The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-10
STORY OF THE PAST
HEROrsM OF HEART AND HAND
 TOLD IN WILD WEST.
Buffalo BEll And Ills Troup Give Realistic Exhibitions of The Day When Frontiermen Were
 Opening Great West.

Heroism of heart and head and hand --lthe greatness of physical man. his strength, his nimble quickness, his cun- ming and daring to do thing which half done mean bodily hurt and pain. per- haps death--such is the spirit of the story told in the wonderfully varied and coiored iife-pictures of Buffalo
 Bills Wild West Thousands saw there was almost nothing to hear--the performance; thousands applauded the unique individual who led the bands or out door men from the quarters of the globe and the queer people who are with him. It was an outdoor show; It's atmosphere was the atmos- phere of faraway climes and faraway times: its argument was splea for remembrance of the men Of the hitherland of time and space. whose courage made possible their skill ahorse and afoot.
 The Wild west. chiefest interest was the picture of the Wild West. the West
 that with the end of the buffalo and the domestication of the Indian. was
 slowly but surely rubbed from the
 pages of reality and reprinted more
 luridiy in fiction and in history. It
 is the Wild West, with It's cow-punch-
 CTS. It's Mexican greasers, its Indians | m DalnL ana LGAtHGTot ttAAb Al6ACD 0Ak- falo Bills show enduring, though It's
 added features of entertainment are
 not to be despised
 Colonel Cody delighted the vast con- course of spectators. To those who had seen him half dozen years previ- ously he appeared to have aged but slightly. As the central and most ad- mirable figure of his picturesque com panions, he was a fascinating person,
 as he rode with majestic grace about
 the field or shot with remarkable skill.
 Of the features of the Wild West the equestrianism, was naturally the most striking as we'll as the most near ly perfect number. Cowboys. cavalry
 men of various nations. Indians and female rought riders Of the West. rode horses in attitudes that often were not attitudes at all but apparently acciden-
 tai positions caught by hap and held by hazard.
 Bucking bronchos were busted" by
 men and women ndiscriminately; men trailed upon the ground while their horses, obedient to whip and word. raced wildly; there were journeys with sword and spear: men leaped on and off horses backs or hurdled with them over high barriers.
 Mexicans toyed with lassos magical ly; 1t was like trick by slight of hand; | it could not be true--yet there 1t was done, with ease and pretty grace. The Indians were a wonderful pic- ture. In full war paint they trailed ksolemnly across the great plain. I bivouaced peacefully, were melted to | battle by their dance, and with fright fu. shrieks fell upon the pale faces. Tn the mimicry they afforded a great
 spectacle. The naked. painted figures, their ornaments of skins and feathers. their strength of body and grace of limb, are a part of the vanished West. Buffalo BilTs Wild West is a great
 show: it pleased Montgomery people. who will probably go to see it again | if 1t comes. Some complained at hav- \ ing to pay a whole dollar for admis- sion and reserved seat.