The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
Hails "Bossof the Cow
boys" With Its Wild
Whoop-e-e.
COLONEL SHOWS
THEM HOW TO RIDE,
MOUNTED on Bucking White Cow
Pony, Former President Gal
lops Around Park, While
& Crowd Madly Howls Its
Approval - Americans
Must Be Game"
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Cheyenne, Wyo, August 27.-1lheo-
Gore Roosevelt rode around Frontier
Park here to-day on a bucking white
icow pony. amid the wild cheering of
$4,000 cowboys. girls of the prairics
and throng of tenderfect. The ea-
president jumped upon the steed with
1.-THE agility of COW puncher. With
his hat waving in one hand he gripped
the relns with the other and sent his
horse around the track in the pic
tturesque park with cloud OF dust
an his wake.
Colonel Roosevelt took the spec
ttacular ride after he had made his
lSpeech. when an insistent crowd OF
cow punchers got around MIN anc
asked him ii he would not show the
boys" II he knew how TO ride.
That's a good idea. Ill do It, ex-
claimed Colonel Roosevelt.
With cowboy at his side the coll
tonel made the round OF the park and
when he leaped nimbly from his horse
q cheer went up that echoed over the
plains.
An Indian who watched the express
ident, strolled up to the grandstand
and shook hands with the colonel.
Ugh, Ugh, Good.
Ugh, ugh. good" grunted the In
x7lan. as he numbered down
The town is actually crazy over
Roosevelt. Cowboys are going about
the streets shouting for Teddy"
They howl for the colonel. and shoot
their guns into the air. Cheyenne has
never been SO much upset since the
early days, when the frontiersmen
used to come into town. toss OF their
tprandy and go out and fill the air
with bullets.
Colonel Roosevelt got into town al
O'Clock this morning. and the racket
rhe plainsmen made was enough 70
shake the Rockies They fred reVolv-
Lgrs. gave their strange 'whoop-e-e"
cry. and grabbed his hand. patied him
on the back. called him THE boss cow
boy" and then took him out on parade
.where everybody could see him.
Through streets upon which the sun
shone with binding splendor, the eI-
President rode in an automobile. ana
then from reviewing stand watched
the breezy far West parade file past
tl.m. 1t was a strange procession, such
as the colonel never saw before. In II
twere cowboys, who screeched at the
colonel as with gaily bedecked garo
they flashed past his stand. Sioux. Sho-
shone and Araphoe Indians from the
,plains OF Wyoming and South Dakota;
a detachment OF militiamen and caval-
!pride OF the West. and coach of the
old prairie type. not to forget fire
lighters and automobiles filled with the
eminent citizens OF this frontier town.
With Colonel Roosevelt were Governor
Brooks, United States Senators Warren.
of Wyoming. and Borah. of Idaho. and
Ex-Secretary OF the Interior James r.
Garfield, who had come on from Omaha.
Colonel Roosevelt displayed the keen
r. ~ Ia IN ct,r "
hats at the cowboys and Indians ana
went into OBSTACLES when he saw among
the militiamen few cowboys who had
been with him in the Rough Riders at
San Juan.
When the feathercd, queerly painted
1ndIans went past. Colonel Roosevelt
Ieaned over the stand and called out:
There are the descendants of the
original Americans, They are fine. by
jEeorge!"
Him big chief Indian" called out a
stalwart Sioux, who has been struG-
Cling with English on the plains.
After the parade Colonel Roosevelt
was taken in an automobile to the In
terocean Hotel. where he had luncheon
with the prominent ones OF the town.
Climax for Colonel.
Then came the exciting time of the
day. For three days Cheyenne had
been in the throes of It's frontier day
,fete, but the climax had been left for
the colonel.
Frontier Park was damned when
Roosevelt rode in. His appearance was
the signal for a volley of cheers. The
icolonel dotted his hat. smiled on ali
isldes, got more cheers, and took his
place in the reviewing stand to witness
the gyrations OF the cowboys and In
bdians
Y ! /.
broncho rider. was at the park TO run
the show, with his. right arm il, a
sling. Irwin met with an accident yes
terday, when his horse threw him Int o
. fence and broke his collarbone.
Ny, but you are badly hurt!" ex-
fclaimed Colonel Roosevelt. as Irwin
stopped for chat with the former
president. I'VE don't mind those
thlngs colonel" was the reply.
Before the events put down for his
Notification Colonel Roosevelt delivered
his speech to the immense crowd. He
was frequently Interrupted with the
f'whoop- e" cry Of the cowboys Dur
ling the speech Roosevelt digressed
from his notes to say q word to the
girls OF the prairies,
"You are the real American citizens
he told them, and the cowboys showed
their approval by yelling loudly.
q ITO earn his salt man must be
dead game all through his life," was
one OF Colonel RooseYelts expressions
that caught the cowboys. Again he
told them that the country needs men
of the frontier type, and they called
sout: you're right, Teddy; you're a
lcowboy yourself. You're the boss
< cowboy"
The cowboys did wonderful things
for Roosevelt with their ponies. They
raced like mad. chung to their horses
names, and as they dashed wildly
Through the field showed him how 70
spear potatoes while hanging to their
saddles with their .steeds going like
the wind. They had hurdle races. In,
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