The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-06-08
10, RANCH WILD WEST
Famous Show to Be Seen at North
Adams on Friday.

Adams on Friday.
Announcement was made OF the APP
pearance in North Adams ON June
18th of the 101 Ranch Wild West
show, which is probably the most re-
markable travelling tented amusement
organization in the country. Every
member of it is a resident OF the
100 900 acres of prairie the Miilers
own and operate at Bliss, Okla. one
OF the advance representatives char-
acterizes It as the "101 Ranch trans
norted In miniature for day to THIS
city
The Millers are undoubtedly the
most famous cattlemen of the great
southwest. There are three OF them
and they started with a homestead al
Iotment of 100 acres when the Cher
okee strip was opened to settlement.
Joe" Miller made the run and plant
ed his flag of ownership on the banks
of the Salt Fork, slender tributary
Of the Arkansas River. Today the
Miller holdings include three towns
and parts of three counties. and some
European principalities would be lost
in the vast 10l Ranch area. Cattle
and horses roam the fertile acres III
| thousands, and the Millers buy and
sell by the train-load. The small
| farmer may till his quarter-section In
| Oklahoma, but the 101 Ranch remains
unencroached upon. Here remain the
wild buffalo, the cowboy and the
cowgirl in their pristine glory, and
| here the Indian still smokes, undis-
turbed in tepee, hue or possibly rough
lodge of skins.
The Millers are newcomers in the
professional amusement field. and en-
rolled more by accident tnan design.
Two years ago they yielded to insis-
tence of the directors of the James
town Exposition for whooping illus
tration of real western life by send
ing show to the national fair which
created an immediate furore. Whet
her or not the exposition in whole
was an artistic and financial success
it served to attract the attention oil
the amusementloving public upon the
entertainment which the three Okla
homa ranchmen provided. Nothing
quite like this Oklahoma show had
ever been seen before. Before the
fair was half over, New York City de
!, manded a duplicate show and another
foray was made upon the ranch tc
crafty the eastern metropolis. 1t re
manned at Brighton Beach, New Yorh
J City, for six weeks and crowds came
in increasing numbers.
, Hundreds of cities clamored for 8
; sight of the l01 Ranch arenic wonders
but the Millers packed up in the fal
and journed back to the Oklahoma
, praisie with no thought of further ex
perience as showmen. But fate anC
; the asture professional amusement
purveyor willed otherwise. BY spring
} Edward Arlington, well known cir
Gus man, had formed an alliance witt
them and the 101 Ranch Wild West
Show was a permanent factor in the
amusement world. The Brighton
Beach and the Jamestown Exposition
organizations were consolidated. The
success of the big new institution
last year has never been equalled in
the records of tented entertainments
In cities great and small, in Canads
and as far south as Mexico City
Mexico, it give its tournament before
cheering crowds.
, TIE show which is coming is al
amplifted version of the one which
broke all records in patronage anC
popularity last year. Joseph c. Mill
: er, senior of the threebrothers, is il
personal active charge. He promises
that patrons will witness a tourna
ment that departs absolutely from tn,
familiar. tedious routine of the so
! called wild West" exhibitions. II,
! home and its origin are the Oklahoma
praises. Every person and feature Il
real vital and Characteristic. Tn,
: performers are not professionals. bu
men, women and children on lark
from the 101 Ranch. Every man il
known on the ranches of the south
west for skill or daring in ayocation
of the range. Buffalos, steers. buck
ing and saddle horses and cowponie
belong on the lOl Ranch, and ever.
champion of the lariat. sharpshooter
cowgirl. cowboy, trick rider and othe
participants is permanently on tn,
payroll of the 101 Ranch. A herd o
gaunt long horned western steers
is a fantastic feature. There arr
more than one hundred Indians, many
of them fresh from the wigwams o
the tribes VINO have their homes OF
the 101 Rancn land. Renowned chief
tains and warriors, squaws, papoosei
and Indian bellies and beauties ar,
among them. They are making theil
first acquaintance with paleface civi
liZation.
Performance will be given here af
tenoon and evening and the enter
prize will introduce itself in the fore
noon with street parade which II
unique in the annals of outdoor pa
geants. 1t stretches more than q
mile in length and the romance anC
adventure and fanciful spirit of tne
actual west prevade it throughout.