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Show. He used gunpowder only to entertain. People like Buffalo Bill came to be a part of it. And at the end of the trail, Joe Miller gave everything to his state. Best of all, he left a happy people. •‘Joe is a Westerner to admire. Remember, he never shot a man!” And another story-with-a-moral: “Little ones,” says Cisco, “a long time ago there was a rich Spanish settler near Old Santa Fe who held mortgages on all the ranches. “When he was dying he burned all the mortgages. Everybody was happy. But the people on the land and his greedy sons both fought to keep it. Some of the land is still being fought over. So you see, even in doing good, there’s a right and a wrong way.” With such temperate advice from such a colorful father, it ’ud seem that Cisco’s kids just won’t hardly need that Roy Rogers, no more. Cisco’s favorite Western hero is Joe Miller, of the famous 101 Ranch. “For,” he tells the kids, “Joe, with¬ out shooting someone dead, stopped a fierce war with the Indians. He made both sides see that peace was best. He told the whites, ‘The Indian hurts like yourself and he laughs like your¬ self. Treat him like a brother.’ And both sides prospered. “Joe and his brothers re-erected an Indian trail-marker near Ponca City, Okla., as a tribute to a chief who ‘led his people to civilization and favored the white man’s ways.’ Joe was a life¬ long friend of Chief White Eagle, and was adopted into his tribe. “It was Joe who went to Wash¬ ington and won for the Indians the oil lands that made them rich. Joe also built the wonderful 101 Ranch Cisco's kids are attentive audience as Papa displays skill >with a bull whip. 21