{"product_id":"2940014027199","title":"The Adventures of Buffalo Bill","description":"The Adventures of Buffalo Bill by Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. The Adventures of Buffalo Bill\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Crossing the Plains\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Rounding up Indians\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Pursuing the Sioux\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. My Duel with Yellow Hand\u003cbr\u003ePart 2. The Life of Buffalo Bill\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Little Boy of the Prairie\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Little Bill at School and at the Traps\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Pony Express Rider\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. “Bill Cody, the Scout”\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Indian Campaigns with the Army\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Buffalo Bill and His Show\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD\u003cbr\u003eWith the death of William Frederick Cody, at Denver on January 10, 1917, there passed away the last of that intrepid band of pathfinders who gave their lives to the taming of the West, a gallant company of brave men steadfastly pushing back the frontier year by year and mile by mile, and ceasing from their labors only when the young and vigorous life of the Pacific States had been linked up for all time with the older civilization of the Atlantic seaboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fame of Colonel Cody, or Buffalo Bill as he was popularly called, recalls that of Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Kit Carson, but he cannot be said to rank with those earlier heroes in point of actual national service. He played no large part in the upbuilding of our Continental Empire. Yet he was made of the same stern stuff, and, on his more circumscribed stage, he was a gallant and picturesque figure, a true superman of the brave old days. When, in 1883, Cody gave up his roving life and organized the Wild West show it meant that the Wild West itself was gone for good and all. Together with Boone, Crockett, and Carson his life rounds out the century of continental occupation, counting from the year Boone crossed the mountains into Kentucky to the final completion of the Union Pacific Railway. Boone was born in Pennsylvania and died in Missouri; Crockett was born west of the Alleghanies, in Tennessee, and died in Texas; Carson and Cody were born west of the Mississippi, and died in Colorado.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most picturesque period in Buffalo Bill’s life was his service as a rider in the service of the famous Pony Express just before the Civil War. This was perhaps the most perilous job that a man could undertake, and young Cody was barely fifteen years old. Yet he had had previous experience in Indian fighting and at the age of eleven he had killed his first Indian. Shortly afterward the Civil War began and Cody enlisted in the Union Army, serving as a scout. When the fighting was over he returned to the Far West. The transcontinental railways were in process of construction, a romantic episode in American history fittingly depicted in the glowing pages of Zane Grey’s The U. P. Trail. The builders of the Kansas Pacific Railroad wanted buffalo meat to feed their laborers and Cody undertook the contract. In eighteen months (1867-68) he killed 4,280 buffaloes, and thereby earned his title of Buffalo Bill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...continued...","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173641076976,"sku":"2940014027199","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014027199_p0.jpg?v=1763599329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014027199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}