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-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY—
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The U. S. Cruiser Panthea steamed him out to sea and he was gone a year, seeing no actual fighting, but proving himself, in every way, a worthy representative o f 5 the Harts. Discharged, he worked as a cowboy on a horse ranch in the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, and drove a freighting outfit between Fort Pierre and the Black Hills. Wyoming called him her own star cowboy until 1904 when he entered Bucknell Univei-sity, Lewisburg, Penn., and became star halfback and a few other things on the 'Varsity football team.
lustrations tvith Neal "up." Fox Catcher is one of the highest bred runners and jumpers in the Hart stable. The centre illustration shows the entire Hart family returning from a hunt along one of Staten Island's picturesque boulevards. Neal is the last man on the right. The picture shows Neal's father in the front, and his uncle, Charles Hart, just bach of him.
Meanwhile, back home, the Harts were doing things in their own big way. Season after season they were earning trophies in leading their world famous horses to victory -in Madison Square Garden and on Staten Island. Six horses, owned by the Harts, notably, Sir Roderick, Tycoon, Amherst, Fox Catcher, Richmond and Vulcan, in four successive Madison Square shows, took highest honors. Over on Staten Island at this very minute, in one of the big show places of the island, there are probably collected more silver cups, won for real horse flesh achievements, than in any one home in America. This is the house where Charles Hart, an uncle of Neal Hart, now lives and where Neal's sisters were born before their father sold it to his brother.
To this place Neal Hart returned for the hunts. County fairs and Madison Square shows, winning new laurels each season. Graduating with honors from Bucknell, he became foreman of the Four Bar Ranch, Willow, Wyoming, remaining until 1908 and serving part of that time as a geologist of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. In 1908 he joined the 101 Wild West show as a bucking horse rider and remained three seasons. After that he returned to Wyoming and became successively City Marshall of Manville, Deputy Sheriff and Brand Inspector, secretary and range manager of a big cat{Continued on page 27)