Buffalo Bill’s Weird Warning

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CONTENTS

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IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY[1]
I.MYSTERIOUS DOINGS.[5]
II.ANOTHER STRANGER IN CAMP.[18]
III.CAPTAIN LAWLESS.[30]
IV.THE INDIAN GIRL.[37]
V.WAH-COO-TAH AGAIN.[50]
VI.AT THE FORTY THIEVES MINE.[63]
VII.LAYING THE “GHOST.”[78]
VIII.THE FIGHT AT THE ORE-DUMP.[89]
IX.DELL AND CAYUSE ALSO DELAYED.[95]
X.THE STRANGER AND THE STEER.[107]
XI.A GIFT WITH A STRING TO IT.[119]
XII.THE “FORTY THIEVES MINE.”[131]
XIII.DELL AND WAH-COO-TAH.[144]
XIV.LITTLE CAYUSE ON GUARD.[163]
XV.THE RESCUE OF NOMAD AND WILD BILL.[176]
XVI.THE CURTAIN-ROCK.[183]
XVII.THE TURN OF FORTUNE’S WHEEL.[195]
XVIII.THE ROUND-UP AT SPANGLER’S.[202]
XIX.THE STAGE FROM MONTEGORDO.[209]
XX.DOUBLE-CROSSED.[222]
XXI.BUFFALO BILL AND GENTLEMAN JIM.[234]
XXII.LETTER, RING, AND LOCKET.[241]
XXIII.PICTURE-WRITING.[253]
XXIV.ON THE WAY TO MEDICINE BLUFF.[260]
XXV.A COWED OUTLAW.[273]
XXVI.CHAVORTA GORGE AND PIMA.[280]
XXVII.A BUSY TIME FOR CAYUSE.[293]
XXVIII.A HAPPY REUNION.[300]
XXIX.CONCLUSION.[309]

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.