April 13, 1873—Easter—was the last night of The Scouts of the Prairie's long run at Niblo's Garden on Broadway in New York City. Newspapers announced that the show would play for two nights in Brooklyn at the Academy of Music before continuing their whirlwind tour throughout the northeast.
An advertisement for one of those Brooklyn shows gives us a hint as to what theatergoers witnessed when they went to see the "living heroes" of Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, and Ned Buntline, along with the Peerless Morlacchi.
GREATEST ATTRACTION ON EARTH,
THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE
Introducing the Original Western Heroes,
BUFFALO BILL, TEXAS JACK
NED BUNTLINE
The peerless danseuse, Mlle. Morlacchi.
Twenty Indian Warriors.
THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE
Buffalo Bill, by the original hero...Hon Wm. F. Cody
Texas Jack, by the original hero...J. B. Omohundro
Cale Durg...Ned Buntline
Dove Eye...Mlle. Morlacchi
Synopsis.
ACT I—On The Plains—Trapper and the Scouts—The Renegade's Camp—Peril of Hazel Eye—Ned Buntline's Temperance Lecture—Cale Durg at the Torture Post—The Indian Dance—The Rescue.
ACT II—Texas Jack and his Lasso—The Loves of Buffalo Bill—The Death of Cale Durg—The Trapper's Last Shot
ACT III—The Scout's Oath of Vengeance—The Scalp Dance—The Knife Fight—The Triumph of the Scouts—The Prairie on Fire