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In 1901, Davidson County was the site of a train accident that destroyed a famous rodeo and almost killed one of the world's best female sharpshooter.
A headline appeared in the Sheldon Mail in 1896 that said:
A poster about the Wild West Show in England on display at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody. On January 10, 1917, the world lost one of the most celebrated men in the West, if not the entire world. In The Worland Grit newspaper, January 12, 1917 this article appeared. Col.W.F. Cody Pa
IT'S now a large, empty field in Dunfermline with no visible signs of the days when it hosted the sport of kings and squeezed in 15,000 seats for the visit of the great American showman, Buffalo Bill. A century ago, the Urquhart Racecourse, west of McKane Park, would have been full of the sound of thundering hooves and cheers as fans and jockeys urged their horse to greater efforts round the track. It's a little-known tale but after discovering the town's nags to riches past, Brian Fraser, a high school Maths and computing teacher from Cairneyhill, got the bit between his teeth and det...