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In -Ifid.atd-Noted Cowgirl to AppearWith Champions of West* «'■’*1 Western* iFrontier Exhibi-r; iIK |1 2 :tion a Part of HaerenbeckWallace Exhibition,v kH.aii-tor1c2t■illy?fOne of the genuine novelties offered by the Hagenbeck-Wallace C'lrcus this season is its genuine and historically correct Wild West and Cheyenne Frontier Exhibition, participated in by sixty cowboys and cowgirls from the Far v\ esr. When the parents of the present generation were boys an.; girls there lived on the Western plains a great body of hardy heroes who acted as guardians over herds of tattle that roamed over the trackless plains The cow ho vs ore' wT 'fast disappearing before the wake o.f thesettling' and cultivation of the Western plains.ileft n ■.*iminan4teB.!i!I92ii000000 Ionoooono*ototoWhen the Hngenbeek-Wnllnce Circus exhibits in Hammond on Monday, Aug 19, a real wild west show will he staged among the numbers. Assembled for ibis exhibition are the champion ropers,broncho busters, cowboys and cowgirlsfrom Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and far Western Canada. Tlo y represent the exports among thedifferent lines exploited by the cowboyia his work and pastime. The Pony Express.” illustrating how the U S mail wn« delivered in the West before the advent of the railroad, will be oneof the interesting exhibitions. In this the rider dismounts from his horsewhile the animal is running at full speed; runs and mount® a .fresher horse. The animal is trained 1o dash away at full speed without any delay to the rider and ihe mail. Trick riding follows, introducing Miss Elsie St. VrUraln, acknowledged by all Western frontier exhibitions to be the greatest cowgirl of this generation. Miss 8t. Varaln holds medals from the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up, the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Exhibition, the Calgary (Alberta) Wild West Exhibition and the Walla Walla (Wash.) Plainsmen’s Exhibition. At every performance Miss St. Varaln rides a silver-mounted and diamond-studded 110.000 saddle, a prize won last year at the Pendleton Round-Up. While fresh bucking horses are continuallyused in the Wild W’est exhibitions, vet all owners of bad and outlaw horses areInvited to bring them to town circus day, that they be ridden by the Hagen-beck-Wal lace champion cowboys and cowgirls. The wilder the horses are, the better they are liked by tfle wild West performers.The TIagcnbeck-Wallace Shows travel thi« season aboard three special trains, the longest ever used to transport a circus organization. Ther' are in the neighborhood of 1,000 peoplo traveling j along with the show, in addition to 108 * advance men Six hundred draft horse*, j 125 bead of eetfl-footed ring stock, 400KISS EX.SIS ST. VAR,AINIYi*hth50crIrhtHiIt’nto!.VerPIt'lib I I*1i Vii Clt;! StttVi inri.i11! tii f 1i; in tv aI tn wi5 fti\Of6 Ii m offb1 o!st P.fOtrained wild animals and three herds of elephants are a part of the great organization. Twenty-two tents, which cover twelve acres of ground, are used to housa the show in the daytime.The doors of the Hagenbeck zoological paradise are opened daily at 1 and 7 p. m. An operatic concert by Prof. Fred Jewell s band of 4* soloists lasts thirty minutes and precedes the performances, which begin at 2 and 8 p. rn.A three-mile-long gala, golden street parade will be seen at 10 a. m. on the day of the exhibition.tlriIralt;iratrvnr»LEGAL NOTICES.Plt;n«hi m alt;* a?
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Mon, Aug 12, 1918
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