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During the 1904 season, in the course of the Scottish leg of an extensive British tour,
Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World played a total of twenty-nine venues, appearing in virtually every city and town of any size or significance, from Dumfries in the south to Inverness in the north. Hawick was the first of the 1904 Scottish venues, on the 26th July, and Dumfries was Buffalo Bill's last Scottish venue ever, on the 14th September. Back in 1891-92, the show had only played in Glasgow, but by 1904, Colonel Cody had got the process of 'moving camp' down to a fine art. No doubt the Indians, with their longstanding tradition of a nomadic lifestyle, helped in developing this operation, or at the very least were inspirational to him.
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