Template:Did you know nominations/Bronco Charlie Miller
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 00:33, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
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Bronco Charlie Miller
- ... that Bronco Charlie Miller, who lived to be 105, claimed to have ridden for the Pony Express at the age of 11? Source: "Bronco Charlie Miller dies at age 105 ... for years Charlie has repeated stories about his early days in the Wild West and how he rode for the pony express at the age of 11" from: "Bronco Charlie Miller dies at 105". Post-Star. 17 January 1955.
- ALT1: ... that elderly showman Bronco Charlie Miller would light matches, held in the mouths of Boy Scouts, using a 20-ft bull whip? Source: "as an old man in the 1930s he entertained crowds of Boy Scouts with his mastery of a twenty-foot-long bullwhip with which he could light matches clenched in the teeth of quivering twelve year olds." from: "Warren, Louis S. (18 December 2007). Buffalo Bill's America. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 342. ISBN 978-0-307-42510-2.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Jarvis-Smith
Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 16:28, 5 August 2022 (UTC).