Max Brand

Trailin'! Max Brand

All through the exhibition the two sat unmoved; yet on the whole it was the bestWild West show that ever stirred sawdust in Madison Square Garden and it broughtthunders of applause from the crowded house. Even if the performance could notstir these two, at least the throng of spectators should have drawn them, for allNew York was there, from the richest to the poorest; neither the combinedaudiences of a seven-day race, a prize-fight, or a community singing festival wouldmake such a cosmopolitan assembly. All Manhattan came to look at the men who had lived and fought and conqueredunder the limitless skies of the Far West, free men, wild men-one of their shrillwhoops banished distance and brought the mountain desert into the very heart ofthe unromantic East. Nevertheless from all these thrills these two men remainedimmune.