Buffalo Bill’s Pursuit

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CONTENTS

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IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY[1]
I.THE VOICE FROM THE TREE.[5]
II.PIZEN JANE, OF CINNABAR.[13]
III.CHASED BY WOLVES.[20]
IV.A STARTLING DISCOVERY.[32]
V.THE CAPTURE.[39]
VI.ABANDONED.[49]
VII.TAUNTS AND JEERS.[53]
VIII.CLOSING IN.[62]
IX.A DEFIANT PRISONER.[67]
X.MOTHER AND SON.[72]
XI.THE DESERT HOTSPUR.[78]
XII.IN THE OUTLAW STRONGHOLD.[84]
XIII.PEERLESS AS A SCOUT.[89]
XIV.THE LIVING BARRICADE.[96]
XV.THE GALLANT TROOPERS.[101]
XVI.A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE.[104]
XVII.PURSUED BY BLACKFEET.[109]
XVIII.THE BLACKFOOT TRAILERS.[118]
XIX.THE TRAGEDY OF THE CABIN.[123]
XX.AN AMAZING DISAPPEARANCE.[129]
XXI.THE PRISONER.[137]
XXII.WIND FLOWER.[146]
XXIII.THE FLIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES.[154]
XXIV.THE SCOUTS’ PURSUIT.[167]
XXV.AGAIN A PRISONER.[176]
XXVI.THE WILD RANGE RIDERS.[181]
XXVII.AGAIN ON THE TRAIL.[189]
XXVIII.THE CAPTURE OF THE MEDICINE MAN.[194]
XXIX.THE COMING OF THE MEDICINE MAN.[201]
XXX.THE DEFEAT OF THE BLACKFEET.[210]
XXXI.RINGED IN BY FIRE.[215]
XXXII.THE GIRL AND THE EMERALDS.[222]
XXXIII.THE EAVESDROPPER.[228]
XXXIV.THE MUSTANG CATCHERS.[235]
XXXV.THE ATTACK ON THE STAGE.[243]
XXXVI.DISAPPOINTED ROAD AGENTS.[251]
XXXVII.SETTING A TRAP.[256]
XXXVIII.A CAPTURE AND AN ESCAPE.[260]
XXXIX.THE EMERALDS GONE.[270]
XL.CODY AND NOMAD.[275]
XLI.THE OUTLAWS TRICKED.[283]
XLII.A ROUGH DIPLOMAT.[288]
XLIII.A WHIRLWIND CHASE.[293]
XLIV.LAWLESS STRATEGY.[298]
XLV.A SNEAKING COWARD.[305]
XLVI.THE CAPTURE OF THE THIEF.[311]
XLVII.AT BAY—AT PEACE.[316]

IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY
(BUFFALO BILL).

It is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of the New York Weekly. It was a dingy little office on Rose Street, New York, but the breath of the great outdoors stirred there when these old-timers got together. As a result of these conversations, Colonel Ingraham and Ned Buntline began to write of the adventures of Buffalo Bill for Street & Smith.

Colonel Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa, February 26, 1846. Before he had reached his teens, his father, Isaac Cody, with his mother and two sisters, migrated to Kansas, which at that time was little more than a wilderness.

When the elder Cody was killed shortly afterward in the Kansas “Border War,” young Bill assumed the difficult rôle of family breadwinner. During 1860, and until the outbreak of the Civil War, Cody lived the arduous life of a pony-express rider. Cody volunteered his services as government scout and guide and served throughout the Civil War with Generals McNeil and A. J. Smith. He was a distinguished member of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry.