The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-17

Full many n flower is born to blush
unseen
And waste its fragrance on the
desert air.
Full. many man hath drawn an
other queen,
And pulled a sweetcncd jack pot
from the air.
Dad Lands Cowhoy.)
Life was free and easy back IN
the 'S0's in the famous Bad Lands
cattle country. Copies of the Bad
Lands Cowboy, weekly newspaper es-
tablished January 20. 1885. at Medora
reveal IA frontier community unlike
that df any other in North Dakota.
Photostat copies of the newspaper,
have been placed in the State His
torical society library by the Roosc-
welt Memorial association.
Advertisements bespeak the i'm
portance of the cattle industry, with
Il score of cattle owners brand ad-
vertised in each issue. The "pcr-
sOnals" reveal the community as a
meeting place for men from distan.
cities and climes. Other items dis
close the many problems met by the
cattle men in the early days.
The projects of the Marquis de
Mores, French nobleman, who plan
ned to build great packing houses
at Medora are touched upon. In the
same column, the departure Of Bob"
Roberts, for his ancestral home ip
Wales. the retiir:i of Levi Doffen-
bach to Germany to claim a large
fortune, and the return Of numerous
other adventures to Chicago and
New York are chronicled.
Theodore Roosevelt, then ranchng
n the Bad Lands. found the First
,age" early in life, the Bad Lands
,owboy reveals. His announcement
'alling meeting of cattlemcn is
0und in one issue and in other it
S reported that "'Bad Man Finni-
.an is serving time in the Bismarck
for stealing Theodore
tooscvelts boat"
MedOra ls Defended.
The conclusion of a social item
oncerning u dance to the effect that |
nothing occurred to mar the pleas
re of the OCCASION" the bold type
sed by the Golden Gun Armory of
dickinson in advertising "sxs shoot j
rs" and the bid of the senate bar
hat "the genial Jim is in constant !
ttendance" gives an impression
which the publisher of the Bad Lands !,
'owboy, A. T. Packard, seemed anxi- |
us to correct in the same issues Of
he paper when he wrote:
although Medora has never been
he scene. in spite Of all reports %
he contrary, of six-shooter row
mOng cowboys, we cannot help but
DIN with other cattle papers in urg-
ng the necessity of discarding the
ix-shooters while in town. On the
ange, one sometimes is needed. but
NJ town there never is any use for
hem. To carry six-shooter should
e "A custom more honored in the
'reach than observance A, deter
mined and united movement is being
made among southern cattle men to
top the custom, and northern men
ire falling into line. The six-shOot
r is the one thing that gives cow
'oys a bad name and we hope its
lays are numbered"
The Bad Lands Cowboy was a con-
istent booster for the. community.
l careful enumeration, in 1885, re-
'ealed 25l citizens in Medora, it said,
# which las were men, 80 women
md 66 children. and in addition
here was recorded floating popu-
atian Of between so and 100 working
nen. Among the booster stories was
that the Medora stage
lad smashed all records between Me-
lora and Deadwood, making the time
n 80 hours and five minutes. "This
ime has never before been dreamed
IT," the article added.
The copies of the paper were en-
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