Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-03-16
COWMEN AT CAPITAL.
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time, but when he was told that his
son was out in front on horse that
the cowpunchess had given sshim, he
went out to look the pony over.
That's beauty" enthusiast
cally commented the president, after
he had walked around the horse and
critically sized him up. George
Fuller who rode with Theodore to
the White House, was recognized as
one Of the presidents old acquain-
tances in Deadwood and Mr.. Roose-
welt talked with him for a few min
6tes about old times and the new
horse.
Proud Day in Ted's Life.
AS they rode away the president
gazed admirably at his sons horse
and outfit, and again remarked that
it was "a fine pony. This is tie
proudest day in Ted's life," he said.
Three thousand people witnessed
the exhibition of roping and riding
given 10y the cowpunchers this after
noon. After the show they auctioned
off their ponies at prices ranging
from $50 to 500. They were well
satisfied with the sale.
Capt. Seth Bullock, first sheriff of
Deadwood, chief of the Black Hills
forest rangers, old friend of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and commander of
the cowboy brigade which went to
Washington to be present at the
Inauguration of the president, has
given an interview in Washington
extroling the personality of the
president.
Looking at it from the top of a
cayuse, this Inauguration appears
mighty significant to me, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has already put his
mark on this country. At the end
of another four years the Roosevelt
brand will be so clear it won't wear
off for many moons.
The crowds in Washington show
the Roosevelt spirit. The people
are mostly bright and energetic,
typical of the president. It's just
like it is on the range, if the owner
of ranch is an active, honest, hard
working man, you can tell his cow
boys as far as you can see the outfit
by the vigorous way they work. If
the owner is dissolute, dishonest or
lazy, the cowboys are likely to be
the same way.
81 Now, long before most of us in
Dakota knew Roosevelt we used to
hear about him. Cowboys riding
down to our country from $50 miles
away used to say: "That fellow
Roosevelt up there on the Little
Missouri is dead square. He don't
ask a man to ride any horse he don't
ride, and he don't make any man
watch on the roundup that he amt
feady to stand himself"
That is the kind of reputation
Roosevelt had in the cattle country,
where things a man does and not
What he talks about mades his repu-
tation. He's no fair weather sailor,
and our boys out west know it.
That's the reason sixty boys came
down here with me. Nearly all of
them have ridden the range, and a
good many of them used to know
Theodore, and they are all strong
Tor him. They have all paid their
own expenses and will have to sell
their ponies to get back, all because
they wanted to see one of their own
people, or, rather, man who had
hved with them and is as much or
more a westernea than easterner,
inhugurated as president"
No Exhibition in New York.
Capt. Seth Bullock's COW punch
ID postponed until Thursday their
'ieit to New York and decided not
ogive public exhibition there of
heir skill in riding and roping.
rhey feared that such display
ook as though they were making
apital of the presidents friendship
or them, and they are the last per-
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