{"product_id":"2940013902121","title":"The Adventures of Buffalo Bill","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e  THE ADVENTURES OF BUFFALO BILL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      I. CROSSING THE PLAINS                           1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II. ROUNDING UP INDIANS                          29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    III. PURSUING THE SIOUX                           51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV. MY DUEL WITH YELLOW HAND                     76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THE LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      I. THE LITTLE BOY OF THE PRAIRIE               101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II. LITTLE BILL AT SCHOOL AND AT THE TRAPS      118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    III. THE PONY EXPRESS RIDER                      134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV. \"BILL CODY, THE SCOUT\"                      151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      V. THE INDIAN CAMPAIGNS WITH THE ARMY          160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VI. BUFFALO BILL AND HIS SHOW                   169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HE SAW THE FEATHERED HEAD OF AN INDIAN POKE\u003cbr\u003e  OVER THE BANK BEFORE HIM                        _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I DISENTANGLED MYSELF AND JUMPED BEHIND\u003cbr\u003e  THE DEAD BODY OF MY HORSE                       _Facing p._ 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  IN THE DISTANCE I SAW A LARGE HERD OF\u003cbr\u003e  BUFFALOES WHICH WERE BEING CHASED AND\u003cbr\u003e  FIRED AT BY TWENTY OR THIRTY INDIANS                \"       96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  HE LOOKED UP AND SAW INDIANS IN WAR PAINT\u003cbr\u003e  STANDING INSIDE THE CAVE, GAZING AT HIM             \"      128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the death of William Frederick Cody, at Denver on January 10, 1917,\u003cbr\u003ethere passed away the last of that intrepid band of pathfinders who gave\u003cbr\u003etheir lives to the taming of the West, a gallant company of brave men\u003cbr\u003esteadfastly pushing back the frontier year by year and mile by mile, and\u003cbr\u003eceasing from their labors only when the young and vigorous life of the\u003cbr\u003ePacific States had been linked up for all time with the older civilization\u003cbr\u003eof the Atlantic seaboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fame of Colonel Cody, or Buffalo Bill as he was popularly called,\u003cbr\u003erecalls that of Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Kit Carson, but he cannot\u003cbr\u003ebe said to rank with those earlier heroes in point of actual national\u003cbr\u003eservice. He played no large part in the upbuilding of our Continental\u003cbr\u003eEmpire. Yet he was made of the same stern stuff, and, on his more\u003cbr\u003ecircumscribed stage, he was a gallant and picturesque figure, a true\u003cbr\u003esuperman of the brave old days. When, in 1883, Cody gave up his roving\u003cbr\u003elife and organized the Wild West show it meant that the Wild West itself\u003cbr\u003ewas gone for good and all. Together with Boone, Crockett, and Carson his\u003cbr\u003elife rounds out the century of continental occupation, counting from the\u003cbr\u003eyear Boone crossed the mountains into Kentucky to the final completion of\u003cbr\u003ethe Union Pacific Railway. Boone was born in Pennsylvania and died in\u003cbr\u003eMissouri; Crockett was born west of the Alleghanies, in Tennessee, and\u003cbr\u003edied in Texas; Carson and Cody were born west of the Mississippi, and died\u003cbr\u003ein Colorado.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most picturesque period in Buffalo Bill's life was his service\u003cbr\u003eas a rider in the service of the famous Pony Express just before the Civil\u003cbr\u003eWar. This was perhaps the most perilous job that a man could undertake,\u003cbr\u003eand young Cody was barely fifteen years old. Yet he had had previous\u003cbr\u003eexperience in Indian fighting and at the age of eleven he had killed his\u003cbr\u003efirst Indian. Shortly afterward the Civil War began and Cody enlisted in\u003cbr\u003ethe Union Army, serving as a scout. When the fighting was over he\u003cbr\u003ereturned to the Far West. The transcontinental railways were in process of\u003cbr\u003econstruction, a romantic episode in American history fittingly depicted in\u003cbr\u003ethe glowing pages of Zane Grey's _The U. P. Trail_. The builders of the\u003cbr\u003eKansas Pacific Railroad wanted buffalo meat to feed their laborers and\u003cbr\u003eCody undertook the contract. In eighteen months (1867-68) he killed 4,280\u003cbr\u003ebuffaloes, and thereby earned his title of Buffalo Bill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1868 Cody rejoined the army as scout and guide, and quickly made a\u003cbr\u003ereputation as a man of infinite endurance and daring. He was attached to\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Sheridan's headquarters at Hays City, Kansas; and soon after\u003cbr\u003ereporting for duty he learned that the commander wanted a dispatch sent to\u003cbr\u003eFort Dodge, a distance of ninety-five miles. The Indians had recently\u003cbr\u003ekilled two or three dispatch riders on this route, and none of the scouts\u003cbr\u003ewas anxious to take on the job. Even a promised bonus of several hundred\u003cbr\u003edollars found no takers. Cody volunteered and made the dangerous trip in\u003cbr\u003esafety. But at Fort Dodge he found that the commanding officer there was\u003cbr\u003every anxious to send dispatches to Fort Larned, and again the regular\u003cbr\u003escouts shunned the task. On went Buffalo Bill to Fort Larned, sixty-five\u003cbr\u003emiles farther. About half-way he stopped to water his mule and the animal\u003cbr\u003egot away from him.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070538039536,"sku":"2940013902121","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013902121_p0.jpg?v=1763601118","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013902121","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}