“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era, so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.
+ Freeman 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 200w Nation 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy years.”
+ Review 3:71 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted to western history.”
+ R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has passed beyond duplication.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 340w
“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history graphically told by the one who knew it best.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 16:122 Je ’20 100w