CHAPTER XXXI.
DANGEROUS WORK.
Scouting on a Steamboat—Captain Grant Marsh—A Trip down the Yellowstone
River—Acting as Dispatch Carrier—I Return East and open my Theatrical
Season with a New Play—Immense Audiences—I go into the Cattle Business
in company with Major Prank North—My Home at North Platte.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CONCLUSION.
A Cattle "Round-up"—A Visit to My Family in our New Home—A Visit from my Sisters—I go to Denver—Buying more Cattle—Pawnee and Nez-Perces Indians Engaged for a Theatrical Tour—The Season of 1878-79—An experience in Washington—Home Once More.
THE LIFE OF HON. WILLIAM F. CODY
CHAPTER I.
CHILDHOOD.
My début upon the world's stage occurred on February 26th, 1845. The scene of this first important event in my adventurous career, being in Scott county, in the State of Iowa. My parents, Isaac and Mary Ann Cody, who were numbered among the pioneers of Iowa, gave to me the name of William Frederick. I was the fourth child in the family. Martha and Julia, my sisters, and Samuel my brother, had preceded me, and the children who came after me were Eliza, Nellie, Mary, and Charles, born in the order named.