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COL. ZACK MULHALL,WILD WEST SHOW MAN
DEAD AT 84
One Time Worker on St. Louis Ferry
Won Fame and Fortune as Rancher in Late 80's

Jefferson City Post Tribune - 18 Sep 1931


MULHALL Okla., Sept. 18. -(AP)-
Colonel Zack Mulhall, 84, pioneer Oklahoma cattleman and one-time wild West showman, died at his ranch home near here early today. Mulhall was orphaned at an early age. He attended Notre Dame University and obtained his first jobs working on cattle ferry boats on the St. Louis water front. He came to old Oklahoma territory in 1889 to find the cow ranch he'd dreamed of near the present site of Mulhall. The ranch became his life-long home.

During the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, he entered the Wild West show field. His daughter, Lucille, trouped with him and his show appeared at Madison Square Garden in New York several years. There he took Will Rogers, later to become famous at Oklahoma's cowboy humorist.

Mulhall had much to do with the entertainment provided for Theodore Roosevelt at the first annual rough riders reunion in Oklahoma City in 1900. He staged a wild west show in which Lucille Mulhall, then 16, amazed spectators with roping and riding feats.

When J. C. (Jack) Walton was governor of Oklahoma, Mulhall was an adviser and one of the governor's bodyguard and escort.

The pioneer was credited with making the arrangements whereby Tom Mix, now a film star, and the Oklahoma territory cowboy band led the inaugural parade of President McKinley. Mix was drum major.






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