Buffalo Bill’s Still Hunt

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CONTENTS

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IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY[1]
I.CROSSING THE RIO GRANDE.[5]
II.DESERTED.[19]
III.SILK LASSO SAM, THE OUTLAW.[24]
IV.BONNIE BELLE OF POCKET CITY.[29]
V.LIFE AT PIONEER POST.[43]
VI.THE LAST APPEAL.[48]
VII.THE DOOMED OUTLAW.[62]
VIII.A FAIR PLOTTER.[77]
IX.A VISITOR AT PIONEER POST.[87]
X.THE REALITY OF AN IDEAL.[101]
XI.THE DEPARTURE.[115]
XII.CAUGHT IN THE ACT.[129]
XIII.IN HANGMAN’S GULCH.[144]
XIV.TURNING THE TABLES.[163]
XV.A MIDNIGHT INTERVIEW.[177]
XVI.A BORDER BURIAL.[186]
XVII.A SISTER OF MERCY.[196]
XVIII.RETURN OF THE SCOUTS.[219]
XIX.THE TELLING BLOW.[228]
XX.THE SURGEON’S MISSION.[238]
XXI.ACCUSED.[252]
XXII.BUFFALO BILL’S MAD RIDE.[261]
XXIII.THE COLONEL RECEIVES A LETTER.[279]
XXIV.TREACHERY.[292]
XXV.THE SURGEON SCOUT’S WARNING.[304]
XXVI.BONNIE BELL’S WORK DONE.[314]

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.

During the Civil War, while riding through the streets of St. Louis, Cody rescued a frightened schoolgirl from a band of annoyers. In true romantic style, Cody and Louisa Federci, the girl, were married March 6, 1866.