The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-06-07
Bill Nye Talks About Cowboys.


would seem to indicate that the com.
ing year will witness a hegira Of
armed goslins from England who
intend to prosecute the COW gentle
man and Deadwood stage robbing
business on the frontier. It is per-
haps unnecessary to state that Buf-
falo Bill, the graceful and courteous
hirsuit wonder from Nebraska, is
largely responsible for this, Where
ever he has gone with his eccentric,
dark red, self-made Indians and his
speckled broncos he has sown seeds
of discomfort in grammar schools
and bred open rebellion and mutiny
in the primary department.
Looking along the red-hot trail of
B. William and you find the Amer
lean and foreign youth alike turn
ing with undisguised loathing from
his educational pursuits to immerse
his legs in a pair Of shaperajos, to
! WELD the brief but startling quirt,
to whoop up the redeyed, naughty
and high-trailed Texas maverick, or
| to shoot large irregular holes into
the otherwise poorly ventilated saw
age.
Gentle reader, we stand upon the
crumbling brink Of a great cowboy
eruption from England, Ireland,
and Scotland, the continent of the
great orient itself. | did not think
that Buffalo Bill had any idea when
he started in to rehearse his great
society drama and horse play, that
it would so soon disturb interna-
tional relations and throng our cac-
tus forest and grease-wood vine
yards with Juvenile. cowboys from
Greenland's icy mountains and In
dia's corral strands. If he had he
would have hesitated about it. Now,
alas ! it is too late. He is billed for
the Coliseum, and already people
from Lyrsilla and the citron grove
J of Lawrence county are coming in
to town, bringing their dinners and
hitching their teams to the fence be-
hind the Coliseum.
Hard, blue preserved seats l am
told are being erected around the
amphiteatre, and the Roman school
is closed. Everything points to-
wards a great festal day, if that
would be the right kind of day to
use in this place. Is it to be Won
dered at that we will soon see RO-
man cowboys, who ought to be in
school, landing here on our coast
and inquiring at the corner of
Broadway and Chambers street
where they can find an Indian out
break to quell? May we not look
for the Arabian and Chimes contin-
gent by next spring, armed to the
teeth and asking at an intelligence
office when the DeadwOod stage is
expected, so that they can attack it
and rob it few times.
I saw one Of these kindergarten
cowboys get off train once and go
up through the town. Afterwards
saw him come back. He looked
different somehow. When he got
off at the station [ noticed that he
had long hair which was tied back
with pale blue watered silk rib
! bon. He had long legs which SEEM
ed to extend from his Adams apple
to the ground. A narrow, four-in-
hand necktie denotes where his legs
terminated and his head begun. He
looked real sweet. When he took
the return train there was nothing
to identify him except a strawberry
mark, which he carried carefully
concealed up in a shawl trap.
Boys who sigh to dash madly
across the plains to follow the COW
path to fame do not know the dan
ger and desolation such life in
wolves. There are two classes of COW
boys in the west, viz the working
cowboy and the lay-fgure cowboy.
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