Last Of The Great Scouts - Buffalo Bill - Paperback

LAST GREAT BUFFALO BY HELEN CODY WETMORE AND ZANE GREY ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK GROSSET DUNLAP PUBLISHERS M de in the United State of America BUFFALO BILL ON HORSEBACK. FROM THE FAMOUS PAINTING BY ROSA BONHEUK, CONTENTS FOREWORD -----rii GENEOLOGY OF BUFFALO BILL ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. - - - xi CHAPTER p AGB I. THE OLD HOMESTEAD IK IOWA 1 II. WILLS FIRST INDIAN - 10 III. THE SHADOW OF PARTISAN STRIFE - 17 IV. PERSECUTION CONTINUES - 23 V. THE BoY EXTRA - ... 32 VI. FAMILY DEFENDER AND HOUSEHOLD TEASE - 42 VII. INDIAN ENCOUNTER AND SCHOOL-DAY INCIDENTS - 51 VIII. DEATH AND BURIAL OF TURK - 66 IX. WILL AS PONY EXPRESS RIDER ... 78 X. ECHOES FROM SUMTER - - - - 86 XI. A SHORT BUT DASHING INDIAN CAMPAIGN - 96 XII. THE MOTHERS LAST ILLNESS ... 105 XIII. IN THE SECRET-SERVICE - - - - 119 XIV. A RESCUE AND A BETROTHAL - 131 XV. WILL AS A BENEDICT - - - - 143 XVI. How THE SOBRIQUET OF BUFFALO BILL WAS WOK 160 XVII. SATANTA, CHIEF OF THE KIOWAS - - - 170 XVIII. WILL MADE CHIEF OF SCOUTS - - 18 XIX. ARMY LIFE AT FORT MCPHERSON - - - 1S7 CONTENTS vi XX. PA-HAS-KA, THE LONG-HAIRED CHIEF - - 199 XXL THE HUNT OF THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS - - 209 XXIL THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES - - - 218 XXIIL THE GOVERNMENTS INDIAN POLICY - - 229 XXIV. LITERARY WORK - 239 XXV. FIRST VISIT TO THE VALLEY OF THE BIG HORN - 251 XXVI. TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN ... 260 XXVII. RETURN OF THE WILD WEST TO AMERICA - 275 XXVIII. A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL MILES - - 284 XXIX. THE WILD WEST AT THE WORLDS FAIR - 290 XXX. CODY DAY AT THE OMAHA EXPOSITION - 302 XXXI. THE LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS - - 313 ZANE GRAY ADDS THE FINISHING TOUCH TO THE STORY BY TELLNG OF THE LAST DAYS OF THE LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS - 321 FOREWORD By ZANE GREY IT is anhonor and a pleasure for me to add a few words to this splendid book, The Last of the Great Scouts, by Colonel Codys sister, Mrs. Helen Cody Wetmore. When the history of our western frontier is at last written, the name of Buffalo Bill will stand out perhaps as no other. He was symbolical of the he roic west He inspired the pioneer, guided the sol dier, and helped the builders of the railroad. And his life was more thrilling than any wild, adven turous and moving romance. Facts may not be so strange as fiction, but they are more convincing. And some facts, if written as fiction, would be unbe lievable. The early West bred men of heroic mould. They resembled the Indian in many ways, and were su perior to him in all ways except perhaps the noble worship of nature. The like of Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Buffalo Jones, and many other famous fron tiersmen will never be met with again in this world. The time needed them, and they developed. These three types of the West were singularly unlike Buffalo Bill was the scout and pathfinder and hunt vii viii FOREWORD er Wild Bill was the gunman, the killer, the foe of the rampant desperado class Buffalo Jones was the preserver. And so a narrative of Buffalo Bills life, by a relative, written simply and truthfully from first hand facts, is an absorbingly interesting story as well as a valuable adjunct to history. It will show a man growing great through the life of the times an outdoor life of swift action, of various service, of perilous adventure, of unself ish devotion to an ideal, of magnificent effrontery in the face of death, of steadfast friendship, of in explicable hardihood and endurance through heat, storm, cold, desert thirst and mountainloneliness all that some day men might have free, happy homes in the boundless West. ZANE GREY. GENEALOGY OF BUFFALO BILL The following genealogical sketch was compiled in 1897 It is not generally known that genuine royal blood courses in Colonel Codys veins. He is a lineal descendant of Milesius, king of Spain, that famous monarch whose three sons, Heber, Here mon, and Ir, founded the first dynasty in Ireland, about the beginning of the Christian era. The Cody family comes through the line of Heremon. The original name was Tireach, which signifies The Rocks...