The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-08-07
PIONEER DAYS AT
The STA / AIR
Early Times In South Dakota.
to Be Portrayed.
FINE HISTORICAL PAGEANT.

Three Hundred Performers, including
Forty Full Blooded Sioux Indians, Will
Take Part In Pains Fireworks Dis
play-Nightly Feature at Huron viii
Include Clusters Last Fight.
BY far the grandest attraction ever
offered to State Fair visitors will be
presented this year in Pains mag
nificent historical spectacle, Pioneer
Days" and Memories Of Clusters Last
Conflict" This will be the most splen-
did drama ever staged in the entire
west Its production requires more
than 200 performers, Indians, soldiers,
settlers, hunters and trappers, as we'll
as pioneer settlement of log cabins,
prairie schooners, rail fences and ev-
erything necessary to make the presen-
tation realistic. This is by far the
most costly attraction ever secured by
The State Fair Board.
"Pioneer Days"
In reproducing Pioneer Days" the
! general scene shows typical pioneer
settlement in consistent setting, trad
ing post, stockade, fort and troops In
readiness to put down Indian upris-
Ings. Farm scenes, grain, stacks and
fields will be seen around the settle
ment
The first setting shows peaceful
scene of activity-settlers at work In
their fields and hmberland, their good
housewives busy about the cabins, the
sturdy blacksmith and helper busy at
their forge and friendly Indians loung-
Ing about the trading post.
Arrival Of Dispatch Rider.
A dispatch rider is seen TO approach
the fort, riding hard. He leaves or
| ders for a detachment Of troops to
| proceed west to quell an Indian upris-
| Ing. The courier dashes on into the
settlement leaves the mail at the
store, changes horses and is off again.
Now, far away in the west, an In
! dian fire signal is seen 1t Is soon an
swered from the south and again from
another point. The people Of the set
tlement exhibit considerable uneasi-
ness, and little groups of men are seen
| together watching the signals. (The
troops are away Soon another Indian
fre is started, this time much nearer
| the settlement, and in the dim distance
| the skulking figures may be seen. The
are increases in volume, and the In
dian chiefs may be seen addressing
their people.
scaIpers Approach Settlement.
The Indians, now worked into an in
sane frenzy, are coming toward the
settlement with hideous yells The
| settlers make determined stand and
repulse the awful horde. But slowly
the redskins close in on them. In a
short time they must go down. Their
prairie schooners are already burning
| around them. The women at the fort,
knowing what their fate will be should
their defenders fail, are seen firing
from the portfolios.
Troops Appear For Rescue.
But now out of the west welcome
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The boys In blue are seen approaching
In open order, on double quick, to the
rescue, but not a minute too soon
The Indians, jubilant over their VIC
tory, are taken by surprise as the sol
diers surround them. The settlers,
with renewed vigor, come from behind
| the barricade and with the aid of the
troops exterminate the entire band of
| redskins.
In this, the most thrilling and excit-
ing Of climaxes, the picture will not
| be oyerdrawn, but will be true to life.
The spectacle is given during the even
Ing with beautiful lighting effects.
In connection with the offering of
"Pioneer Days" the Pain company
will present that historical event of
more than passing interest to all patri-
otic South Dakotans-namely, "Cus-
fer's Last Conflict