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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/A Cossack. 1896.
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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/A Cossack. 1896.
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PAI-XXXIX: Rare Posters
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Size: 41 3/4 x 28 1/8 in./106 x 71.5 cm
Condition: BSlight tears at folds and edges.
Printer: Courier Litho., Buffalo, NY
Reference: Ref: Buffalo Bill, 41
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/A Cossack. 1896.
This poster is one of the “Courier series depicting the ‘Actual Scenes’ and ‘Genuine Characters’ that made up the Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The portrait of the Cossack is central not only in position but in force; it is beautifully and forcefully delineated. . . . Just as the poster has an educational as well as graphic message, so does the program’s description of the Cossack. It gives much detail about their origin, bloodline, the border fights and other hardships endured by them. ‘These Cossacks, in the picturesque garb of the Caucasus, form the latest acquisition of the Wild West. They are a troop of ‘Cossacks of the Caucasus Line,’ under the command of Prince Soucca . . . On this dangerous frontier (with Turkey) the qualities of horsemanship that made the name of Mazeppa (he was the famed chief of the Zaporogian community, the branch of the Cossack family to which Prince Soucca and his comrades belonged) and his warlike followers household words throughout the whole of Europe, became still further developed in the following generations, so that the Kuban Cossacks quickly became, in many respects, the most remarkable tribes of the Caucasus . . . the most remarkable riders in the world . . . Graduates from this fierce , wild school of saddle and sabre, the Cossacks of the Caucasion line have long enjoyed the reputation of of being the flower of that vast horde of irregular cavalry, the Cossack military colonies, that have been planted along the Southern frontier of the Russian Empire, from the Crimea to the Chinese border to the Pacific” (Buffalo Bill, p. 8).
Size: 41 3/4 x 28 1/8 in./106 x 71.5 cm
Condition: BSlight tears at folds and edges.
Printer: Courier Litho., Buffalo, NY
Reference: Ref: Buffalo Bill, 41
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West/A Cossack. 1896.
This poster is one of the “Courier series depicting the ‘Actual Scenes’ and ‘Genuine Characters’ that made up the Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The portrait of the Cossack is central not only in position but in force; it is beautifully and forcefully delineated. . . . Just as the poster has an educational as well as graphic message, so does the program’s description of the Cossack. It gives much detail about their origin, bloodline, the border fights and other hardships endured by them. ‘These Cossacks, in the picturesque garb of the Caucasus, form the latest acquisition of the Wild West. They are a troop of ‘Cossacks of the Caucasus Line,’ under the command of Prince Soucca . . . On this dangerous frontier (with Turkey) the qualities of horsemanship that made the name of Mazeppa (he was the famed chief of the Zaporogian community, the branch of the Cossack family to which Prince Soucca and his comrades belonged) and his warlike followers household words throughout the whole of Europe, became still further developed in the following generations, so that the Kuban Cossacks quickly became, in many respects, the most remarkable tribes of the Caucasus . . . the most remarkable riders in the world . . . Graduates from this fierce , wild school of saddle and sabre, the Cossacks of the Caucasion line have long enjoyed the reputation of of being the flower of that vast horde of irregular cavalry, the Cossack military colonies, that have been planted along the Southern frontier of the Russian Empire, from the Crimea to the Chinese border to the Pacific” (Buffalo Bill, p. 8).
