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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 00:33, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
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- ... 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).
New enough (created 1 Aug). Long enough by a good margin. Well written and cited. Earwig detected nothing untoward. Hooks are both interesting, short enough and supported by in-line citations. QPQ done. Cbl62 (talk) 17:03, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
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editThis article appears to be written in British English. Is that the most appropriate thing for a topic with strong WP:TIES to the Wild West in the USA? Elizium23 (talk) 00:58, 8 September 2022 (UTC)