The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-01
\ GREAT OPEN AIR STORY
 OF EARLY LIFE IN WEST
Buffalo Bill Show Comes to Bridgeport With Large As semblage of Scouts,
 Indians and Horses

The facilities of a newly construct ed style of arena and amplified scenic effects, enables the management to present for the first time in a can vas enclosure. the epochs and events of Frontier Life never before possible The bringing of this animated diora- ma of life and action into close view. wish the great tents designed and painted to represent mountain seen cry and afford an effective landscape and background to more appropriate ly illustrate the episodes. expiolts ana incidents of The Conquest of Con tinent, and especially that portion covered in the career of Col. W. F. Cody-Buffalo Bill in the making of Pioneer History from the Misssslp- pi River to the Pacific Coast, thus in suring an intirely new production. I'm me5iately after the customary intro duction of Worlds Congress of Rough Riders, and other events incidental to the programme, the scene will open on a series of picturesque, thrilling and dramatic action. depicting in chrono- logical order the story of Life on the Plains with true fidelity to the primi- tive conditions of that time and per- iod-
 First will be seen the primeval prai- ries, with real Buffalo grazing in the foreground, later pursued and. hunted with naked Indians on horseback, with bow and arrow. as 1t was done before the white man and civilization gave them more deadly weapons.
 Following in regular sequence will be seen nearly one hundred of the no blest specimens of the blanket Indians, selected from the various tribes of the Sioux nations or the LakOtas of the Northwest, just as nature created them, showing his primitive method of travel, nomadfc life and all the daring courage, crafty and pictures que qualities which have made him the most striking example of the earth's savage tribes. As a prologue to the ression of these animated pictures will be given. of the Indians at home, on the trail and on the war path they will be seen crossing the plains on a combined Tnarauding and travelling ex- petition, on the lookout for the white mans caravan, with it's provisions, clothing. horses and cattle, which al- ways acted as a stimulus for the scalp hunters to appease their natural mo- tive for plunder and revenge. Their mode of travel, method of erecting their tepees and wickeupes, the mak- Ing and perfecting their sports, pas times, Joyous revelry, religious cere- monies, home life and camp festivi- ties, will be presented an open book to the spectators of to-day. Their mode of evening worship, not the least Important of which will be the Sun Dance, showing the method of their self-inffiction of torture physical in- Eurance and test of courage of the braves, accompanied by weird song, monOtonous yells and the bang of tom ko.ns, all of which will be illustrated In dance, song, feasting and smoking the pipe of peace. They will also fn- nuIge in many peculiar sports to de- selop their physical we'll being and exhibitions of human skill, such as expert horsemanship, racing, running bow and arrow practice, throwing of fhe tomahawk, the expert using of the lance and spear and among their so- cial contests that of ''The Race for Bride~
 These festivities are interrupted by