October 4, 1905. Buffalo Bill arrives!

Today, Brigitte Bardot would not fail to trail it in justice to have been a large massacror of animals. But at the time, it is an alive legend. And to see arriving an alive legend in its city, it is nothing. Return amounts: for 1,65 francs (sitted places second series, the children below 10 years pay half price) one can see Buffalo Bill in person, with horse, goatee with the wind, Colt in hand, morning at 14. 30 and the evening at 20. 30. For 8,80 francs (reserved cabin) to say as much that one can touch the boots to him. And where that? At the end of the Rabateau boulevard, on vast grounds belonging to the company of the P.L.M.

It is not alone, famous " Colonel William Frederic Cody " in his marvellous exhibition of shooting assembled on a horse launched au.galop: hundred American Indians (sic!) heads, warriors, women and children accompany it, as well as an immense troop of riders come from the whole ground: caucasiens, Russian, African, Cubans, Mexicans, Arabic, zouaves, cow servant boys, of course, as well as a Japanese imperial troop. Nothing misses with this immense bazaar in Barnum: not even a great race of tandem, scenes of carnage and war, like in apotheosis the reconstitution of the famous battle of Little Big Horn where the Custer General paid his life his silly thing and its entêtement vis-a-vis in Sitting Bull.

You recognized all Buffalo Bill' S Wild West Show and Congres of Rough Riders, which already traversed 63 000 miles, from Prairie to Palace, from Missouri to the the Danube.

Eh well, here they are in Marseilles! Complete 700 people. The largest company of advertising bluff is there. And the Marseilles gogos, like the others (the Victoria Queen let herself there take), come to fill the cases of the impostor, whose title of glory-to which it owes its nickname will have been to do the work without risks for which the American railroad companies (which are connecting East coast to western dimension) paid it, for fabulous épopée. It supplied out of fresh meat them building sites, which enabled him to massacre per thousands of peaceful herds of bisons.

William F Cody, young scout, conceited like a pretty woman, said one in the west, is an invented creature of all parts by an astute journalist, named Ned Buntline, who in 1869, full civil war, collected the most incredible accounts, the stories hawked by the pillars of saloons, the enjolivés accounts of the trappers and all the hâbleurs whose west was prodigal, to tell them with the readers of the New York Weekly, while plagiarizing without shame Fenimore Cooper.

In 1882, Buffalo Bill, become businessman warned, decides to give mythical West a spectacle to its measurement. The Greatest in the world, naturally.

The Circus came the first time 29 Novembre 1889 (arrival at 5. 21 in station of Prado) and its last spectacle gave on December 6 of the same year before to go to Spain. It is on this date that " Feather Man " was allowed at the hospital of the Design where it was to die on January 6, 1890 at 4 o'clock in the Morning. It was buried the 7 with the Cemetery of St Pierre, square n° 8, Tranchée 19, Piquet n° 2. Nobody not having claimed his body, its remainders were put in common grave.

October 30, 1905, Wild West Show was back in Marseilles and was installed on a ground property of the railroad of the PLM located at the angle of the Rabateau Boulevard and Main road of Toulon, the spectacles stopped on November 10 and the majority of the troop wintered in Marseilles until March 4, goes back to resumption of the spectacles. The circus left Marseilles 6 the Mars 1906.