The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-02-13
SAUNDERS In
THE WILD West
Wyoming Newspaper Features
Opinions of The lndepen-
dents Publisher.

Cheyenne Daily Tribune, OF the
staff OF Golfers Weekly, Ill
town for the presentation OF
the prize won by Wyoming for
the greatest per cent of in
crease proportionatcly in votes
cast in the November election
last year. talked about Chcy-
cnne and Wyoming the first
day he landed.
Saunders. who is also an editor
of a weekly paper in Elizabeth City,
y. C., has put some interesting
lights on what the Fastener thinks
he will find out where The West
Is" and his talk follows:
Wyoming stands Sorcly in need
of press agent; you have IL VOL
dcrful country and for all know,
n wealth Of opportunities for i'll
vcStorS and hOmeSeckerS but we
haven't any such idea of Wyoming
back in the East where | come
from.
"Ipon the advice Of misinfOrmed
friends / hauled Il lot of artlc
weight underwear. high top Artic
q wool sweater and Il lot
Of other cold weather accoutrements
two-thirdS of the way across the
continent to fOrtify myself against
the rigors of IL Cheyenne winter.
And here am running around
Cheyenne without IN OvcrcOat en-
iDyimg your balmy Sprimg-likc wealth
or and laughing at the folks Shlv-
cring back home.
Another thing. when | stepped
off the Overland Limited in Chcy-
rnnr Sunday night | expected to be
met by lot Indians and cowboys
luafing around the station. | even
expected coyotes to yclp ut my heels
as | walked OvCr'to the Plains hotel.
But | have been here for two days
and haven't seen un-~In1ian or Il
cowboy yet. was hoping the bell
hops at the Plains had Indian blood
i'm them. but am told they are
only FilipinOS. understand that
Such cowboys and Indians as you
have left only make up for the
benefit OF fool tourists. during the
tourist season LATER in the year.
Il bought some souvenir post card
views of your alleged cowboys and
Indians and sent them back home.
But even The pictures were disap-
pointing: there was one of an m-
dim chief Spotted Tail showing
only Il bust Of the Gentleman.
'Rut surely thought |, l will get
SoncN0f my false ideas of wyoming
corrected at your State museum
More Disappointment. If one re-
lied solely upon your State Museum
for the real dope on Wyoming he
would go away with the impression
that your only industry is Indian
basket weaving and that your only
bids TO fame are bad Indians, train
robbers and hard-bCilcd : ShcriffS
| am told that yOn have wonderful
gold and silver deposits: the mu-
scum showed me only Indian Wam-
pun. | am told that YOU have the
greatest coal mines and oil fields III
America but | saw nothing about
these things in the museum; only
Indian arrow heads. beads and
feathers. They tell me you have
The greatest sheep ranches Oh the
continent and great cattle ranges
but the museum sticks mp only the
kinky hide Of an extinct buffalo.
"You need Il press agent: but
first Of all I'd take days interest
money on the millions Of surplus
yOu have piled up in your State
treasury and spend il in bringing
that State museum down to date
! Leave the frontier stuff there as il
| is but don't let stranger get away
with the idea that there's all there
is to Wyoming"