Wild West Circus Theme: "World's Smallest Cowboy...
Joe Hetzler, Monte Vista Stampede, (D.F.P. Co.)"
Real Photo Postcard Photographer: Ralph Russell Doubleday
Ralph R. Doubleday / Doubleday-Foster Photo Company of Miles City, Montana
" World's Smallest Cowboy " performing a Wild West rodeo rope exhibition trick.
Midget Dwarf Cowboy Clown Joe Hetzler ... circus / rodeo clown trick performer
a.k.a. "Little Joe Hetzler" NOTE: From BILLBOARD March 26, 1921:
"Fort Worth, Tex., March 15.—With nearly 100 contestants, among them the top hands of the profession,
the Fort Worth Spring Rodeo, the principal entertainment of the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show
... Chester Byers was in his usual fine form and nosed out ahead of the others in the
fancy roping. Guy Shultz starred in the wild horse race and
... Little Joe Hetzler... supplied the comedy...
... great portions... the diminutive rube.... Little Joe ... in silk hat and togs becoming a horse judge,
with cane, cigar and everything, and sending him out to help in the judging...."
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