The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-27
Frontier Days Announcement.

Announcement is made that From
tier Days, the greatest spectacular
show ever attempted will again be
produced this fall at Walla Walla.
Frontier Days is like turning back
the pages of time and seeing this
western country as it was in the days
before the grain fields and orchards,
and towns and farms, displaced the
fenceless hills and valleys with their
endless carpet of bunchgrass, their
thousands of head of cattle and hor-
ses, the range riders, and cattle
branding corrals, the Indian tepees
and the picturesque savage; it is like
living the life of the pioneer over
free, generous, reckless, wholesouled
life lived by another people as was
lived on the broad prairies and rug
ged hills of the western frontier;
there never has been staged such
spectacular, realistic and thrilling
show as the Walla Walla Frontier
, Days-It is show that causes the
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and ones nerves to tingle with the
thrill of it; and the wonder Of 1t all
| is that it is REAL; it is a show with
out plot or foreordained situation
things just happen, and they happen
| fast and furious, keeping the specta
tor at high tensor every minute
throughout the afternoon. One sits in
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grandstand and witnesses the most
astounding show the world has ever
seen; a show where the characters
are real flesh and blood, sinew and
muscle. The horses one sees in ac-
tion are the real bucking, jumping,
snorting, biting wild horses of the
western range; the cattle are the long
horned, wild creatures that are not
used to civilization and know nothing
of domesticity; the men and women,
are men and women cleaned from the
prairies and hills, and are of a type
that is fast disappearing; men and
women skilled from childhood in
horsemanship, in the use of the
branding iron and the sinuous lariet;
men and women who form and rep
resent type of manhood and wo-
man hood found nowhere else in the
world. Then there are the hundreds
of gaudily painted bucks and squaws,
with their "papooses' and "klootens"
just as they appeared and just as
they were half century and less
ago. Then there's the setting; the
wonderful natural yet stage-like set
ting. The Romans prided themselves
upon their great amphitheatre where
their heroes performed feats of skill
and daring, but their playground was
an insignificant affair compared to
the splendid arena of Frontier Days.
Sitting in the commodious grand
stand when one is not engaged in the
thrilling occupation of following the
play, one can find enjoyment, rest
and peace in the beauty of the land
scape that stretches out before ones
vision. This setting furnishes not
only charm for the eye, but it pecu-
liarly fits in with the show itself
for hundreds of years probably the
Indians made this same spot their
camping ground, they appear here as
part of the natural coloring of the
landscape. So it is with the cow
boys, wild horses, and cattle; this
valley is their natural home, it knew
them for.more than a generation and
it appears as a matter of course that
they are here.
Conditions are changing fast; we
are leaving the old order behind and
merging into a new strange, though
fascinating age. The cowboy and
cowgirl, the wild cattle, and the
broncho will soon be no more; in a
very few years it will be impossible
to stage such a show as the Walla
Walla Frontier Days. In the mean
timeit is worth while to cherish this
great red-blooded show. 1t is worth
crossing the continent to see; to
breath for the time the spirit of the
old west, and experience its frank
ness, its goodwill, its freedom, its
manliness and vigor. The children
of today will be telling their grand
children about this wonderful show
in the coming years. when Frontier
Days and Frontier men and women,
and frontier animals shall be no
more.
The dates of this great show are
Sept. 16, II, and IS, 1915.