The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide PDF Download

Author: Buffalo Bill
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Category : Cowboys
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Author: Buffalo Bill
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318705849
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Pages : 406

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Author: 1846-1917 Buffalo Bill
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359217233
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Author: William F. Cody
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734091942
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Reproduction of the original: The Life of Hon. William F. Cody - Known as Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody

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ISBN: 9781537417752
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"We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment." -Buffalo Bill The life and adventures of Hon. William F. Cody--Buffalo Bill--as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects will prove a valuable contribution to the records of our Western frontier history. While no literary excellence is claimed for the narrative, it has the greater merit of being truthful, and is verified in such a manner that no one can doubt its veracity. The frequent reference to such military men as Generals Sheridan, Carr, Merritt, Crook, Terry, Colonel Royal, and other officers under whom Mr. Cody served as scout and guide at different times and in various sections of the frontier, during the numerous Indian campaigns of the last ten or twelve years, affords ample proof of his genuineness as a thoroughbred scout. There is no humbug or braggadocio about Buffalo Bill. He is known far and wide, and his reputation has been earned honestly and by hard work. By a combination of circumstances he was educated to the life of a plainsman from his youth up; and not the least interesting portion of his career is that of his early life, passed as it was in Kansas during the eventful and troubleous times connected with the settlement of that state. Spending much time in the saddle, while a mere boy he crossed the plains many times in company with bull-trains; on some of these trips he met with thrilling adventures and had several hairbreadth escapes from death at the hands of Indians. Then, for a while, he was dashing over the plains as a pony-express rider. Soon afterwards, mounted on the high seat of an overland stagecoach, he was driving a six-in-hand team. We next hear of him cracking the bull-whacker's whip, and commanding a wagon-train through a wild and dangerous country to the far West. During the civil war he enlisted as a private, and became a scout with the Union army; since the war he has been employed as hunter, trapper, guide, scout and actor. As a buffalo hunter he has no superior; as a trailer of Indians he has no equal. For many years he has taken an active part in all the principal Indian campaigns on the Western frontier, and as a scout and guide he has rendered inestimable services to the various expeditions which he accompanied. CONTENTS: CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD. CHAPTER II. EARLY INFLUENCES. CHAPTER III. BOY DAYS IN KANSAS. CHAPTER IV. YOUTHFUL EXPERIENCES. CHAPTER V. IN BUSINESS. CHAPTER VI. HARD TIMES. CHAPTER VII. ACCIDENTS AND ESCAPES. CHAPTER VIII. ADVENTURES ON THE OVERLAND ROAD. CHAPTER IX. FAST DRIVING. CHAPTER X. QUESTIONABLE PROCEEDINGS. CHAPTER XI. A SOLDIER. CHAPTER XII. A WEDDING. CHAPTER XIII. A MILLIONAIRE. CHAPTER XIV. EARNING A TITLE. CHAPTER XV. CHAMPION BUFFALO KILLER. CHAPTER XVI. A COURIER. CHAPTER XVII. AN APPOINTMENT. CHAPTER XVIII. SCOUTING. CHAPTER XIX. A TOUGH TIME. CHAPTER XX. AN EXCITING CHASE. CHAPTER XXI. A MILITARY EXPEDITION. CHAPTER XXII. A DESPERATE FIGHT. CHAPTER XXIII. ADMINISTERING JUSTICE. CHAPTER XXIV. HUNTING EXPEDITIONS. CHAPTER XXV. HUNTING WITH A GRAND DUKE. CHAPTER XXVI. SIGHT-SEEING. CHAPTER XXVII. HONORS. CHAPTER XXVIII. AN ACTOR. CHAPTER XXIX. STARRING. CHAPTER XXX. A RETURN TO THE PLAINS. CHAPTER XXXI. DANGEROUS WORK. CHAPTER XXXII. CONCLUSION.

Author: William Frederick Cody
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Languages : en
Pages : 365

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Author: William F. Cody
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 9780803232914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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What we know of Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) is more myth than man. Yet the stage persona that took audiences by storm was based on the very real encounters of William F. Cody with the American West. This autobiography, infused with the drama of dime novels and stage melodramas that would transform the author into an American icon, recounts a boy's move to the Kansas territory, where his father hoped to homestead, and his subsequent life on the frontier, following his career from trapper to buffalo hunter to Army scout, guide, and Indian fighter. Written when Cody was thirty-three years old, this life story captures both the hard reality of frontier life and the sensational image to which a boy of the time might aspire: the Indian fights, buffalo hunting, and Pony Express escapades that popular history contributed to the myth-making of Buffalo Bill. It is this movement between the personal and the mythic, plain facts and tall tales, William F. Cody and Buffalo Bill, that gives this autobiography its fascination and its power. Based on the original 1879 edition, this volume provides a new introduction, historical materials, and twenty-six additional images. It reveals both the William F. Cody of personal history and the Buffalo Bill of American mythology--and, finally, the curious reality that partakes of both. For information about the Buffalo Bill Cody archive, visit www.codyarchive.org.

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Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977911216
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Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 - October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators............ William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 - January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 14. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the US Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill's legend began to spread when he was only twenty-three. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and continental Europe. Early life and education Cody was born on February 26, 1846, on a farm just outside Le Claire, Iowa. His father, Isaac Cody, was born on September 5, 1811, in Toronto Township, Upper Canada, now part of Mississauga, Ontario, directly west of Toronto. Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock, Bill's mother, was born about 1817 in New Jersey, near Philadelphia. She moved to Cincinnati to teach school, and there she met and married Isaac. She was a descendant of Josiah Bunting, a Quaker who had settled in Pennsylvania. There is no evidence to indicate Buffalo Bill was raised as a Quaker.In 1847 the couple moved to Ontario, having their son baptized in 1847, as William Cody, at the Dixie Union Chapel in Peel County (present-day Peel Region, of which Mississauga is part), not far from the farm of his father's family. The chapel was built with Cody money, and the land was donated by Philip Cody of Toronto Township. They lived in Ontario for several years. In 1853, Isaac Cody sold his land in rural Scott County, Iowa, for $2000, and the family moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory.In the years before the Civil War, Kansas was overtaken by political and physical conflict over the slavery question. Isaac Cody was against slavery. He was invited to speak at Rively's store, a local trading post where pro-slavery men often held meetings. His antislavery speech so angered the crowd that they threatened to kill him if he didn't step down. A man jumped up and stabbed him twice with a Bowie knife. Rively, the store's owner, rushed Cody to get treatment, but he never fully recovered from his injuries................

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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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