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68 pp, Photo portrait on title page of William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill; folding map of the United States affixed to front endpaper. (narrow 12mo) 15.5x7 cm (6¼x2¾"), modern black pigskin, new endpapers.

Rare route book evidently produced primarily for in-house use for the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, listing the many staff members, from band members and show participants to ushers and ticket sellers (it was quite a production), along with the program of activities for the show, printed summaries of the shows from April through August of 1899, with blank spaces for notes on the shows from September to mid-October, when the season ends. Following are the routes followed from 1895 through 1898 and scheduled for 1899. With the calling card of Buffalo Bill show manager Fred Bailey Hutchinson, Denver, laid in. The map, which is dated 1895, was published by the Matthews-Northrup Co., as this booklet, but is not mentioned in the OCLC/WorldCat listing, which locates three copies, at Yale, the Autry Museum, and SMU.