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Post by scoutshouse on May 2, 2014 15:17:54 GMT -5
Not sure why video didn't embed, just follow the link to youtube. If interested, search google for Lee Martin, bronco.
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Post by scoutshouse on May 2, 2014 15:16:03 GMT -5
We were very shocked to find my Grandfather, Jerome Lee Martin, on YouTube...
He was filmed along with Annie Oakely + a Sioux Ghost Dance and Buffalo Dance, performed by Native American Indians (not sure what tribe, if any)
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Here's the poem he wrote about it:
At the close of the show the next face A representative of Edison made me a case Said Martin I wonder if I could hire To show your stuff before the Black Maria
A bargain was made a date was set At the West Orange Depot there you were met Said Wissard (sic) Edison: I sent for you to ride and rope Before the Edison (movie) Kinetiscope
I just posted a thread to Great Plains about an urban legend "A Piute Belle" and would welcome any interest in that topic - Have a great weekend!
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Post by scoutshouse on May 2, 2014 15:02:32 GMT -5
I hope I'm in the right forum - I just followed another post with Paiute/Shoshone references... I'm hoping to find information or to start a conversation about a character I'm not even sure existed. My Grandfather, Jerome Lee Martin, was a sheriff at one point in Shoshone and drew sketches of him from memory at a much later date, around 1932. As the story goes, there was a man who posed as a "Piute" squaw to evade the law. All I know about him is what is on the sketch, but obviously I've always wondered if anyone has even heard of either the Cisco Kid or Utah Kid who posed as a Paiute squaw... I've included the sketch and a short article written about LM in The Midwest Review C 1920 when he was running for office. (Full-page pdfs converted to jpg aren't loading at 100% and attachments won't upload, even though only 129kb. error says forum has exceeded limit. Any suggestions for how to get clearer images uploaded?) Text from sketches - not sure if the drawings are legible (FYI: it's kind of repetitive!) DESCRIPTION: Very black curly hair Black eyes Dark complexioned Weight 175# prox Age “A Kid” Native American and not a Portuguese as purported. Was the same man who was known also as the Utah Kid and for more than a year posed and passed as an Indian squaw and then made a fade out. "CISCO KID" SKETCH Caption: “The Cisco Kid” sketched from memory "A PIUTE BELLE" SKETCH Caption: One Feather = Cisco Kid – Utah Kid Fade Out. All three one and the same. Three in One A Piute Belle Cisco Kid Utah Kid One and the Same Sketched from Memory Stamped FEB 13 1932 I don't mean to clog this Native American Board with cowboy history - I really only want to find info on "A Piute Belle," but I also wanted to show that LM was a bonafide lawman... There is such a fantastic aspect to the interlacing of personal history from this period and one never knows where sharing new information will lead. Thanks for any interest! and have a great weekend scout
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