The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-28
REAL WILD WEST
 SHOW COMING
 HERE ON JULY 5
Miller Brothers With Ranch lol Outfit
 Have a Sire Winner.

tlon OK the country, Will visit this clty
 on July 5, presenting afternoon and ev-
 ening performances and introducing itself with an elaborate and original forenoon street parade. Miller Bros.
 & Arlington, joint owners of the insti- tuition, make promise that nothing like
 the 101 Ranch travelling amusement adjunct in character or in magnitude has ever before been seen in this city. The real life of ranch and range and
 Indian camp will be reproduced in all it's vivid and romantic picturesque ness by actual. living figures of the frontier.
 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 permanent
 employe of the great prairie enterprise. paroled to give the public truthful
 view of the life that has vitalized
 western history. They look upon their
 summer tour in the nature of holi- day lark. At it's conclusion they will return to their duties among the thou sands of horses and cattle which roam the 101 Ranch fertile acres.
 There are three of the Miller Bros. Joseph C., Zack T. and George L. and they are the pride and wonder of Oklahoma and all ,of the other great southwest. Their land holdings em-
 brace 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 com
 mercialism that the stock industry, on l a gigantic scale, is just as immense | ly profitable today as ever in the his | tory of the country.
 The 1o1 Ranch has remained intact in all its vastness. despite the influx of the small farmer into Oklahoma. Reg ulation Quarterjsection homesteadS
 completely encircle its area. but the
 1o1 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 days have their homes on the great tract and the buffalo wanders at will. 1n- cidentally, the Millers own more than | one-tenth of the present day number of this one distinctively American ami nal.
 This is the second year that has
 numbered the 101 Ranch owners in the ranks of professional travelling amuSe-
 ment purveyors. For many years the 101 Ranch has been the wonder-spot | and the show-place of all the south
 west Frequently the Millers gath | ed their cowboys and cowgirls and horses and steers and .buffalos into a prairie arena, summoned a few score | of the red men who had their wig | wam homes nearby, and gave inn p-omptu entertainments. The fame of | these pectacular displays tattracted | first the attention of Oklahoma, and then their fame spread through the
 country. In June, 1905, the railroads deposited more than 75,000 persons, who came from cities even as remote as New York and San Francisco, at one of these gatherings. Two years later, when the Jamestown Exposition was promoted, the directors turned to the Miller Bros, as the most famous representatives of the cattle raising business, to give an arenic ilustra-
 ton of its featurels. That the show from the Oklahoma prairie was the
 sensational triumph of the fair is
 known of all who attended. So in simultaneously tremendous was the patronage and popularity that New
 York city demanded a duplicate enter tainment The Millers hurried back
 to the ranch, recruited another show
 from the resources of their acres and sent it on to Brighton Beach, New York city, where for six weeks it broke metropolitan records of attend ance and favor.
 Before the first snow of winter had
 whitened the 1O1 Ranch range-land,
 the Millers and their men and women and live stock were back from what they all called their spree with no notion but that their experience as
 "show people" was over. But the reputation their entertainment had
 achieved had made too deep an inn pression not to focus the longing eyes of famous amusement men upon the 1O1 Ranch The three ranch men re- sisted all overtures-and propositions came to them from many and varied f1attering sources-until Edward Ar lington placed his plans before them.
 Then they capitulated and the 101 Ranch Wild West Show became 8. per
 manent factor in the world of tented
 amusements. MT. Arlington assumed exclusive charge of route, publicity
 and the other manifold duties of pro-
 noting the progress and publicity of the show, leaving the Miller Bros. un-
 trammeled in their conduct of the arena.
 The record made by the show last year is one unprecedented in the his tory of the circus. It travelled as far north in Canada as the railroad pen etrates, and did not end it's journeyings
 until it had shown its wonders to Mex ico City, Mexico. Its success was no less spontaneous than enduring. Ev- anywhere crowds focked to its per- fOrmance, never seeming to tire of it's
 stirring, unwonted scenes and move ment-
 The organization which is coming to
 this city is an amplified edition of the
 show which startled the amusement
 from frontier history, without profes-
 sionalism or theatrics. Ut is solely a
 "rear' wild west show. Every feature
 and figure is original with the 1O1 ,Ranch-cowboys, cowg1rlS, Indians,
 bucking horses and trained COW pon- ies; champions of the lariat, the gun
 and the bow and arrow; long horn steers, pure blooded buffaloS, emigrant
  coaches. Without variation or illus
 ion, the sports, perils. pastimes, hard
 ships, adventures, chivalries and rou-
 tine duties of the ranch and range are reproduced in a great arena
 This 1O1 Ranch tournament, from its very nature and source, is different
 and distinct from anything ever shown
 before under canvas. Miller Bros & Arlington promise that none of the
 hackneyed, tiresome, familiar round of
 other So-called and -miS-called "Wild
 West" exhibitions enter into its roar
 ing, rollicking and reckless displays
 It is fresh, clean and wholesome fair
 ly tingling with the breath of prairie
 and mountain. There is not a man or
 woman in it who has not learned the
 secrets of the border far out in the sage brush and the prairie and who
 cannot read the grass and the sky with understanding eyes. The grand entry at each performance is a verit-
 able echo of the plains and the cattle trail
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