Buffalo Bill—Col. W.F. Cody.
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUFFALO BILL
(COLONEL W.F. CODY)
ILLUSTRATED BY
N.C. WYETH
1920
by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated
On Murray Hill, New York
Printed in the U.S.A. by
Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
Rahway, N.J.
Dedicated to My Nephew and Niece,
George Cody Goodman, Anna Bond Goodman,
and family.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Buffalo Bill—Col. William F. Cody.Frontispiece
He Shoved a Pistol in the Man's Face and Said: "I'm Calling the Hand That's in Your Hat".
Chief Satanta Passed the Peace-Pipe to General Sherman and Said: "My Great White Brothers".
Winning My Name—"Buffalo Bill".
It Was No Time for Argument. I Fired and Killed Him.
Pursued by Fifteen Bloodthirsty Indians, I Had a Running Fight of Eleven Miles.
A Shower of Arrows Rained on Our Dead Mules from the Closing Circle of Red-Men.
Stage-Coach Driving Was Full of Hair-Raising Adventures.
CHAPTER I
I am about to take the back-trail through the Old West—the West that I knew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under my guidance, saw it for the first time.
Now, going back over the ground, looking at it through the eyes of memory, it will be a still greater pleasure to take with me the many readers of this book. And if, in following me through some of the exciting scenes of the old days, meeting some of the brave men who made its stirring history, and listening to my camp-fire tales of the buffalo, the Indian, the stage-coach and the pony-express, their interest in this vast land of my youth, should be awakened, I should feel richly repaid.
The Indian, tamed, educated and inspired with a taste for white collars and moving-pictures, is as