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Show And Now the Cowgirl Is Declared a Myth A former state ofllcial of Kansas has declared that the cowgirl of fiction fic-tion and tradition is a "mythical creature crea-ture " if ho had merely talked It, perhaps no one would have paid much attention, but he has written it ... reminiscences filed in the archives of the Kansas Historical society at lo-peka. lo-peka. He has taken Iron, the writers writ-ers of stories of the great open spaces a prize treasure, and he has created doubt In the minds of their readerv 4 re we to believe that the splend.d creature who rode like the whirlwind nd ontsbo, Wild HI.. n.vth? Ilow she dashed thrm,g. . ge after page, turning stanipc. ed u. e Into a gentle, lowing herd h h.r "e ,'resence after the cowboys had given up the job and how, when desert waler holes proved dry, she saved the herd from dying of thirst by discovering discover-ing through intuition streams of crystal crys-tal purity! What a glorious figure she was riding at the head of a cowboy cow-boy cavalcade to take vengeance on a band of "rustlers," and how indescribably indescrib-ably brave when she dashed, a two-gun two-gun woman, into a lynching bee and rescued her hero! Are we to believe that all this never happened and that the cowgirl never existed? New York-Sun. York-Sun. I |