Category: Biographies
Half a century or less ago, the people then active in the world were unable to move from place to place more rapidly than in the days before the Christian era. The fickle winds drove ships out of their course and baffled their efforts to hold on their way to their destination....
To gain great local and national fame as a plains celebrity in the days of old was not an easy task; rather one of the most competitive struggles that a young man could possibly...
26. CHAPTER XXVI.This man of many parts, this unique exemplification of the possibilities of human intellectual and physical development and progress, had now passed through successive, and with...
4. CHAPTER IV.Many customs and habits, by reason of their peculiar surroundings and requirements, have become necessities, and, indeed, second nature to some people; while to others, whose ob...
28. CHAPTER XXVIII.After peace was restored Buffalo Bill secured Government authority and selected a band of Indians--composed equally of the “active friendly,” headed by Chiefs Long Wolf, No Neck...
5. CHAPTER V.To Indians at peace, and with food in plenty, the winter camp is their home. After the varying excitements, the successes and vicissitudes, the constant labors of many months, t...
2. CHAPTER II.“The success of every expedition against Indians depends, to a degree, on the skill, fidelity, and intelligence of the men employed as scouts and guides, for not only is the com...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.While in the midst of extensive preparations for their opening, the proprietors of the Wild West received an intimation that the ex-premier, the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M. P.,...
20. CHAPTER XX.You bet I know him, pardner, he ain’t no circus fraud, He’s Western born and Western bred, if he has been late abroad. I knew him in the days way back, beyond Missouri’s flow, W...
22. CHAPTER XXII.The Wild West visited many of the principal cities of this country, played a winter season in New Orleans, a summer season at Staten Island, and the winter of 1886-87 in Madison...
12. CHAPTER XII.The glamour and pageantry of the crusaders in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were revived in the fifteenth and sixteenth by Columbus, Cortez, and Pizarro, and repeated in th...
24. CHAPTER XXIV.“By command of her majesty the queen.”--It must be understood that the queen never requests, desires, or invites even her own prime minister, to her own dinner-tables, but “comm...
7. CHAPTER VII.In the spring of 1868, at the outbreak of the violent Indian war, General Sheridan, from his headquarters at Hays City, dispatched Cody as guide and scout to Captain Parker at F...
21. CHAPTER XXI.In olden times, when a great leader of an “army with banners” was about to depart for a foreign country, bent on conquest, great was the outpouring of the people; loud sounded t...
10. CHAPTER X.Like all boys Bill had a sweetheart with whom he was “dead in love,” in a juvenile way, of course. He had a rival of whom he was terribly jealous. One day, attacked by his rival...
15. CHAPTER XV.Receiving an invitation from an old friend named Dave Harrington to accompany him on a trapping expedition up the Republican River, Buffalo Bill gladly accepted it, and prepared...
1. CHAPTER I.Half a century or less ago, the people then active in the world were unable to move from place to place more rapidly than in the days before the Christian era. The fickle winds...
3. CHAPTER III.It is a romance interwoven with deeds of daring, nerve, and big-heartedness that will survive long after civilization has stamped out every need for the brave men who have been...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Having given up the real estate business Buffalo Bill received a proposition from the Goddard Brothers, who had contracted to furnish subsistence for thousands of construction e...
6. CHAPTER VI.Every custom, vocation, or study that has for its object the protection of home, self, or one’s just rights, the defense of the weak or the protection of the innocent, is justly...
25. CHAPTER XXV.From London the Wild West visited Birmingham, where it occupied the Aston Lower Grounds; thence to Manchester--“Cottonopolis,” as it is endearingly called by its inhabitants--wh...
8. CHAPTER VIII.With the best compliments of one who in 1886 was guided by him up the Republican, then occupied by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes as their ancestral hunting-grounds; now transforme...
9. CHAPTER IX.Having in the preceding pages given the scenes, conditions, surroundings, and types of characters that made up the theater of action in which Buffalo Bill bore so prominent a pa...
27. CHAPTER XXVII.Leaving the temporary colony under the charge of his director-partner Mr. Nate Salsbury (whose energy found occupation in attending to the details of the future), Colonel Cody a...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.After the great buffalo-killing match the name of Buffalo Bill became familiar all over the country, and his exploits were topics people never grew tired of discussing. All his...
13. CHAPTER XIII.So said the station boss of the Pony Express trail, addressing Buffalo Bill, who had dashed up to the cabin, his horse panting like a hound, and the rider ready for the fifteen-...
11. CHAPTER XI.Billy had been at home scarcely one month before he engaged himself as assistant wagon-master to another train which was made up at Fort Laramie to carry supplies to a new post...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It was when Buffalo Bill was in the Pony Express service between Red Buttes and Three Crossings, which included the perilous crossing of the Platte River, half a mile in width.
16. CHAPTER XVI.Cody learning of the serious illness of his loved mother instantly saddled his horse and made all possible speed homeward. He arrived at home to find his mother dying, and he re...