[WILD WEST SHOWS]. The Daily Graphic An Illustrated Evening Newspaper. Vol. I, No. 31. New York, April 8, 1873. 8 folio pages on folded sheets, all uncut at top, so all pages are on one large sheet. Each page approximately 533 x 362 mm. One vertical and horizontal creases, front page with large crease at lower right corner, some general edgewear, creasing. On p. 8 is an ad for Scouts of the Prairie, a play starring frontiersmen Ned Buntline (pseudonym for Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr., 1821-1886 - who also wrote it), Texas Jack (pseudonym for John Baker Omohundro, 1846-1880) and Buffalo Bill (pseudonym for William Frederick Cody, 1846-1917). The play was a critical failure, but a commercial success. The ad on p. 8 consists of three engraved portraits of the above men. The play opened in Chicago in December, 1872.