![]() But in 1910, boosters and businessmen in Pendleton were planning a to what we would now consider a that September, and they wanted to invite the Indians to town for the events. ![]() The Treaty of 1855 had forcibly removed the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Indians to the reservation, which had only exacerbated long-simmering tensions between the Indians and the white residents of Pendleton. If we attempted it we’d be putting on a night show in the asylum down here.”Īccording to local legend, a handful of men, including a businessman from Pendleton, Oregon, along with a former Indian superintendent, rode out to a council on the nearby home of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) in the summer of 1910. “Put on a nightcap,” the directors answered. The Roundup could entertain the people in the afternoon, but there was nothing for them to do in the evening. Happy Canyon is the result of the overworked condition of the Roundup directors. Charles Wellington Furlong, “The Epic Drama of the West,” 1916 Who have “taken chances,” have risked limb and even life at times in their sports of daring and skill, that you may see how their fathers once struggled in earnest against unequal odds in order to attain the Winning of the West. Then you will feel the stir and the thrill of life of these golden lands of hopes and achievements, where man extends a generous and hospitable welcome to those who cross his trails it is a spectacle which makes you go away with a bigger, finer feeling toward life, and a genuine respect and appreciation for ![]() But to understand, one must look with one’s own eyes on these things. ![]() It is all a chapter taken out of the history of the old chapter which every American with red blood in his veins should read in the real before it passes by and, like the old West, forever disappears on the horizon of time. ![]() The Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show ![]()
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