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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1910
Page
12
The piece reflects on Frontier Days and looming political shifts in Wyoming. It notes pessimism about Taft and Roosevelt, hints at upcoming elections, and predicts a Democratic shift in county offices. It cites Frontier Days events, the Frontiers committee, Senator Warren, and Judge Carey in a broad partisan context.
Frontier Days drew twenty five thousand attendees while Denver Post editor George Creel complained the event violated propriety. The Frontier committee did not consult Creel about the program or recognize him as a prominent figure, triggering discontent in Cheyenne’s view of the celebration.
The Denver Post faced criticism for misrepresentation in a Creel report with two columns devoted to a personal agenda of an employee. The Cheyenne paper enjoys strong local support, contrasting with the Post’s perceived misstep and waning influence. The day’s male race coverage challenges earlier assumptions about participants.
Cheyenne residents hail Dr Andrew W Barber as the man behind Colonel Theodore Roosevelt’s two day visit. His energy tact and diplomacy organized Frontier committee events and hospitality. Roosevelt himself praised Barber saying I have enjoyed myself indicating the physician’s fame extends beyond Wyoming.
An editorial notes Cheyenne's Frontier Days drew extraordinary press coverage with about 100000 words telegraphed to newspapers nationwide. It compares this publicity to Taft’s Payne Aldrich tariff speech, showing Cheyenne’s fame grew from Roosevelts visit and the wild western show.
A fragment recalls a banquet attended by a guest known as Bohemian Mina. The line hints at social circle and language play without clear names or date. The tone suggests a vivid, intimate recollection from a past event.
The Colonels praise the frontier exhibition showing grit and valor. Ringing anecdotes describe injuries and recoveries in a rodeo, including Joella Trin’s win despite facial marks and Buffalo Vernon bulldogging with a broken wrist. Allen, Hartsell, and La Force ride as veteran companions.
A guest drank rice wine and made faces at two half grown Chinese girls, ages about fourteen or fifteen, scaring them into silence. An accompanying Chinese merchant, calm and dignified, warned that the man’s mind might be affected. The merchant later revealed he was a Yale graduate.
A fragmentary poem paints sunset flames and bracing pine winds as night swallows a jagged ridge. Whitetwanged peaks loom and a wolf cry pierces the dark while distant towns fade from the scene. The verse contrasts lonely nature with worldly strife and hints at a window shade scene from Sherman Ca.
Chief Justice C. N. Potter leads a list including Lucios F. Curtias Ro S. Vantageel Winthtrop Chhaiet Wee Deming William Bydowland and J. H. Walton in a historical court docket.
The article recounts Colonel Roosevelt addressing a frontier gathering before leaving in a convoy to the city. Governor Bryant Brooks and Mayor Peter S. Cook joined the country dinner, along with Senator F. B. Warren and others.
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