The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26
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 a 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 n who has bought thousands
of head of Montana stock; Archie
Mclean, stockman of the border
and several others decided to give
a frontier show that the world
talk about. They put 100000 in
a 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
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
/. nr, ~ "a. 4hA af-a1a II, vvncfaro
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-
her father to abandon his
itinerary. So the smaller towns did
get the opportunity to entertain
he governor general, all because a
young girl, with the blood of the
'oyal family of England in her veins,
to stay in Calgary and attend
he stampede every day.
The show has since become an an
lual event, and will open this year
IN July Z, continuing for a week, and
because of the interest hat is mani
est in northern Montana, it is pro-
that the attendance from this
tate will be considerable.
Some of the stunts include a 40
lorse team from the Bar o. N. ranch,
Iriven by Slim Moorhouse and haul
ng eight wagon loads of wheat; the
laily street parade, five miles long;
Hudson Bay factors with Red River
,arts; OK teams, stage coaches, vet
of the Royal Northwest Mount
ID Police; cowmen and roundup out
its; wild horses, outlaws, wild cattle,
md every type and character that has
lelped to make the west.
There will be amusing wild range
milking contests, Indian races,
contests, riding of wild
Iorses and wilder cattle, and one Of
he big features will be a large In
ian encampment, and there will be
old-time cowboy ball, the kind
hat Owen Wister wrote about in the
Tirginian. The citizens Of Calgary
to move the hands of the
lock back forty years to %re-enact the
Incidents of the old days. The cow
oy will own Calgary and if he feels
Ike riding his bronc right into the
)bby 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
mans looking for a good time to be
1 Calgary the week of July 7-12. IL
lstrated folders may be had by writ
lg to E. L. Richardson, general
lanager, or Guy Weedick, stampede
Ianager, Calgary, Alberta.
The Calgary Exhibition, in itself a.
reat show of the agricultural and
ldustrial development of the west,
il be held at the same time.