Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-08-29
PAwMEE BILL is IN TOWN

Famous Scout and Guide Ar
rlves in Missouri Valley
With His Great Wild West
Show.
Street Parade Was a Grand
Affair.
People Turned Away From
the Ticket Wagon This Al
ternoon-Show is Enter
tanning and Instructive.
Close the ticket wagon and sell no
more tickets" was the order shouted
from Manager krause to the ticket
seller at pawnee Bins Wild West
show at 2 O'clock this afternoon.
"'rhere are as many people in the tent
as we can comfortably seat" Pawnee
Hill believes that every one who pays
to visit mis- show should be entitled to
g seat and witness the performance
unmoles,ea, something that can't be
done where shows permi5 over crowd
ing Pawnee Bill is to be commended
for this action and he and his show
will be doubly welcome to Missouri
Valley on Its return.
Pawuee Bills Wild West show ar
rived in Missouri Valley Sunday
morning and soon "a white city APP
|peared on the Uargsns tract. Tepees
were put up by the Indians. cowboys
pitched their tents and representa-
tives of all races were seen every
where. 1t being Sunday and an off
day the employees of the show were
free to mlngle together and tell stories
as they smoked their pipes in the
shade of their tents. During the at
ternoon and evening thousands of peo-
pie visited the show grounds.
"Pawnee BILL" otherwise known as
Gordon William Lille, president of
the Arkansas National bank, brought
with him consignment of human and
animal beings, gathered from the four
points of the globe. He carries 1913
people and 246 head of stock, 1t taking
twenty-five cars to transport the ag.
gregation, six pullmans, six stock and
ten flat cars. There was the bronzed
trapper, the United States artillery
man, the Mexican vaquero, the Rus
sian cossack, the Indian squaw and
her papooses, and many other types
characteristic of this conntry's early
times
Among the Indians, who form no
small part of the caravunsary, are
Ridge Bear, considered by many the
finest specimen OF the aborigines now
extant, and whose portrait, painted by
Il. "A. Burbank, than whom there is nc
better artist as far as Indian subjects
are concerned, created such furore
lNiser young man, Thunder and the
celebrated not to say notorious Crazy
Snake
The parade of the morning was not
only entertaining but highly instruc,
tive. being replete with chronological
subjects. Then it was not of the us,la
circus type, where beasts of the free
and wide forest and jungle are caget
in prisons darkened with gaudily
painted, mirror bedecked walls, allow
ing hardly enough of Gods free air IL
give sustenance to the soul and pene
trate into the Egyptian recesses. L,
was all free and unmuZzled that pre-
sented itself TO the eyes of the humanl
tartan onlOoker. But what q contras,
was there! Here the fry, untamec
Bedouin on his quivering Arabian
j steed, the bluest blooded animal of thu
Kingdom; there the proud and naughty
! Indian of bones and sinews, fondIy
astrlde his beloved broncho. lookin;
out into the world deliantly, and dis
painfully on tie civilization abon
him which had robbed him of his pos
sessions yet withal SO nobly erect a.
j, il he were ths compliment of his steet
separable; hero the lI.iited states cav
alryman, every Inch q ruler and
leader, looking about az ii to be sur,
that all might see what stuff heroes
are made OF; there the last OF the race
! the American cowboy, equal to al
J emergencies, without a price on hi
life, ready TO sacrifice 1t and himsel
for the benefit of human kind whel
called upon to do SO, vaiueimg hi
, horse of greater worth than himself
bedecking it with ornaments gathtret
all over the far extending plans, sec
ond to no hoIse1nan. equally as craft
as the Indian, bronzed 50 that cXcep
: for closer inspection he might easl
be classed as such, his clear eye su,
veying the things about him with cor
tempt as fit for women only, not TO
3 men.
This afternoon there was an In
mense attendance at the show ground!
! 1t is highly probable that the capacit
of the tent will be taxed again tonigh
: when all men can go with their fan
lilies. The show IS worth more tina
the price of admission, offering some
: thing for everybody, being so varie
: in its character One of the most sati!
Q factory features of the 'Pawnee Bill
!, attraction is the fact that each an
!. every feature advertised appeared 0