The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-09-02
ROOSEVELT
TALKS At
CHEYENNE
IMMENSE THRONG THERE FOR
THE CLOSING DAY OF FROM.
TIER CELEBRATION.
FRONTIER PARK FILLED FULL
OF a Representative Western Audi
ece-Teddy Talks on Frontier
Life.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 27.-Chey
enne was filled with people toda.
and there was a representative
crowd of many thousands at From
tier Park.
Indian dances, pony races, tricl
and fancy work with the lariet, COW.
boy larks and lesser cowboy sports
between the major events, making
what was long ago established for
Frontier shows a continuous and
never wearying performance.
Col. Roosevelt reached the city
shortly after 9 O'Clock. He was met
by a reception committee composed
Of state, fedora. and city officials.
Several plainsmsn uttered a series of
deafening yells. He was escorted TO
the stand at the state capital and re-
viewed the largest and most spectac-
ular parades in the history Of Wyo-
ming. United States troops marched
past. and hundreds OF Indians decked
with paint passed in front OF the
stand. The parade was two hours in
passing After the parade Col
Roosevelt was the guest Of honor o.
prominent Wyoming men This at
rernoon the Colonel was taken 10
Frontier Park, where he delivered an
address. This Afternoon at 2 o'clock
he was given 4 horseback ride by
United States Senator Warren TO MS
ranch. Roosevelt leaves for Denver
at 8 o'clock Monday morning.
Among other things Col. Roose-
yelt said.
When. at the close OF my hunt
ing trip in Africa, I reached the.
borders OF civilization. the first in
%vitation I accepted was this, to visit
the capital OF Wyoming on the day
when the people of the frontier came
together to commemorate their
achievements: was glad it was so.
because have a peculiar feeling
for the men and women of what used
to be. called the Far West" and es-
pecially for those of the cattle coun-
try.
For a number of years / lived
On a ranch on the Little Missouri,
sharing work and play, good fortune
and bad fortune, with my neighbors;
WORKING on the roundup, serving as
delegate from the Little Missouri
roundup district to the Montana
Stock Growers Association and v
1t times acting a deputy sheriff at
ny end of the country. 1 count
those years as among the most valu-
able of my life. because nothing
breeds such community of feeling as
to work with ones fellowmen at
their life tasks, and to learn to know
their feelings by actually sharing
them. The man of the west.
throughout the successive stages of
western growth, has always been
one of the two or three most typical
hgures-indeed. ] am tempted to say
the most typical figure-in American
life, and no man can really under.
stand u country and appreciate
what 1t really is and what it prom
fses unless he has the fullest and
closest sympathy with the ideals and
aspirations of the west.
The prime reason for this is to
~ found in the fact that the wester-
1eT II SO good an American. He is
IN American first and foremost: for
III n the great lesson, friends, that
IN ~ ~ need to learn and to keep,
tks lesson that 1t is unimportant
WxeShsr q man lives north or south,
ARst or west, provided he is genu-
fSe11 and In good faith an American,
tlR6e ~ feels every part Of the Unit
M HtetsS ~ his own. and that he is
1h6NHEz1y DESTROYS to uphold the in
fNf6tf6 s6f all other Americans in
WlStSyer sections Of the country
~ my dwell.
1fGE vest stands for growth. for
~Sf6fftsxs 10 must the whole Amer
it8x f60Dts stand. A great dem-
66f4ty AsuEt be progressive or It will
S0fnf 66s1e 70 be either great or
ksqn16f0tf61 No nation. no state, NO
6xf(y eG6 st3sd still. It must either
VI f6fNafA Of 80 backward; and 1t
SsSt6sx ascfess II It goes backward.
2ESyfSfx greet you. mon Of the
xsk SNds ana I stand for progress
III MsG dust stand Who are pro-
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