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The Educational Influence of Wild West Shows

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 2, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 22.

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The Educational Influence of Wild West Shows

AFTER having witnessed the “James-Younger Wild West” show at South Chicago, recently, five boys attempted to wreck an Erie freight train by piling logs on the track. The engineer stopped the train in time to prevent a wreck, and the boys were arrested and taken to the police station, where they declared that their only motive in the crime was to cause excitement, such as they had seen at the show. Such is an illustration of the kind of educational influence which