El Buscaderos-Cowboy Action Shooting-Feature

1. OVERTURE, “Star Spangled Banner”,. . . .Cowboy Band, Wm. Sweeney, Leader

2. GRAND REVIEW, introducing the ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD – Indians, Cowboys, Mexicans, Cossacks, Arabs, Scots, Guides and detachments of fully equipped Regular Soldiers of the Armies of America, England, Germany and Russia.
Detachments from the contending forces in South Africa( wounded and invalided veterans); Canadian Mounted Rifles; Commando of Transvaal Boers; Canadian Strathcona Rifles (Mounted Police), and a band of Baden-Powell’s Defenders of Mafeking.

3. MISS ANNIE OAKLEY, Celebrated shot, who will illustrate her dexterity in the use of firearms.

4. RACE OF RACES. Race between a Cowboy, a Cossack, a Mexican, an Arab, a Gaucho and an Indian, on Spanish-Mexican, Bronco, Russian, Indian and Arabian horses.

5. U.S. ARTILLERY DRILL, by veterans from Capt. Thorpe”s Battery D, Fifth Regiment, U.S. Artillery

6. ILLUSTRATING A COW OUTFIT STARTING ON ITS ANNUAL ROUND-UP, CROSSING THE PLAINS, and while camping is attacked by marauding Indians who are repulsed by “ Buffalo Bill” and a number of cowboys.

7. PONY EXPRESS. A former Pony Express Rider will show how letters and telegrams of the Republic were distributed across our Continent previous to the building of railways and telegraph.

8.A GROUP OF MEXICANS From Old Mexico will illustrate the use of the lasso and perform various feats of horsemanship.

9. JOHNNY BAKER, Celebrated American Marksman.

10. A GROUP OF RIFFIAN ARAB HORSEMEN will illustrate their style of horsemanship together with native sports and pastimes.

11. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE DRILL .Illustrating the method of saving lives when a vessel is wrecked. This Drill will be executed by a full crew of veteran members of the Life-Saving Service of the United States from the station on the New Jersey coast. Every man of this crew has a record for skill and daring in his hazardous profession.

12. COSSACKS, from the Caucasus of Russia, in feats of horsemanship, native dances, etc.

13. INDIAN BOY RACE

14. COWBOY FUN. Picking objects from the ground, lassoing wild horses, riding the buckers, etc.

15.INDIANS from the Sioux, Arrapahoe, Brule’ and Cheyenne tribes will illustrate the Indian mode of fighting, war dances and games.

16.VETERANS FROM THE SIXTH U.S.CALVARY in military exercises and an exhibition of athletic sports and horsemanship.
Note The men will wear the uniforms adopted by the U.S. Army on the frontier. The horses are Western range horses, used in this manner for the first time in history. The Army and the National Guard use the “American” horse.

17. HOLD-UP OF THE DEADWOOD STAGE COACH. Being an exact reproduction of an event in the history of this identical coach.

18. THREE MINUTES WITH THE ROUGH RIDERS OF THE WORLD.

19. COL. W. F. CODY( Buffalo Bill) in his unique feats of sharp-shooting while riding at full speed.

20.BUFFALO HUNT, as it was in the Far West of North America, by “Buffalo Bill” and the Indians, exhibiting the last of the only known herd of buffalo.

21. THE BATTLE OF TIEN-TSIN. This episode introduces detachments from the allied armies of the world. The mise en sc’ene is correct in every particular, and is carried out with strict fidelity to the subject….

Curtain
A Cowboy in Dodge City, 1882