The motion picture film is performing one important artistic public service. It is putting in imperishable form reproductions of the wild riders of the plains, the picturesque cowboy and the treacherous Indian. In a few years all these will have disappeared forever. But reproduced by the camera their reproductions can be called into being upon the screen centuries in the future. Selig has been more than ordinarily successful in his representation of these scenes. This picture contains ail the elements which go to make up a thrilling film. The cowboy, the cattle rustler, the cattle themselves—yes, there they are, quite as they looked to the writer the last time he came up over the old Sante Fe trail, and the great herd stampeded in a thunder storm which was awful in its manifestations, and for three days they were scattered over the prairies. Shortly afterward the trail was abandoned for the more rapidly moving train. This picture brought it all back, and aroused a flood of memories which obscured the years and carried one back among the clashing horns and the thundering herds of the broad prairies. The writer wishes personally to compliment Selig upon the excellence and value of these reproductions. It is the most graphic and beneficial of all ways to write history. - The Moving Picture World, June 25, 1910
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