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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1958.
HI-HO! I'M
OFF TO A
DUDE RANCH
Golden Canyon Dude Runch.
WHILE I was packing to leave the Old West a package arrived from Dodge City, It contained
a silver badge, star shaped, and bore the inscrip- tion: "Don iddon, L.D.M. Marshal of Dodge City." The L.D.M. menns London Daily Mail,
Now, being made a marshal of Drige is not quite the sume as being a marshal of the French Army and considerably short of being a field-marshal in the British Army.
What
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WHERE THE LITTLE
OLD COW-PONIES
SHOW HOW
TO HANDLE ALL
THOSE
PLAYTIME COWBOYS
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HOW WILD
IS THE WILD
WEST?
-By DON IDDON-
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cowpokes such I met in Oklahoma, and Kansas.
wants
The real cowpuncher no part of the dude ranch, although there are a few excep- tions.
The elite of the wranglers prefer the horses to the cus- tomers. "Adude horse has to put up with more than phy ther home in the world, includ- In those in the ballrings. He's Fot know all types, from fat fools from Wall Street to le children and you can throw in a few dizzy dumes for good mcnsure. You know what makes the best dude house? Why, an the old cow-pony. You bel, little old cow-pony can handte
them all."
NO SIGN
something better.
something more
Check these features !
Then look at the prices I
Original Tecumseh Com-
pressor.
THE wrangler is worth 100 Sliding stainless steel
dollars a week and keep- inetdentally, just about twice
Kangas cowhands
THE
what
the
KOL
The success of
ranch shows there
in the West is dialnishing.
believe it to be growing.
'shelves.
the dude Ranco thermostatic control. Is no sign
that this American absorption Stainless steel freezer,
Ί
First class finish.
The cowboy is the master
a month,
MOD. 150L (5 cu. ft.) $945
Occupies minimum floor.
space.
Inner walls plastic
enamelled.
Self-closing door.
Patentod castor mounting -can be moved with two fingers.
Handle with lock and key.
MOD. 200L (7 cu. ft.) $1,160
See it to-day in the Alexandra Arcade!
Sola Agents... fagana 423-9. Ice House Street, Hongkong. Telo:-27781 Purchase Terms to suit YOUR Convenience
Rymbol of hundred per cent Cost of current $2 to $3 the mol on
Americanism and hundreds of But it is something, of 1 aut fura, raw
1housands of American males rank Wyatt Earp, whin was rauge.
The most famous dude in
My wrangler has to take a lot are making themselves in his thelr never a full marshal.
vertibles, shop, and....firt with trails, he is the host, guide, pro- genuine the America is
and the man of backchat from people who Image at least during duties RD with
Itelor, diplomat, old friend, the dudes.
ride too vacation. honour don't know,, and Latchs Beebe, in
1 vold these places as I who makes a muccess or failure drink too much and
Hle. They know it all, Bul It is a curious phenomenon, the current alive marshal, when I first met when he was
one to sneer nt, 1 sup- sald: "You the girts, single on the loose, but not House,
a a columnist on the New York once slayed in such a mantrap out of a dude ranch. who Wi
My wrangler Lucius, who, before and have hardly got over police
and rahl-Tribinue. officer
know the old saying. The main are more of a nuslance to the pose I have seen more of the than he dudes. West during the past two weeks wrangling wranglers from the graduated
Federal typically, went to both Harvard the experience,
The dude ranches of Wyom- difference between was the salon and Bureau of Investigation, has not and Yale,
to the because of dudes and cattle is that cats Brought up on Westerns, they than ever before. I love the In any case, would a salon exqulalte or Manhattan, ing apprul
handle because see themselves in the arms of a West. Lo informed me.
marshal of Dodge a must elegant man at the the vast splitude of the State, are easier fashionable bars, the first nights, but Wyoming is between sea they ain't payin' for the privi- cowboy who turns out to have a brand new
willion dollars back East and City say diferent? But he sons. California I considered, legs."
diepping in I hadn't heard the saying, can't wait to marry them. Few
THE END EXPECT the badge will help the exclusive parties.
wranglers are honest to earth to dx parking tickets and en- decided the is a wealthy man) but I am always
Hollywood art but I saw what he meant. le me to subxlue any gunmen: to go West and he has taken and out of
and a sort of Beverly Hills so thought I'd not that I have seen any in the to the stetson
now start the trek enst and drop in Jong journey which has taken Super-sheriff dress and
edits in Virgin ut likely prospect,
The literature from me to 11 States and covered publishes and
the City, Nevada, a famous news- 0,000 miles,
the Territorial Enter travel agents made me shudder. I also received a letter from paper,
Podner. Ridin' hy. Which Mark Twain "Howdy,
Always the South-West Milk Producers' pelse, on
Join our Western gang. Association, whose legend is: used to work.
I saw Lucius and his partner friendly and informat. "All that we have the owe to
Charles Clegg in Virginia City be a dud, be a dude. udders."
Laucius partes everywhere. In winding-up the Western and they are thriving. Peries on a dudle ranch, but I has a private gilt and plush rail- for less than the best.
Have fun chum," etc. have given a felitious sine to way car, two Rolls-Royces, one Vulley, Bit's Bridle. Round-up
of them a imousine, the other Ranch. the the ranch und riniited
Romance for lonely girls or leek maroon-and-yellow Incale because I want to write "
moontl rictes were frankly without getting anyone amoris model, in his garnite on a single men, swimming pools,
hill which once spouted silver in archery, Into trouble,
Actually the duda real rivers and helped to finance the also offered. frienda on the My
American Civit War and build ranches which I visited turned ranches Birdi In Dodge
thun I out to be less vulgar San Francisco. Wichita had warned
Imagined.
The one I am staying at Is 15 must
Only reasonable,
"Dude varches are as phurtey
nucl
nes
as a three-dollar bill (there is
United States such
ur-
סוג
rency) and you will be as out
PHONEY
Don't
Parties, Why settle
Hidden
VIRGINIA CITY is utterly un- deilars a day for private room
like Dodge Cily. There is of place as a mick-pail under hardly anything but saloons: and bath, three meals, and as
n búll. You have seen ranches The Bucket of Blood, The Buch
horse-riding as I want.
and ranches-don't Au for the Suicide Table, The Crystal Bar,. There, is a swimming pool, a Hollywood stuff."
The Saidu Saloon.
But in a way the dude ranch hups Is the phoney (there are hundreds scattered but I like it. across the country) is plain proof of the grip the West has the on the American nation.
lave
a
trout stream, and the surround- This, per- ing country is green and lovely.
Wrst....
TOLERABLE
The dudes abound and Renu, divarer and gambling capital unlif Las Vegas overtook O, glyen luck and not too Pot-bellied business men, who it is only half an hour's drive Impressive a crowd of city
been
along west never
of oway.
winding road prople trying to be at home Chicago, dress themselves in through the sun-baked sierras. on the range, day or two as u
The outskirts of Reno provide dudo can bo tolerable. chaps, check shirt, 'kerchief and
are nice anyway, stelson, pay 20 dollars a day to a special sort of dude ranch hornes
well-behaved. alt on a 500 dollar saddle und place where women, waiting out very dream
that they are back in their six weeks' residence re wouldn't, or couldn't throw the herole past, the Old West, quirement before getting their old woman of 80. the wild and woolly West.
The
and
They
quickie divorce, ride, play cards, The most important member the dudes and cow- of a dude ranch is the dude They are cowboy countered, fint with: spurious and rather ludicrous, hoys, gossip, drink, swim, Hirt wrangler or dude jingler. He Iends his pariles out on the with no resemblance to the taci- with the dudes drive their con-
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