Hundreds of Picturesque Characters With the Oklahoma Ranch Company
San Francisco will look like the headquarters of an enormous cattle roundup for the four days beginning
Thursday, August 21, for on that day the Oklahoma Ranch Wild West show comes to this city for performances on
the showgrounds at Market and EIghth streets, both afternoon and evening on each of those dates, and with its hundreds of
cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, broncho "busters," sharpshooters and lariat throwers, gay in their picturesque attire
and dashing about town in the intervals between performances on their prancing cow ponies, they are bound to be
the center of interest on every thoroughfare.
FAMOUS COWBOYS
There will be cowboys from some of the most famous western ranches, with champions from many other great Wild West
gatherings. There will be more than 50 cowgirls, every one of them a daring rider of wild horses from childhood.
There will be scores of Indians, in all the panoply of war bonnets, gay blankets and beaded ornamentation,
accompanied by their squaws and papooses. There will be reckless riders from Cossac land, bull fighters and lariat
throwers from Mexico, and more other strange and curious people than have ever before, it is declared, been seen
in a single street display.
With all this there will be an unusually notable exhibition of fine horses in the gorgeous tableaux section, which serves
to illustrate in a series of living pictures scenes and incidents in the stirring days of the pioneers.
Ten kinds of music will enliven the Thursday morning street parade, and the oldest genuine stage coach in existence
will be driven by one of the most famous of the old time overland mail drivers.
PARADE AS PRELIMINARY
The parade will be preliminary to what is expected to prove one of the most interesting and complete Wild
West exhibitions even seen in this city. A performance of infinite variety is promised. Colonel Zack Mulhall,
the famous Oklahoma rancher and founder of the town of Mulhall, and his equally famous daughters, Lucille and Georgia,
will give a series of remarkable exhibitions with the lariat and illustrate in an exciting way the ranch method of
controlling wild horses.
A big band of cowboys and cowgirls will give a genuine roundup with Texas steers, and incidentally contribute a few
exhilerating experiments in "bronco busting." There will be border drams, in which the Indians will be picturesquely
utilized, and Mexicans and Cossacks will contribute to the general strenuousness of the big show.
As an extra feature of sensational effectiveness there is an auto polo game, with four racing machines and expert players.
The afternoon and evening performances will begin at 2 and 8 o'clock. Tickets, on show days, may be purchased at
S. N. Wood & Co.'s store at Market and Fourth streets at the same price as on the show grounds.