Volume 18 , Issue 36

Sept., 1893 - Probably Used Balloons

It was 21 September 1893, Thursday, page 1, of The Guthrie Daily Leader, out of Guthrie, Oklahoma, reported, "Probably Use Balloons." Some of the Boomers reached Perry in Elven minutes.

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Exactly at noon a party standing in front of the land office at Perry Saturday with watch and telescope took note both of the flight of time and the approach of boomers. Exactly at 12:07 a cloud of dust could be seen arising from the summit of the hills to the southeast along the line of the old trail which served the purpose of Indian traffic in other days and now serves as the route of the stage line between Wharton and Stillwater. The cloud grew larger and soon the figures in it could be distinguished. They were a troop of hard riders beating toward the goal apparently in the first quarter of a race. The speed was tremendous. The horses fairly flew over the ground and the lapse of time between the first sight of the riders and their mad charge upon the prairie was infinitesimal. Bill Dalton's far-famed horse was in the lead with Jim Masterson as rider. It was 12:11 when horse and rider came upon the ground. The next in line of succession was John Martin, a cowboy, whose horse showed no more signs of heat or fatigue than that of Masterson.
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