Saturday, October 20, 2007

The Ranch Herd circa 1925


Scan000010347, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Ferris "Whitey" Cline with "Babe", "Louie", "Carrie", "Joe" and "Jean".

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buckles, I alway's thought the 101 Wild West Show was a "cowboy and Indian format". Was it a combination of circus and wild west show? Did they have other animal act's? Thanks Wade Burck

Buckles said...

Those shows were pretty open-ended.
They had Cossack riders, Zuaves doing military drills, Arabic riders, etc.
The elephants were the most unlikely but even Buffalo Bill had a few, possibly because they added a lot to the daily street parade.

Anonymous said...

Its interesting that long time animal trainer, Art Eldridge, was part of the shows executive management and would train elephants on shows including ringling. buckles would know more about his carerr. how about it.

David said...

I've really enjoyed the blog everyday since being introduced to it a few weeks ago. This is the first I knew the old Wild West Shows had elephants.