| Show Fifty Famous Frontiersmen By ELMO IO SCOTT WATSON I A Modern Modem Knight Errant W HEN LIEN the city of Prescott Ariz decided to erect a me- me memorial morial to the Rough Hough nI Riders ers who ho went ent from Arizona to Cuba In the Sl Cp American war there was wi more morl than one reason renson why that monument should be an equestrIan statue tue of Bucky 0 l For tor In the words of one historian O 0 was as the most man sided man Arizona has t el produced A knight er errant rant of the l century he was as a always I wa s ready rendy to couch a lance for the weak eal and the distressed A Achild child s appeal a woman s tears dis disarmed disarmed armed him at once Yet when the occasion cane cime he could be hard and cold as chilled steel o 1 s was wis a fighting fight heritage e eI I for his father tather was a captain In the lh celebrated Irish Brigade from Penns h linin during the Cn Civil 11 war ar fter graduation from college In ISm Bu Bulky Bucky hy went ent to Phoenix Ariz sod started In ne newspaper spa per work worl Then he lie practiced law got ot Into pol I tics and eventually lally became sheriff sherif of l count counts and In that office onic repeatedly pro proved ed the cold chilled steel quality In his cour counge le and In i dealing with Ith the various bad men who Infested the territory That territory wanted anted to a state So when hen the Spanish Amer AmerIcan Amerlean Amerlean lean Ican war broke out Lucky Luchy was one on of those who thought that Arizona might win statehood If It her men proved themselves eJ worthy orthy In bat battie battie tie and he was as the first r mustered Into service sen Ice Liter Later he be- be became became became came a captain In Roosevelt Rough s RoughRiders Riders At Las 01 O 0 sells stood looking down at nt the body of a n dead Rough nough Rider that had been found by the cultures before his comrades comrade could get to him Colonel Isn t It SS hitman who says of the vultures vulture that they pluck the eyes of princes prince and tear the flesh of kings 1 he hensl ash ed cd Hoose Roosevelt elt who writes Just a week after afterward we e were shielding his own body from these birds That came on the banks of ot the San Juan rh river riser er during the ad against Santiago Bucky was as stroll stroH strollIng strollIng Ing up and down In front of his hi men coolly smoking a cigarette and apparently oblivious of the Spanish bullets singing around him A ser sergeant sergeant sergeant geant begged him to lie down lest he be hit SS Mth Ith a laugh 0 eill 1 re replied replied plied Sergeant the Spanish bul bullet bullet let Isn t ma made e tint that will kill ll met me meThe The next moment a bullet did dill strike him and In the words of or Roosevelt Hoose even een before lie he fell feU his wild and gallant soul had gone out Into the th darkness |
