Life in Silver Lake City is bustling. Main Street is crowded with horses and cabriolets, Indians and cowboys are everywhere, ladies in crinolines stroll sedately, and the sheriff strides importantly. On both sides of the clay-paved street are about fifty small shops and saloons. Hundreds of small details create a complete illusion of the century before last. For example, there is a photo studio where you can be photographed in dresses of that time and even order a photo print on glass, a barbershop, a pharmacy, a post office, a dentist's office, a blacksmith's, a printing house, a hotel, a workshop where saddles are made, a church and a cemetery, and also a jail.
Events in Silver Lake City follow a set routine. At 11 o'clock – ritual Indian dances in the poor quarter of town, at 12 – the appearance of bandits on Main Street and a bank robbery, at 1 PM – a festive show in the main saloon. In the afternoon the program is repeated once more.
The town has many museum-shops and restaurants. There is even a saloon where in the evenings young townswomen dance the cancan, and a cardsharp from a river steamboat performs card tricks. Not far from the main street, wigwams have been pitched. There Indians have found refuge – not actors, but a real family from South Dakota. They dance and introduce park guests to the culture, history, and traditions of the indigenous inhabitants of North America. For the youngest park visitors, several carousels from the beginning of the last century, a playground, and a small zoo have been built. Away from the bustling quarters of the town there are a real horse-breeding farm and a ranch where bulls and bison will be raised.
Each resident of Silver Lake City has found an occupation to their liking. An educated girl from the North, Miss Pumpkin, for example, opened a school and introduces everyone interested to stories about the prairie and the Wild West. One of the most respected citizens is the Reverend O'Neill, who owns the only gold mine in the district. Under his leadership you can try your luck and, if lucky, take home grains of real gold.
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