The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-22
At Camp Lewis Remount Station You
Get Fascinating Glimpse of Old Vest
Buckaroos from Montana,
With Wild and Woolly
Names, Busy Training
5000 Horses for Duty in
Sammies' Army,

at Remount depot at Camp
Lewis.
lie has 5000 raw recruits
here now and Is assembling
the finest obtainable speci-
mems OF the Great American
cowboy to teach the horses
the things that a fOu-fOOted
warrior must know.
Remount is little strip, a mile
long and perhaps half mile wide
that might have been lifted from
wild west novel.
Embroidered high-topped, Gu
ban-heeled shoes, gorgeous shirts
and more gorgeous bad language
are features Of the place. The
hundred odd horsemen who are
here now have scorned uniforms
and trot around in the garb of
their native heath, which for the
most part seems to consist of as
much rawhide and hair and col
ored silk as the individual can
conveniently tote.
Six-shooters, except for non
commissioned officers, are barred,
but most of the men still pack
the empty holster where once
nestled a Colts.
Buffalo Bill Names.
The muster roll of the depot
would read like Buffalo Bill
program If the everyday names of
the men were included in it.
First comes @, M. Sergeant Bill
Richardson, for 20 years stock in
spector of Montana. Tin passing
"a stock inspector is a sheriff
whose duty is to arrest horse and
cattle thieves.)
The army pay roll may have
Richardson down as sergeant, but
to the punchers he is Boss Bill. F."
Wild Bill of Miles City is a
right hand man of Richardson.
His real name is w. A. Bement.
Powder River Big Enough, who
scorns the simple name his moth
er gave him-Frank Riggle; Crow
Creek Johnson, who used to have
Charles j. for a handle, and Car
sey Crosby are all at Remount.
Crosby once had another name,
too, but he lost 1t when he moved
from Carson City and became
Carsey.
Remount also boasts of its cook
-sFrank Bulger, the best round
up cook in the west, according to
his mates.
"Softest job I ever had"
said Wild Bill yesterday with
a smile on his face like that
Of a kitten tapping milk. 1--WE
eats regular and we sleeps
regular, and we only works
eight hours per day."
But even with this galaxy OF
equestrian stars, Capt. J. w. Jack
son, commanding Remount, is not
satisfied.
81 wanted the best horsemen in
the west" he said, "and SO / have
written to the commercial organi-
cations in the horse counties ask
ing them to make up a pot to sup
port the wives and families OF
their best. riders and thus release
the men for duty here"
Capt. Jackson won't tell the
names of the men he has sent for,
but 1t is rumored that their names
will include almost every we'll
known rider In the country.
Cures En- Gently.
While there are plenty of buck
aroos in the depot, buckarooing is
strictly taboo.
1.-THE boys would like to awful
WE'LL" explained Boss Bill, but
we have to break bosses here for
officers that never seen boss ex-
cept between the shafts. II we
allows the boys to make 'em
buck, they'll lose their disposi-
lions and throw some of them Of
| ficers on their heads. Hence we
cures 'em quickly and gently as
we can"
But for all of that, there
is plenty of action I'm the big
circular "bull pens'' where
the animals are broken.
Many of the horses are
out-and-out slackers and have
conscientious scruples against
learning how to fight, and as
n result there is many ~
tongh battle 'twixt horse and
rider in the pens.
The pens, six in number, are
great inverted truncated cones
with floor diameter of perhaps
80 feet. The earth floors of the
pens are heavily strewn with
sawdust to protect the rider
should he be thrown.
And Mules, Too
Just at present the chief work
at Remount is the classifying of
the animals. The heaviest Of
them will be assigned to the light
artillery batteries here and the
lighter horses to the cavalry COM
panies and as officers mounts.
There are mules here, too
1900 of them. Attic there. is
some talk in the barracks of Civ
ing them a short course in voice
culture as is done in Europe, thus
far their vocal cords have not
been cut, and accordingly there
is music in the air" near their
stalls.
The mules are being broken for
wagon and ammunition train uses.
The wagon train mules are broken
as lead mules and Wheel
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