The efforts of the gentlemen who compose the working members of the executive committee are pushing their work to completion at a rapid rate – making outward signs of an inward determination to hold a tournament here for the benefit of the monumental society beyond the shadow of a doubt. By this day-week the grounds will be enclosed, circular fence, eleven hundred feet long and seven feet high; the track completed; the stand built, and everything placed in “ship shape” order. Persons who propose riding for the prizes should lose no time in informing the secretary of the fact. No one will be allowed to practice on the ground who does not enter his name as a knight. Put this in your pipe and smoke it!!

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 18 Aug. 1866, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.