "BREAKING WILD HORSES," 17 April 1902.
Washington Post, ORIGIN OF "ROUGH RIDER," 21 December 1902.
Los Angeles Times, "Roughriders of 1898 Gather," 25 June 1941
Obituary for Thomas Isbell, Craig County Democrat, 17 November 1955.
Las Vegas (NM) Optic, "City Prepares for Festivities: One Rough Riders Survivor is due," 21 June 1967
Alpha News, "Jesse's Lonely 'Reunion' Sparks Many Memories," 29 June 1967.
Las Vegas (NM) Optic, "Cubans Remember too," 3 July 1967
Denver Post, "First Meeting with Teddy Recalled by Rough Rider," 3 July 1967
"BILL MCGINTY WINS HIS BET", Newsclipping (Undated) from the Rough Rider Archive
"2 Roughriders Are Reunited After 30 Years", Newsclipping (Undated) from the Rough Rider Archive
"T.R." Rough Riders at Reunion", Newsclipping (Undated) from the Rough Rider Archive
"THE ROUGH RIDERS RECALL MANY HILARIOUS TALES OF YORE", Albuquerque Tribune, Newsclipping (Undated) from the Rough Rider Archive
"Last of the Rough Riders"Article in VFW Magazine, (Undated) from the Rough Rider Archive
Promotional Materials
1893 Official Program, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.
1894 Official Program, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.
1898 Courier Program, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.
1899 Official Program, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.
1900 Official Program, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.
1901 Official Program, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.
The Rough Rider, Illustrated Periodical, Volume I, 1st Edition. Season of 1899.
The Rough Rider, Illustrated Periodical, Volume III, 4th Edition. Season of 1901.
The Rough Rider, Illustrated Periodical, Volume V, 9th Edition. Season of 1908.
Correspondence
John Addison Porter to William F. Cody, 19 April 1897
Theodore Roosevelt to William F. Cody, 22 March 1899
George B. Cortelyou (acting secretary to the President) to William F. Cody, 16 April 1900
Theodore Roosevelt to William F. Cody, 14 March 1903
Theodore Roosevelt to William F. Cody, 22 June 1903
Theodore Roosevelt to William F. Cody, 11 March 1905
Theodore Roosevelt to William F. Cody, 16 February 1906
Theodore Roosevelt to Billy McGinty, 1 May 1906
William F. Cody to Hugh L. Scott, 26 February 1916.
C.D. Scott to to R.W. Denny, November 1947
Jesse Langdon to the editors of Life Magazine, 9 September 1952.
Reminiscences
"A War Story" by Billy McGinty, no date
1900 Route Book by Billy McGinty
Reminisence on his War experience, by James T. Brown, 5 September 1952
Oral History, Tape Recording dictated by James T. Brown, January 1955
Images
"15 Roosevelt Rough Riders who played with Buffalo Bill," from The Rough Rider Archive, City of Las Vegas Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 61.1.177
"Stay with 'Im," from The Rough Rider Archive, City of Las Vegas Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 108.8.28.
"Cavalry of All Nations with 'Buffalo Bill' Leading Them." Image adapted from page 49, 1897 Official Program. McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, MS6.6.A.1.14.
"Wild Rivalries of Savage, Barbarous, and Civilized Races," Image adapted page 31 from 1898 Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Courier Program. McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, MS6.6.A.2.1.
"Men Who Have Led the Rough Riders of the World in Civic and Military Conquests" included are (from left to right) Colonel W.F. Cody, Lt.-Col. R.S.S. Baden-Powell, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, and General Petrus Joubert. Image from page 2, The Rough Rider Illustrated Periodical, Volume 3, 4th Edition, Season of 1901.
"Cody Saves Wild Bill," image from page 14, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Official Program 1901. McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, MS6.6.A.2.3
"The Easy Position of a Man who Virtually Lives in the Saddle," Image from Metropolitan Magazine August 1900, page 164.
Arabs, Image courtesy 1901 Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Official Program, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, MS6.6.A.2.3.
Boers, Image courtesy 1901 Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Official Program, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, MS6.6.A.2.3.
Cubans, Promotional poster from the 1898 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LC-USZC4-2943.
Arabs, Promotional poster from the 1899 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LC-USZC4-3169.
Cossacks, Promotional poster from the 1899 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LC-USZC4-3170.
Cowboys, Promotional poster from the 1899 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LC-USZC4-1479.
Gauchos, Promotional poster from the 1899 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LC-USZC4-1499.
American Indians, Promotional Poster from the 1899 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LOC LC-DIG-PPMSCA-13514.
Mexican Vaqueros, Promotional Poster from the 1899 season. Image courtesy Library of Congress, American Memory, LOC LC-USZC4-1054.
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