The Adventures Of Buffalo Bill Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Adventures of Buffalo Bill Man Of the brave Old days. When, in 1883, Cody gave up his roving life and organized the Wild West Show it meant that the Wild West itself was gone for good and all. TO gether with Boone, Crockett, and Carson his life rounds out the century of continental occupation, counting from the year Boone crossed the mountains into Kentucky to the final completion Of the Union Pacific Rail way. Boone was born in Pennsylvania and died in Missouri; Crockett was born west Of the Alleghanies, in Tennessee, and died in Texas; Carson and Cody were born west Of the Mississippi, and died in Colorado. Perhaps the most picturesque period in Buffalo Bill's life was his service as a rider in the service Of the famous Pony Express just before the Civil War. This was per haps the most perilous job that a man could undertake, and young Cody was barely fifteen years Old. Yet he had had previous experience in Indian fighting and at the age Of eleven he had killed his first Indian. Shortly afterward the Civil War began and Cody enlisted in the Union Army, serving as a scout. When the fighting was over he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.