Raynors HCA 2019-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2019
Very rare and wonderful 8-1/2 x12” two-side black and white broadsheet circular advertising “Kit Carson’s Buffalo Ranch Wild West and Congress of World’s Greatest Rough Riders” show. Promotes trained wild animals and grand reenactment of the Battle of Wounded Knee. Complimentary ticket admits one lady to the show. Show was only on the road for about 4 years before creditors shut it down, a brief historical window. nd., circa 1910 fine condition. Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show was successor to the Jones Bros. Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show. After the owner of Jones was kicked by a horse and killed in 1909, the show was put on the block and sold to Thomas Wiedemann Renamed the "Kit Carson Buffalo Ranch Wild West Show," it was actually a combination circus and wild west show, and the performance was presented in a tent rather than the usual canvas canopy and open air arena type performance used by most wild west shows. In 1912 the Kit Carson show was on 17 cars, 1 advance car, 5 stocks, 5 coaches, and 6 flats. After the 1913 season the show wintered in Birmingham, Alabama, and opened the 1914 season in the South. The Kit Carson show had the reputation of being a rough and tumble grift outfit, with plenty of "hey rubes" fights when the grifters were working. Some sources say that the strong grift was what finally closed the show. On Friday, October 23, 1914 at Harlan, Kentucky, the show was shot out of town by irate locals, and the next day, Oct. 24 at Barboursville, Kentucky the show halted. Creditors had stepped into the picture and closed the show. The Kit Carson property was sold off piecemeal at very low prices.
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