Buffalo Bill’s Ruse

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CONTENTS

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IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY[1]
I.PIZEN KATE.[5]
II.READY TO GO.[10]
III.AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.[14]
IV.PIZEN KATE FINDS HER HUSBAND.[19]
V.MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES.[25]
VI.INDIAN TREACHERY.[31]
VII.THE ATTACK OF THE MEXICAN[39]
VIII.THE MYSTERIOUS YOUNG WOMAN.[43]
IX.THE REDSKIN ROVERS.[51]
X.SURROUNDED AND CAPTURED.[59]
XI.ESCAPE.[66]
XII.A DESPERATE VENTURE[73]
XIII.THE FLIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES.[78]
XIV.STRANGE HAPPENINGS.[83]
XV.A DESPERATE BATTLE.[91]
XVI.AT THE HOUSE ON THE MESA.[97]
XVII.THE MYSTERY SOLVED.[107]
XVIII.THE MYSTERIOUS NUGGET.[111]
XIX.AT THE FORT.[121]
XX.BRUTALITY.[129]
XXI.ON THE BORDERS OF DISGRACE.[132]
XXII.OUTSIDE THE WALLS.[141]
XXIII.DRIVEN BY DESPERATION.[146]
XXIV.THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS.[153]
XXV.A VILLAIN IN FLIGHT.[159]
XXVI.STARTLING NEWS.[163]
XXVII.THE SKY MIRROR.[169]
XXVIII.BARLOW AND THE GIRL.[181]
XXIX.A DARING RUSE.[192]
XXX.THE CHEYENNE STAMPEDE.[200]
XXXI.THE THEFT OF THE NUGGETS.[208]
XXXII.ALCOHOL AND ELOQUENCE.[216]
XXXIII.A KINDLY WARNING.[223]
XXXIV.LURED INTO DANGER.[230]
XXXV.MOBBED AND THREATENED.[239]
XXXVI.THE WESTERN DEAD SHOT.[245]
XXXVII.THE MAN WHO INTERFERED.[249]
XXXVIII.DENTON AND DELAND.[253]
XXXIX.IN A WEB OF LIES.[259]
XL.THE RAIN MAKER.[272]
XLI.A GIRL’S HEROISM.[284]
XLII.ANOTHER STOOL PIGEON.[292]
XLIII.THE CAPTURE OF PANTHER PETE.[297]
XLIV.THE GIRL’S FLIGHT.[304]
XLV.THE FLAG OF TRUCE.[311]

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.