| Title | Under the patronage of Royalty and the Marquis & Marchioness of Bute |
| Call Number | NS-226 |
| Summary | William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody stands in front of the Deadwood Stagecoach, which was used in an act of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Cody wears thigh boots and a buckskin coat decorated with beaded flowers and tassles. He holds a long whip in his right hand. John Y. Nelson, a scout and driver of the coach, sits on top of the coach holding his rifle propped up in his right hand. Several men wearing derby hats sit inside the coach. Additional men stand behind the coach in the background. The coach was built by the Abbot-Downing Co. in 1863 and shipped, on February 18, 1864, from Boston in the clipper ship General Grant' to Louis McLane of San Francisco. Mr. McLane was president of the Pioneer Stage Co.,' of California. This was one of thirty-two similar coaches shipped to him round the horn' in 1863-64. It travelled across the ocean with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, visiting all the principal cities in Europe; across the Mediterranean Sea twice, and then to Concord, N.H., where it was built. It was exhibited by the Wild West Show, July 4, 1895. |
| Date | [between 1885 and 1900?] |
| Collection | Salsbury collection, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show |
| Notes | Title typed on photoprint. |
| "The Deadwood Stage Coach from Buffalo Bill's Wild West in London in 1887 - From the collection of Nate Salsbury, owner and manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West - Given by the family of Nate Salsbury" handwritten on back of print. | |
| Faces on people in image have been retouched. | |
| Vintage photographic print. | |
| "The Concord' Deadwood mail and passenger stagecoach ran between Deadwood and Cheyenne, carrying passengers and mail acquired in 1887 or 8 by Cody - On top John Nelson, squawman and stagecoach driver. Buffalo Bill standing. Coach now in Smithsonian Institute? Nelson's right shoulder had been dislocated and kept coming out of joint. To prevent this when using his whip when driving 6 mules he had a strap around his elbow so he could not raise his arm above a certain point" handwritten on back of print. | |
| Image also identified as "F9620." | |
| Photo Materials | 1 photoprint ; 31 x 24 cm. (12 x 9 1/2 in.) on mat 38 x 31 cm. (15 x 12 in.) |
| 1 copy photonegative ; 17 x 12 cm. (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.) | |
| Condition | Edges of mat are deteriorating. |
| Copyright | Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library. |
| See Also | Nelson, John Young, b. 1826. |
| Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. | |
| Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. | |
| Stagecoaches 1880-1890. | |
| Wild west shows 1880-1920. | |
| Salsbury, Nate, 1846-1902. | |
| Imaged. | |
| Film negatives. | |
| Photographic prints. | |
| URL | http://gowest.coalliance.org/cgi-bin/imager?00105226+NS-226 |