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Miss LILLIANT T. SMITH,
THE CALIFORNIA GIRL, AND CHAMPION RIFLE SHOT.

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Was born at Coliville, Mono county, Cal. in the fall of 1871; is, consquently, only past her 14th year. Born in a country where game was plenty, and good marksmanship as highly thought of as excellence in any particular accomplishment in the older localities of our variously constituted country, her childhood was passed amid an atmosphere well calculated to develop that precocious skill that has astonished the Pacific Coast and rendered her famous throughout the land. Horsemanship there being so nearly allied to the cradle -- in fact, having been often carried in babyhood on the pommel of the saddle -- it is little to be wondered at that she commenced horseback riding as soon as she could sit one, and whilst on foot still "a toddler," mounted she was an infantile expert. At six years of age she had a bow-gun and could kill birds readily, and at seven expressed herself as dissatisfied with "dolls," and wanted a "little rifle." When nine years old her father bought her a Ballard rifle, twenty-two calibre, weight seven pounds, (which she uses yet) with which, after a little practice and instruction, she, on her first foray, mounted on her little pony, bagged two cotton-tails, there fack-rabbits, and two quails. From this our her enthusiasm was such, that after her studies were over, she spent her leisure time with horse, dog, and gun, on the surrouding ranges hunting, and generally brining home a plentiful supply of game. On her father accompanying her to a lagoon near the San Joaquin River in Merced county, when ducks were plentiful, he was greatly astonished by her killing forty red-heads and mallards, mostly on the wing. On another occasion when on a camping excursion in Santa Cruz county, hearing her dog bark in a canon, and thinking he had "treed a squirrel, sure," she mounted her mustang, and on her return amazed the campers and surprised her mother by depositing at her feet a very large wildcat that she had shot on a limb of a high redwood tree, hitting it squarely in the heart. The admiring campers on their return proclaimed through publication her remarkable feats and at a party given in her honor christened her the champion "California Huntress." Her fame spread throughout the "Golden State," and her father was induced to present her to the public of San Francisco, where in July, 1881, she gave seven successful receptions at Woodward gardens -- her marvelous accuracy and extreme youth creating the greatest sensation, winning for her a host of admirers and many complimetns from those who, before seeing, had been incredulous. After a short practice at shooting glass-balls thrown from the hand she made a score of 323 succssive shots without a miss, and out of 500 breaking 495.

Miss Lillian, owing to the opportunities in that section, has made her reputation in practical shotting, such as a Turkey shoot at Hollister, San Benito county, in the holidays of 1883, where at 150 yards she killed so many turkeys she was set back to 200 yards, but her dexterity at that distance being equally destructive the managers arranged with her "to drop our and give the boys a chance at the turkeys too." Being invited to a mud-hut shot, at 50 to 175 yards, according to the accessibility of the marshy ground, she, in one-half hour, bagged fifty, receiving a valuable prize. July 4, 1883, at Hollister, distance 30 feet at a swinging bell target, with a one-inch center, she scored 200 bells, with a Ballard rifle, in fifteen minutes and on July 23rd, at Dunn's ranch near San Filipo, she killed six dozen doves in two hours with a rifle. October 25, 1883, at a meeting of the Colusa Gun Club she was induced to try her skill at live pigeons thrown from three plunge traps, with a 10-pound shot gun, 10 gauge, 2 drams powder, 1 ounce shot, and scored ten our of twelve, resulting in the club having the manufacturers at Meriden, Conn., present her as a testimonial, a 12 gauge Parker shot gun. This remarkable little lady has shot successfully, in tournaments with various gun clubs on the Coast, matches with such noted shots as Geo. I. Kingsley, Crittenden Robinson, John Kerrigan, taking two valuable prizes and the special prize given by Philo Jacoby, President of the Schuetzen Rifle Club, San Francisco, March 15, 1885. She will appear daily with the Wild West.

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JIM KID, WYOMING COWBOY.
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On the 17th of July, 1876, at Hat or War Bonnet Creek, W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") fought and killed te Cheyenne Chief, Yellow Hand, in a single-banded encounter, in front of Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. E. A. Carr, the Fifth United States Cavalry, and the chief's band of 800 warriors, and thus scored the first scalp for Custer.

Miss LILLIANT T. SMITH,
THE CALIFORNIA GIRL, AND CHAMPION RIFLE SHOT.

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Was born at Coliville, Mono county, Cal. in the fall of 1871; is, consquently, only past her 14th year. Born in a country where game was plenty, and good marksmanship as highly thought of as excellence in any particular accomplishment in the older localities of our variously constituted country, her childhood was passed amid an atmosphere well calculated to develop that precocious skill that has astonished the Pacific Coast and rendered her famous throughout the land. Horsemanship there being so nearly allied to the cradle -- in fact, having been often carried in babyhood on the pommel of the saddle -- it is little to be wondered at that she commenced horseback riding as soon as she could sit one, and whilst on foot still "a toddler," mounted she was an infantile expert. At six years of age she had a bow-gun and could kill birds readily, and at seven expressed herself as dissatisfied with "dolls," and wanted a "little rifle." When nine years old her father bought her a Ballard rifle, twenty-two calibre, weight seven pounds, (which she uses yet) with which, after a little practice and instruction, she, on her first foray, mounted on her little pony, bagged two cotton-tails, there fack-rabbits, and two quails. From this our her enthusiasm was such, that after her studies were over, she spent her leisure time with horse, dog, and gun, on the surrouding ranges hunting, and generally brining home a plentiful supply of game. On her father accompanying her to a lagoon near the San Joaquin River in Merced county, when ducks were plentiful, he was greatly astonished by her killing forty red-heads and mallards, mostly on the wing. On another occasion when on a camping excursion in Santa Cruz county, hearing her dog bark in a canon, and thinking he had "treed a squirrel, sure," she mounted her mustang, and on her return amazed the campers and surprised her mother by depositing at her feet a very large wildcat that she had shot on a limb of a high redwood tree, hitting it squarely in the heart. The admiring campers on their return proclaimed through publication her remarkable feats and at a party given in her honor christened her the champion "California Huntress." Her fame spread throughout the "Golden State," and her father was induced to present her to the public of San Francisco, where in July, 1881, she gave seven successful receptions at Woodward gardens -- her marvelous accuracy and extreme youth creating the greatest sensation, winning for her a host of admirers and many complimetns from those who, before seeing, had been incredulous. After a short practice at shooting glass-balls thrown from the hand she made a score of 323 succssive shots without a miss, and out of 500 breaking 495.

Miss Lillian, owing to the opportunities in that section, has made her reputation in practical shotting, such as a Turkey shoot at Hollister, San Benito county, in the holidays of 1883, where at 150 yards she killed so many turkeys she was set back to 200 yards, but her dexterity at that distance being equally destructive the managers arranged with her "to drop our and give the boys a chance at the turkeys too." Being invited to a mud-hut shot, at 50 to 175 yards, according to the accessibility of the marshy ground, she, in one-half hour, bagged fifty, receiving a valuable prize. July 4, 1883, at Hollister, distance 30 feet at a swinging bell target, with a one-inch center, she scored 200 bells, with a Ballard rifle, in fifteen minutes and on July 23rd, at Dunn's ranch near San Filipo, she killed six dozen doves in two hours with a rifle. October 25, 1883, at a meeting of the Colusa Gun Club she was induced to try her skill at live pigeons thrown from three plunge traps, with a 10-pound shot gun, 10 gauge, 2 drams powder, 1 ounce shot, and scored ten our of twelve, resulting in the club having the manufacturers at Meriden, Conn., present her as a testimonial, a 12 gauge Parker shot gun. This remarkable little lady has shot successfully, in tournaments with various gun clubs on the Coast, matches with such noted shots as Geo. I. Kingsley, Crittenden Robinson, John Kerrigan, taking two valuable prizes and the special prize given by Philo Jacoby, President of the Schuetzen Rifle Club, San Francisco, March 15, 1885. She will appear daily with the Wild West.

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JIM KID, WYOMING COWBOY.
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On the 17th of July, 1876, at Hat or War Bonnet Creek, W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") fought and killed te Cheyenne Chief, Yellow Hand, in a single-banded encounter, in front of Gen. Wesley Merritt, Gen. E. A. Carr, the Fifth United States Cavalry, and the chief's band of 800 warriors, and thus scored the first scalp for Custer.