In 1910, Zintka answered an advertisement and moved to Seattle. Her job lasted only a short time, but another Seattle opportunity opened up. She became the "mascot" for the Nation of the Lakotah. Despite its name, this was a White Man's sporting club. Zintka dressed in buckskin, chaps, beads and moccasins, and earned $100 a month to advance the club. They toured on the Lyceum Vaudeville Circuit, Zintka's first taste of full-blown show business. Zintka later lost her job due to health concerns. She might have also inflicted the members with syphilis, in a strange twist of poetic justice.

In the autumn of that year, Zintka tried once again to reconnect with her South Dakota Nation. She stayed with Felix Crane Pretty Voice and his wife in Cherry Creek, on the Cheyenne River Agency. Felix Crane Pretty Voice had set himself forth legally as Zintka's relative, in order to help her secure her land right in the Sacred Black Hills region. As before, Zintka's forthright ways created offence for Pretty Voice's wife. After a brief love affair with Olney Runs After, Zintka again left her homeland, bound for California.

Zintka's next foray into show business was with Pathé, another vaudeville circuit. In the several performances she worked with, Zintka played bit roles. The leading Indian female roles were always played by White women.

Zintka met and fell in love with Robert (Bob) J. Keith, who rode horses for small-time silent movies. The two were married in Santa Ana in 1912, and had a child, Clyde. Zintka adopted the stage name "Princeton Davis," and found employ in silent movies - again, as the "Indian extra" to leading White actors.

Bob Keith let his alcoholic tendencies hold sway, and Zintka found herself subject to abuse once again. The marriage turned sour, and Zintka fled with Clyde. She joined up with America's largest show at the time - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, joined with the Sells-Floto Circus for a nationwide tour. She once again wore her "loudrags." A part of Buffalo Bill's show included the Western Battles with the First Nations. One can imagine Zintka as an Indian maiden, paid to depict the horrors laid upon her people - perhaps even the Massacre at Wounded Knee itself.

While in the Wild West Show, Zintka met Ernest Cornelius (Dick) Allen, a calliope player. They fell in love, and in the spring of 1915, were married. They soon left the circus, and Zintka had another child with Dick. The couple moved to the Barbary Coast region of San Francisco, had a baby together, and worked up a Vaudeville act. They performed in theatres, saloons, and dance halls - Dick with a lariat act, and Zintka, as ever, the "token Indian girl."