The Anderson Daily Intelligencer

WILD WESTERN SHOW PLEASED LOCAL FOLK

101 RANCH WAS HERE TUES. DAY GOOD ATTRACTION

Anderson People Saw Many Strange Scenes Brought From Great Distance.

"Aw. them ain't Indians!" vouched the small boy, probably a Boy Scout as Chief Iron-Tail and the rest of the Indians went by in the parade yesterday morning.

"O they is too-" said the other deprecatingly. "I guess I orter know, look-it-'em, they paint but they's got another color on the arms and han's."

Well the last boy seems to have been right for they were certainly Indians, from the 101 Ranch out in Oklahoma and many who can remember "Buffalo Bill" and "Pawnee Bill" saw a show that was equally as emblematic of the west 50 years ago as when those men made the west famous. Those who have seen the west in later years, know that cowboys don't wear red handkerchiefs about their necks; but to the small boy a gun and a red handkerchief is just as necessary to typify the West as is the Bison and the Indian.

The performance was exceptionally good, to those not suffering with toothache or any minor ills of like nature, for there was some remarkable riding, lasso work and a little fancy shooting that was worth the price.

There was one fact that was brought out plain enough for everyone to see, and that was that the American cowboy can outride the Indian and the Cossack. Those who have seen the older wild west shows know this to be true also. The cowboys with their lariats and their riding in the show yesterday afternoon, presented a real picturesque sight and one which could not fail to please as it was par excellence, good riding.

When the stage coach, with the "oldest living guard" on duty came around and the bandits held it up, there was excitement enough to make several babies cry and mothers bend over and tell them that it was all in fun. The horses were better actors than the men for they fell over dead for fair and lay there until the word of command came for them to get up and get away.

When the old prairie schooner pitched camp and the cowboys started in to cook a "Texas Son-of-a-gun," the Indians swarmed down en masse and there was a regular pitched battle like the Mexicans have, with about as many killed on each side.

The red-skins set fire to the top of the old schooner and burned the top off it. Them was stirrin' times.

Oh! the Boy Scouts were in their glory, for there were Indians, real live Indians, cowboys and cowgirls and everything else that fires the youthful imagination and makes him long for the time when he shall don his "long-ones" and march forth

Times ain't what they used to be and there are no more wild wests to conquer, so its a pretty good idea, it would seem to keep alive the pioneer day as the 101 Ranch does.

It was claimed that the Indian whose profile adorns those coins the "Buffalo nickel" and the bison on the reverse side were with the show, at least both were introduced as such and they looked like they were the right parties, since the bankers say the Buffalo Nickel won't "stack."

The show earned its money, and it played to two full houses, or rather tents and the performance will be welcomed this way again.