Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-26
TELEPHONE NUMBER NINE
NEBRASKA TO HAVE BIG CELEBRATION

The West is to have a real Buffalo Bill celebration this
summer. North Platte, Nebraska is to be the scene of the
big event in July, and the occasion is the fiftieth anniv-
ersary OF Buffalo Bills first roundup in the cattle coun-
try. In writing of the coming affair in the current issue
of the National Republic, Miss Lucy Salamanca says in
part:
''The days of laundering buffalo hoofs; of savage paint
ed faces peering from ambush; of fleet-footed ponies,
their riders leaning forward in the wind, pounding a-
ross the trail of the Pony Express;' the days of great,
numbering prairie schooners and slow-moving wagon
trains; the days, in short, of that bold, fearless, buster
ing, manly, beloved and picturesque hero of the plains,
the idol of every American schoolboy-Buffalo Bill-are
to live again. Not IN theatrical review are they to strut
~artlficaly across a stage, but across the open prairie in
a cloud OF dust these survivors of a thrilling, glorious
past will ride to re-enact the stirring scenes of another.
day. Cowboys, cowgirls, tribes of Indians, with the lusty
yells and whoopings of their kind, will show the world
what real riding is like in the land of broncho busters.
They will throw their steers, break their ponies, sing
their songs while remnants OF a DISTINGUISHING race OF
redskins will circle in ceremonial dance about their an
cestral campfires. Prairie schOoners will appear on the
horizons rim; there will be attacks and 'scalpings' and
the burning Of the train. The Golden West will pay hom-
age to the last OF its great ~scouts-Buffalo Bill page
antry, ceremonials, and contests for four days, beginning
July q, in the very heart of that country that best knew
and loved him, North Platte, Nebraska. And in prepara-
ton of the fiftieth anniversary of the first Buffalo Bill
roundup in his home town, citizens of North Platte, busi-
ness men of the West, statesmen, citizens from every cor
ner of the country are planning to make the event OF
tremendous historical Importance, reproducing faithfully
the trials and triumphs of h%igh-minded courage of those
pioneers who made today's West possible and in the face
of unutterable odds opened up a wilderness of homes and
commerce.
''North Platte, as the town where Buffalo Bill estab-
lished his first permanent ranch, the town where his
children were born and raised and went to school; and
the town where the "Great Wild West Show that was
to take the American frontier across the Atlantic was
conceived and first staged, is to be the scene of the thrill
ling spectacle. 1t is very fitting that this Nebraska city
should be the scene of the anniversary event, for Lincoln
County, in which it is situated, earned its right to the
early pioneers long before Buffalo Bill came upon the
scene. More than a hundred years ago five covered wag-
ons made their way across Lincoln County on their jour-
ney up the Platte River, and in turn there followed cara
vans of trappers, soldiers, gold seekers Of '49 and in
latter years the cattlemen. The California Trail, the Nor.
mon Trail, the Oregon Trail and the Overland Trail all
cross Lincoln County, and it was the scene of Indian bat
ties, border warfare, frontier outlawry, trapping and
hunting in those days when the West was truly wild and
woody and a man had to be quick ON the draw for his
own protection"
Gas driver of a stagecoach along the Overland Trail
after the war and as scout for Uncle Sam between Fort
Ellsworth and Fort Fletcher, Will Cody lived a life
fraught with excitement and danger. Many interesting
events in those. days shaped his career as a great scout,
but perhaps the most interesting part of his career was
that during which he earned his s~obriquet of Buffalo
Bill"
The Russians and Japs talk so much about what they
are going to do over in Manchuria that we are beginning
to doubt whether there will be any real fight.
Five Chicago hotels went into bankruptcy recently. Too
bad they couldn't hold out until the Republican and Dem
ucratic national conventions.