Sunday, July 31, 1904
Following their departure from Dumbarton, a few miles to the west, the first of Buffalo Bill’s special trains steamed into the Caledonian Railway’s Gushetfaulds goods station in Glasgow’s Gorbals district on the south bank of the River Clyde. It was three-thirty in the morning; the remaining trains arrived shortly thereafter and unloading commenced at five. By seven-thirty, the whole impedimenta were in place and breakfast had been served, leaving the company free to enjoy its customary day of rest.
Three weeks after the Glasgow run, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West “advertising brigade,” pictured here, coordinated details for the Wild West’s venue in Ayr, Scotland, “the county town for where we live” says author Cunningham. This image is from the Harrison H. Gunning scrapbook; Gunning was at one time one of the Wild West’s advertising agents. Note attached reads: “The Buffalo Bill advertising brigade. H.H. Gunning on right. A Sunday outing in the land of Burns a trip to his birth place showing his monument & the Bridge of Doon is close by also the cottage where he was born. Ayr Scotland Sunday August 27 1904.”’
Source: Points West Online: Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 1