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53Buffalo Bill In Taunton In 1874 Buffalo Bill Cody was a famous man. Trail scout, Indian fighter, and pioneer of the West were just a few of his occupations. At the same time, Wild Bill Hickok was equally well known. This giant of the Old West was a gunslinger, the man who had signle-handedly cleaned out the town of Abilene, Kansas. He was a cool customer whose tricks with a six gun were legendary. Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok had more in common than their love of the West. Both of them were great fakers, and both appeared in Tauton in 1874. Buffalo Bill, under the unfluence of a character named Ned Buntline, had allowed himself to be placed in the leading role of a Wild West show which was to tour the East. Buntline, who had written the show, had promised Cody a fortune if it was successful. Buntline, incidentally, was a sometime temperance lecturer whose devotion to the bottle did not hinder him in any way, in fact, he sometimes delivered his best lectures while horribly intoxicated. Buffalo Bill had persuaded two of his best friends to join him in the show. They were Texas Jack, known to his mother and close friends as J. R. Omohundro, a fairly well known western figure of those days, and none other than Wild Bill Hickok, the hero of many of the worst of the dime novels. The other leading roles were to be assumed by a Mile. Morlacchi, a comely Italian girl of dubious acting ability, and Frank Mordaunt, a mediocre actor who was badly out of place with these people. The show was entitled "Scouts of the Plains," and it was terri- | 53Buffalo Bill In Taunton In 1874 Buffalo Bill Cody was a famous man. Trail scout, Indian fighter, and pioneer of the West were just a few of his occupations. At the same time, Wild Bill Hickok was equally well known. This giant of the Old West was a gunslinger, the man who had signle-handedly cleaned out the town of Abilene, Kansas. He was a cool customer whose tricks with a six gun were legendary. Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok had more in common than their love of the West. Both of them were great fakers, and both appeared in Tauton in 1874. Buffalo Bill, under the unfluence of a character named Ned Buntline, had allowed himself to be placed in the leading role of a Wild West show which was to tour the East. Buntline, who had written the show, had promised Cody a fortune if it was successful. Buntline, incidentally, was a sometime temperance lecturer whose devotion to the bottle did not hinder him in any way, in fact, he sometimes delivered his best lectures while horribly intoxicated. Buffalo Bill had persuaded two of his best friends to join him in the show. They were Texas Jack, known to his mother and close friends as J. R. Omohundro, a fairly well known western figure of those days, and none other than Wild Bill Hickok, the hero of many of the worst of the dime novels. The other leading roles were to be assumed by a Mile. Morlacchi, a comely Italian girl of dubious acting ability, and Frank Mordaunt, a mediocre actor who was badly out of place with these people. The show was entitled "Scouts of the Plains," and it was terri- |