The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-06-27
MANY MONTANANS
TO VISIT CALGARY
FORTHCOMING STAMPEDE AND
EXHIBITION WILL ATTRACT
MANY FROM THIS STATE
is continuation of famous western
show put on by old stockmen of
Alberta 10 years ago; A gala week
in prospect.


About 10 years ago group of
wealthy stockmen of Alberta, all of
whom were well known in Mon
tana, including George Lane, who
formerly lived at Virginia City
and went to Canada about 35 years
ago and has since become the great
est horse breeder in the world; Pat
Burns, the Armour of western Cam
ada and who has bought thousands
of head of Montana stock; Archie
Mclean, stockman of the border
and several others decided to give
frontier show that the world
talk about. They put 100000 in
pot and gave the pot to Guy
Weedick, who had graduated from
the range into the theatrical pro-
fession and commissioned him to
put on a spectacle that would go
down in history. The result was
the Calgary stampede, which old
time cowmen still love to talk
about.
Forty thousand people attended
the show the first day. Among the
distinguished guests was the Duke of
Connaught, then governor general of
Canada. With him had come his
duchess, and his daughter, the fair
and famous Princess Patricia. 1t had
been arranged for the ducal party to
swing around the circle in western
Canada, to meet the men and women
who had made the Canadian prairie
blossom as the rose, but when Prin-
cess Patricia attended the opening
show she was so impressed with its
romance and glamour that she pur-
suaded her father to abandon his
itinerary So the smaller towns did
not get the opportunity to entertain
the governor general, all because a
young girl, with the blood of the
royal family of England in her veins,
wanted to stay in Calgary and attend
the stampede every day.
The show has since become an an
nual event, and will open this year
on July z, continuing for week, and
because of the interest that is mani
fest in northern Montana, it is pro-
bable that the attendance from this
state will be considerable.
Some of the stunts include 40
horse team from the Bar o. N. ranch,
driven by Slim Moorhouse and haul
ing eight wagon loads of wheat; the
daily street parade, five miles long;
Hudson Bay factors with Red River
carts; OK teams, stage coaches, vet
Grams of the Royal Northwest Mount
ed Police; cowmen and roundup out
fits; wild horses, outlaws, wild cattle,
and every type and character that has
helped to make the west.
There will be amusing wild range
COW milking contests, Indian races,
packing contests, riding of wild
horses and wilder cattle, and one of
he big features will be a large In
liam encampment, and there will be
In old-time cowboy ball, the kind
hat owen Wister wrote about in the
yirginian. The citizens of Calgary
propose to move the hands of the
lock back forty years to re-enact the
Incidents of the old days. The cow
10Y will own Calgary and if he feels
ike riding his bronze right into the
obby of any of the hotels, as he has
one in the past, it will be consid-
red in good form.
The management advises any Mon
anans looking for a good time to be
n Calgary the week of July TIP. IL
folders may be had by writ
ng to e. L. Richardson, general
or Guy Weedick, stampede
manager, Calgary, Alberta.
The Calgary Exhibition, in itself
reat show of the agricultural and
ldustrial development of the west,
III be held at the same time.