Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
GAZE IN AWE
At WILD WEST CAMPS
Buffalo BiII'S Famous Frontiers
men and Indians Ready
for Exhibition Today

. The small boy played "hookey'' from
Sunday school yesterday and carried
water for the elephants munching hay
in Buffalo Bits encampment at Wash
ington street and Vermont avenue.
Holiday crowds joined him later in
the day and roamed at viii over the
arena. They teased the thirsty looking
camels; lodged the hoofs of peevish
broncos, disturbed the afternoon nap
of the heap big chief of the Sioux
as he sat cross-legged at the entrance
to his tepee and invaded the sacred
precincts of the camp cooks The
showmen took it good naturedly, and
the press agent remarked that it pre-
saged "a rattltng good gate receipt for
the opening performance. The small
boy and the camp crowd" he said,
"are our best advertisements. They
tell the folks at home all about 1t,
and the family comes to the show"
Buffalo Bill and Pawnee BilPs COM
bined shows arrived from Santa Bar
bara early yesterday. A space on the
vacant lot at the junction of Wash
ington and Vermont was covered with
canvas and the arena where Indians
and cowboys will struggle for the pos
session of the famous old Deadwood
stage coach was staked out.
The cook and dining tent, where
seventy five men are employed to
serve the employees with food, was
spread shortly after o'clock, and by
80 o'clock the breakfast smoke for a
thousand hungry show men was cloud
ing the morning skies. Long rows of
tables neatly laid with silverware and
shining platters, filled this tent. Be
hind separate partitions, big watts of
coffee and tea boiled and the COOKS
labored over the hot stoves. Three
thousand pounds of meat 1000 loaVes
of fresh bread and $50 gallons of Ice
cream were purchased in Los Angeles
by the show and consumed by its en-
ployes.
Twenty-seven nationalities are rep
resented, and sixty men head as many
departments. There are booted Cos
sacks from the steppes of Russia, Da-
homian negroes of the tribes discoV-
cred by Stanley in darkest Africa,
Sioux and Apache Indians and from
tiersmen of the early days who cam
paigned with Col. Cody.
Chief Iron Tail, grandson of Sitting
Bull, who participated in the Custer
massacre, heads a band of 1856 Sioux.
Their tepees formed a center of at
traction for the crowds yesterday. The
Indians lazily smoked their pipes and
scolded the squaws, who busted them
selves with the days duties. Chief
Little Lone Bear, years old, the
youngest descendant of Sitting Bull,
scampered in and out of the tepees,
his face smeared with red and yellow
paint. Now and then he emitted little
war whoops and stole feathers from
the heads of the braves, who look on
the child with affection as descend
ant of the big war man" Lone Bear
cannot speak English, but he likes the
candy and popcorn of the Americans.
The showmen say he squanders every
nickel that crosses his little brown
palms on the peanut stands near by.
Two emperors and three kings are
credited with having ridden at one
time in the Deadwood stage coach,
which is sixty years old and has seen
service in many hotly contested bat
tie with the redmen. Bill Curtis, Its
driver, is three score and has driven
the coach half of his life. The sturdy
plainsmans body Is SCARED with
wounds received while on its seat
The coach, which, besides its service
on stage line, has been with the Wild