Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-06-30
WILD WEST SHOW.

The 101 Ranch Wild West Show, the
only distinctively and exclusively au-
thentic prairie amusement organiza-
tion of the country, will visit this city
on Thursday, presenting afternoon and
evening performances at the Sachem
park ball grounds and introducing it
self with an elaborate and original
forenoon street parade. Miller Bros &
Arlington, joint owners of the institu-
ton, make promise that nothing like
the 101 Ranch travelling amusement
adjunct in character or 10 magnitude
has ever before been seen in this city
The real life of ranch and range and
Indian camp will be reproduced in all
its vivid and romantic picturesqueness
by actual, living figures of the from
tier.
The organization comes here direct
from the Miller Bros ranch at Bliss.
Okla, the largest and most famous in
all the world. Every one of the 700
members of the show is a permanent
employe of the great prairie enterprise.
paroled to give the public a truthful
view of the life that has vitalized. west
ern history. They look upon their
summer tour in the nature of holiday
lark. At its conclusion they will re-
turn to their duties among the thou
sands of horses and cattle which roam
the 1O1 Ranch fertile acres.
There are three of the Miller Bros
Joseph c.. lack T. and George Land
they are the pride and wonder of Okla
homa and all of the other great south
west. Their land holdings embrace
more than thirty square miles. They
are survivors of the days of the buffalo
drive and the emigrant trail, and are
proving in these days of crowded cities
and contracted commercialism that the
stock industry, on a gigantic scale, is
just as Immensely profitable today as
ever in the history of the country
The 1O1 Ranch has remained intact
IN all its vastness despite the influx
of the small farmer into Oklahoma
Regulation quarter-section homesteads
completely encircle its area, but the
101 Ranch range still remains largely
unlocked and roads end and the trails
begin there. Several tribes of Indians.
living as primitively as in the old DAVIS
nave their homes on the great tract.
and the buffalo wanders at will. In
cidentally the Millers own more than
one-tenth of the present day number
of this one distinctive American ami
BSal.
The organization which Is coming to
this city is an amplified edition of the
show which startled the amusement
world last year. 1t is a living page
from frontier history, without profess
sionalism or Theatres. 1t is solely
ASo- NHu WSol eHOW. livery feature
and figure is original with the 101
Ranch-cowboys, cowgirls, Indians
bucking horses and trained COW ponies
champions of the lariat, the gun and
the bow and arrow, longhorn steers.
pure blooded buffaloes, emigrant
schooners and old time prairie stage
coaches. Without variation or illusion
the sports, perils, pastimes, hardships.
adventures, chivalries and routine du-
ties of the ranch and ranoa
produced in a great arena
This 1O1 Ranch tournament, from its
very nature and source, is different and
distinct from anything ever shown be-
fore under canvas. Miller Bros. & Ar
1ington promise that none of the hack |
neyed, tiresome, familiar round Of other
so-called and mis-called wild west"