TELEGRAM SEXT TO THE GOVEEXOR OF 

 COLORADO 



New York, N. Y., January 13, 1917. 

 To His Excellency, 



The Governor of Colorado, 

 Denver, Colorado. 



At the annual meeting of the American Bison Society, 

 organized for the preservation of the American Bison, held 

 here yesterday, the following resolution was passed and 

 ordered recorded in the minutes of the society. Will the 

 Governor kindly transmit this resolution to the custody of 

 either the Denver Masonic or Denver Elks Lodge, whichever 

 is in charge of Colonel Cody's funeral. 



"RESOLVED, That in the recent death of Colonel Wil- 

 liaui F. Cody, familiarly known throughout his life as "Buf- 

 falo Bill," the country has suffered the loss of one of the last 

 and by far the most distinguished survivors of the early Path- 

 finders, Pioneers, and Army Scouts of the late sixties and 

 early seventies. Col. Cody needs no eulogy from this Society. 

 His early history is a part of American history dealing wdth 

 fhe paciheation of the hostile Indians and the settlement of 

 the trans-Missouri plains, while his later history will persist 

 indelibly from the sheer credit due him of having through 

 forty years done more than any other one individual to make 

 known to the younger generation of his own country and 

 of Europe the types of individuals and of incidents most 

 I'lghly cluiracteristic of the period that has been designated 

 "The Heroic Days of the Far West." 



This Society mourns his loss and l)egs to extend its con- 

 dolence fo all to whom he was near and dear. 



THE AMERICAN BISON SOCIETY, 



Edmund Seymour, President. 

 Edgar Beecher Bronson, Secretary. 



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