Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-08-28

feet from the stirrup and struck the
ground beside the horse, unhurt.
"Do it again, AL" the crowd shouted,
and he said he would.
Whitney Was Thrown.
Once more Sandcreek was blindfold-
ed and AL. leaped into the saddle. He
stayed there about three seconds.
Sandcreek surprised him by plunging
madly to one side through the gate
into the intield and before Whitney
could recover he bucked so wildly that
the horsemal shot through the air and
fell in a heap on the ground. Sand
creek trotted triumphantly away.
Other Bad Bronchos.
Teddy Roosevelt" "Steamboat" and
"Rockingchair," all known over the
west as horses whom almost no one
can ride, helped to amuse the crowd.
"Steamboat, which has thrown many
a crack rider, is getting old, but he
gave Bill Mckinley, who was second
in the worlds bucking championship
contests today, one Of the hardest
fights Of his life.
"Teddy Roosevelt Some eucker.
Teddy Roosevelt" always has been
a hard horse to handle. He Is a flea
bitten road roam, and was led out to-
day by Hugh Clark, former cham
pion. Scarcely was Clark seated in
the saddle when "Teddy" began to
prance and buck. He did not move
out of a circle fifty feet across, but
he "sun tished" and swapped ends with
such amazing rapidity that Clark was
unseated and rolled in the dirt with
in Is seconds.
Col. Roosevelt immensely Pleased.
Col. Roosevelt looked down from the
stand, immensely pleased at the fight
made by his namesake and cheered
and laughed when Clark rolled in the
dust. Later he called Clark to the
stand and shook hands with him.
"Teddy" Throws Another.
Later in the afternoon "Teddy
Roosevelt was led out again and Will
liam Wallace tried to ride him. Ted
dy" disposed of Wallace even more
quickly than Clark, and the little
horse was cheered wildly as he was
taken to the corral. The Sioux and
Spokane braves had their dearest wish
gratified when they were called over
to shake hands with Colonel Roose-
welt. Decked in every bit of gaudy
finery, they rode to the stand and each
was given a hearty hand clasp in re-
sponse to the greeting, "How?"
Roosevelt's Address in Full.
The full text of Colonel Roosevelt's
speech follows:
Roosevelt Speech.
when, at the close OF my hunting
trip in Africa, reached the borders
of civilization, the first invitation l
accepted was this, to visit the capital
of Wyoming on the day when the peo-
pie of the frontier came together to
commemorate their achievements;
was glad it was so, because l have a
peculiar feeling for the men and wo-
men of what used to be called the
Far West and especially for those
of the cattle country. For a number
of years l lived on a ranch on the
Little Missouri, sharing work and play.
good fortune and bad fortune, with
my neighbors; working on the round
up. serving as delegate from the Little
Missouri roundup district to the Mon
tana Stock-growers association, and
even at times acting as deputy sher-
if at my end of the country. l count
those years as among the most valu'
able of my life, because nothing breeds
such community of feeling as to work
Sill of fhrSy~
tasks, and to learn to know their
feelings by actually sharing them.
The man of the west, throughout the
stages of western growth,
has always been one of the two or
three most typical figuers-indeed, l
am tempted to say, the most typical
figure-in American life, and no man
can really understand our country and |
appreciate what it really is and what
It promises unless he has the fullest
and closest sympathy with the ideals |
and aspirations of the west. The prime |
reason for this is to be found in the
fact that the westerner is so good an
American. He is an American first
and foremost; for this is the great |
lesson, friends, that all of us need to
earn and to keep, the lesson that it
Is unimportant whether man lives
north or south, east or west, provided
le is genuinely and in good faith an
American, that he feels every part of
he United States as his own, and
hat he is honestly desirous to up
hold the interests of all other Ameri-
;ans in whatever sections of the coun-
ry they may dwell.
"A hundred years ago, when men
spoke of the west, they meant the
country between the Alleghanies and
he Mississippi. Fifty years ago the
white mans west took in Minnesota,
Iowa and Kansas, and then skipped
ACROSS to California and Oregon. The
Of the great nlainA and the