The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-04
1O1 RANCH
 WILD WEST
BIG CIRCUS WILL SOON APPEAR
 HERE.
Departs from Usual Circus in that People are Not Professional Show
 PeOpIe-Esealiy Ranch
 men Ou a Lark.

Announcement is made of the ap-
 pearance in this city on Oct. Is of
 Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West
 Show, the most remearkable travelling | amusement organization of the coun- | try. Every member of it is a resident 1 of the 100000 acres of prairie the 1 Millers own and operate at Bliss, Okla. l The advance representative character izes it as the 101 Ranch transported in miniature" to these doors. The Millers are the most famous cat | tlemen of the Southwest.
 There are three of them, and they started with a homestead allotment of 160 acres when the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlement Today their holdings includes three towns, parts of three counties, and some European principalities would be lost in the vast area. Twenty-Five thousand cat tie and horses roam their pasture land, and their employees number near ly a thousand.
 Yielding to the insistence of the directors of the Jamestown Exposition for a real illustration of Western life. the Millers put on a show at the Worlds Fair last summer that created a furore in the amusement world. Nothing like 1t had ever been seen be- fore New York demanded a duplicate and another foray was made upon the ranch to gratify the Eastern metropo- lis. The two shows broke all records in popularity and patronage.
 Hundreds of cities clamored for a sight of the 10I Ranch arenic won ders, but New York and Jamestown crowds forbade. Only Chicago, Louis en route, saw the performance, and each recorded tremendous favor. The two organizations were consolidated during the winter for a tour of the country. and are coming here in all their united glory and magnitude. Their success in every other city visited this season has been unprecedented
 Miller Brothers show deI arts abso- lutely from the familiar hackneyed routine of so-called Wild West" exhi- bitions. Every person and feature is real, vital and characteristic. The per formers are not professionals. but men. women and children on lark" from the ranch. Every name is known on the ranches Of the South vest for skill or daring in avocations of the range. Buffaloes, steers. "bucking" and sad dle horses and coWp0nies belong on the 10l Ranch and every cha ulpiOn of the lariat shartshooter. cowgirl cow boy. trick rider and other participant Is permanently on the Millers' pay roll. There are more than loo Indians, many of them fresh from the wigwams of the tribes who have their homes on the lOi Ranch land. Removed chief tains and warriors, squaws, opposes and Indian belles and beauties are among tn em. They are all making their first appearance with pale-face cIvili- zation.
 The 101 Ranch Show travels In fifty specially railroad cars. Performances will be given afternoon and evening, and 1t will introduce it. self in the forenoon with a street pa rade which Is unique In the annals of outdoor pageants. 1t stretches more than a mile In length. with out circus tinsel or vaudeville imitation The romance and adventure and fam ciful spirit of the West pervade .. throughout.