The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-20
& REA Z SHOT
WILL BE
SEEN

Captain George f. Bartlett, repre-
senting the Peters Cartridge company
of Cincinnati, conceded 10 be the
greatest rifle shot in the world. and
w. Fl. Anderson of this city. one of
the most expert handlers of shot.
gun in the whole intermountain coun-
try, Will give exhibitions of fancy
shooting at the Fair grounds every
day during the Four State fair. This
Will be one of the many free attrac-
tions which Will be seen during the
fair.
Captain Bartlett is one Of the pic
turesque characters of the frontier
west He has run the whole gamGt
of adventure on the plains and noun
tains. He has been a tanner OF bad
men in the mining camps OF the law
less days of the past, and he has
taken most active part in some of
the most bloody Indian uprlSings He
has helped blaze the trail over which
the men-of today travel In the old
stage coach days he led skirmiShes
against redskins and trailed bandits
to their haunts In the mountains
What Is true oil all the widest tales
OF the west printed in the books of
fiction, Bartlett knows from actual ex.
perience
When in the fall of 1890 Sitting
Bull, the greId chief of the Sioux
Indians, reused his knsmen to make
last stand against the encroachment
OF the paleface hordes. the United
States government sought Captain
Bartlett Bartlett was then United
States deputy marshal, and in the
great emergency he was advanced to
that of captain OF the Indian mounted
police scouts OF Dakota. CAPTAIN
Bartlett well knew the danger that
attended his new duties. and this
knowledge OF danger but whetted his
appetite for adventure. At the head
OF the lnudian scouts, he started out
TO uncover the location OF the war.
painted braves. II was during an al.
most lone-handed encounter with
band OF desperate redskins that Bart.
lett was shot In the knee. In the bat.
Tie between the United States soldiers
and Indians which followed shortly
after this preliminary skirmish. over
Tour hundred OF the aborigines were
sent to the happy hunting grounds.
Remembering the many outrages
which the Indians had inflicted upon
helpless settlers. the whites showed
but little mercy and 1t is said that
the battle at its close was turned into
a heartless massacre, in which the
soldiers slew their red enemies in
rash brutality.
Captain Bartlett because of his IN
jury, could take but little part in the
light yet In telling of 1t he does NOT
shield the soldiers from criticism for
tne massacre OF the defeated Indians.
since the time of the injury to his
knee, Captain Bartlett has been called
by the Indians Wounded Knee, and
the battle which was fought near the
site OF Bartlctts cabin Is still remem-
bered ms the battle Of Wounded Knee
i can't say that | would care 10
live over again the old days" said
captain Bartlett this morning. for
my blood does not flow with the same
leaps and bounds that ii did then.
Ihe times have changed and have
changed with them My work OF
scouting and shooting for a living ia
eone-that Is, ] no longer shoot at
living things. am no longer a
hunter of men or beasts. but | can
still shoot. The new cartridges and
the new hrearms make ii possible to
perform feats with a rifle which were
entirely impossible In the old days.
The best shooters of the old days
could not do the stunts that do to-
day-thsy had no such guns and no
such ammunition, and it would have
been impossible"
Captain Bartlett Is quiet in his do.
meanor and is never boastful Of his
adventures or OF his ability with the
rine-he Is advertising cartridges
and he gives all credit 10 the ammunI.
tion which he uses. Modern and busl-
nesslilie though he has become, he is
stlll the sort of man one would want
AZ his side when danger is threaten.
ing. for he is just tho sort OF man one
feels he could trust when on that
trust hung life itself