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REVIVE DAYS OF WILD WEST
Interstate Fair at Sioux City to Be
Scene of Frolic for Cowboys and Cowgirls
Seeking Prizes

Spirit Lake Beacon, 12 Aug 1915


Cowboys and cowgirls of the range territory west of Sioux City, punchers from the yards, horsemen of acknowledged reputation through the middle west will compete for championships in broncho busting contests, in roping, rough riding and wild horse races during the Interstate Fair, September 20 to 25, inclusive.

The contests will be staged and directed by Miss Lucille Mulhall, the girl ranger and champion steer roper of Oklahoma, who will bring with her from the famous Zach Mulhall ranch cowboys and cowgirls to meet in open contest the riders and ropers of the middle northwest.

Miss Mulhall is a personal friend of Col. Roosevelt. Her father managed the Roosevelt campaign in the southwest and the colonel was the direct cause of Miss Mulhall's enterting the show game. Miss Mulhall won fame by outriding the famous rough rider in a campaign tour of Oklahoma some years ago and directly after that she was starred in various circusses and wild west shows.

The frontier day contests will be staged in the big track, directly in front of the grandstands. Eight to contests will be on the program each afternoon and already the men from the ranges are entering their names for the competitions. For the stands this one feature of the fair promises more thrills than the whole program has afforded in past years.

In the steer bull-dogging contests five cowboys are entered thus far. In these contests the cowboy must single out a Texas long horn from a group, must drive the animal at top speed up the track, must leap from his horse to the horns of the steer and throw the animal, sommersault fashion. Some 100 of the wild long horns will be used in the wild west contests. Fifty wild horses will be corralled and used for the wild horse race, in which the rider must catch his horse, saddle it and ride it a half mile, the first in winning the purse.

Eighteen thousand people gathered for the final frontier day program when the even was held two years ago at the fair grounds as a separate show. Events kept the stands on a anxious seat for four hours. Eight riders narrowly escaped death in the concluding day's program.






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