New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-07

Horn Montana lSib the revolt ubJuS'LIloll
of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces in 1917 and the
outbreak and srbversion Of the Sioux Pine Ridge,
South Dakota 1890 which had tor one OF incidents
the killing of Sitting Bull Of Custer layers OF the
Little Big IIonthc red man as ighter stepped out
Today With one hundred thousand Indians in the State
Of Oklahoma living and voting like white men, ana some
o them holding office and with a large and rapidly IN
crcasng part of the other two hundred thousand VINO
are scattered through the West wearing wIr'S man
clothes and adopting white mans ways; the abongine
has ceased to be useful for purposes OF romance ana the
dime novel has dropped HIM. ~
But there were other features OF tc on the frontier
within the recollection Of tens Of thousands OF us Wch
the dime novels asabstracts and bret chronicles OF the
time Dicturcd graphically. Colonel PrentiSS lngra-
hams dGold Plum or Buffalo Bill, the Pony Express
Rider carries us back to the days IRON 1898 TO tnc
completion Of Coils p IIuntingtons and OaKcS AneS
transcontincnta railway in 1869, when John Butter
fields and Ben Holidays coaches ana pony cNPIcSSeS
we're the only tangible connecting INK between o'
western frontier on the Missouri and oan FRANCISCO ana
the Pacific Coast. Those were days Whcl outlaws OH
the plains levied tribute on passengers III the stage vi
the treasure of the pony mail carriers, ana on St pa
tie; Of colonists the Oregon and santa re IrlS.
Joseph E. Badger Jrs, "Black John, PmIip D NaInc
@Cabtain Arizona" and many books by other writers
tell SO plainly how all this done that we lecl we
could do il ourselves if tried One particular person
age of Warncs is described as The hing I'm OF !nc
Road Agents" and we learn IN the story Sol"cIlhnb
ahout "Patent Leather Ioc's Big Game. In SuDSe-
ncnt tale captain Mask Warnc introduces us TO the
dIadv Road Agent who bluffs and utterly overhrowS
"Patcnt Leather Joe
NIT tho frontiers most vocifcrous and pcrvasvc per-
ID sonagc Of the half century since the dime mover
advent IS the cowboy His deeds fill whole libraries IL
was the tcn-ccnt books that got him FIRST ana eHpoco
him farthcst 1t was not till later that the writers ol
more high-toncd and expensive fiction took him up.
The I0nq-horncd cow and the cowboy came III 10,
gethcr As recall the wilder and wider West Of inc ola
days they began few years alter ~ D.
distinctive feature Of the landscape from the e%aS ran
handle TO the Bad Lands Of the upper Missouri ana
tbcv grew in number and obyousncss for the next quar-
ter Of a century. In cattle raising many large fortunes
were made and some fortunes and many ycS were IoSC
Warnc', "Captain Adair, the Cattle King, William u;
p,ttcn's "Cowbov Hotspur" and Cowboy sport,
Dumonts evil Eye, King Of the Cattle meVcT, ana
Ingrahams cowboy Clan, or the IigreSS from GH,
give picture Of this life in many aspects WIN the m
rush Of settlers who built homes and towns, ana inc
erection Of barbcd wire fences by powerful SquatterS
round vast tracts Of Government land, the range area
diminished its glory faded, and the dime hoVcnS'' 'u
10 seek other sources tor material. 8,
They found the material ready to their hand long be-
fore the cowboy, even the INDIAN tel down lor 'G
and it came TO them in overwhelming measure OH
unc 3 ISL the lanes boys and the louiBcI5' SIN VI
seven crsons in all robbed bank 1T Corydon iowa, OF
fifteen thousand dollars, and escaped to Their homes III
Missouri On Iuv 20 1873 just east Of Council BUNS;
the gang wrecked a Rock Island tram, hlnGd anu
;Ylnlc some Of its crew. stole five thousand or SIX
thousand dollars from its express car ana got away
These were the first Of long list Of bank ana tram rob
berries By these particular maraudcrs Waterloo cane
for some Of them in September, 1876, when, III attempt
ing 10 rob bank in Mortified, Minnesota, several Z"
the Youngcrs were captured, others OF the gang were
killed and Jesse and Frank James escaped for reward
II t,1 thousand dollars offered by Governor Crticndcn
If Missouri the State in which most 81 the aihcSo'
crime, were pcrp.,ratci former member Of the gang
killed Ic-ac in 1852 and few months later his hi"'hcT
Frank surrendered 20 Crttcnicn. lie was tired on one
charge acquitted and h. ncc been living an honest me-
THESE crime, tell the when" and the why" Of the
L detective novel, and in the last third Of = century