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Show Ever Watch Buffalo Do High Dive? Martinsdale Mont. Did you ever, without tossing a nickel overboard see a buffalo do a half gainer? Or an elk (not B.P.O.E.) do a swan dive? (Well, you may have the opportunity oppor-tunity of observing these unusual antics of members of the animal kingdom at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition at San Francisco. Believe it or not, in Martinsdale, Montana, there are animals capable of performing these feats, and Courtland DuRand their owner and trainer, wants to take them to Treasure Island. In addition to the diving buffa-los buffa-los and elk which take off from a 50-foot platform, DuRand would exhibit other talented critters. Boots and Suzanne for instance. They are tiny antelope DuRand equips with special pack saddles for hunting trips entailing small game. When DuRand goes after bigger game he uses four elk in- : steak of pack horses. DuRand also has a team of buffalos, trained to the harness which he hitches to a two-wheel cart for cross-country jaunts and team of elk which jogs along with four wheel conveynce. |