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HON. W. F. CODY.
was born in Scott County, Iowa, whence hi... afterward to the distant frontier territory of Ka... still a boy his father was killed in what is now... passed amid all the excitements and turmoil inci... community, where the embers of political conten... ing flame of civil war. This state of affairs amo... the ingrained ferocity and hostility to encroach... phere of adventure well calculated to educate or... with danger, and self-reliance in the protective...
From a child used to shooting and riding... express rider, then the most dangerous occupat... to be most fearless and ready for any mission of danger, and respected by such men then engaged in the express service as old Jule and the terrible Slade, whose correct finale is truthfully told in Mark Twain's "Roughing It." He accompanied Gerneral Albert Sidney Johnston on his Utah expedition, guided trains overland, hunted for a living, and gained his sobriquet by wresting the laurels as a buffalo hunter from all claimants - notably Comstock, in a contest with... tected the building of the Union Pacific. In thes... men have been innumerable, and are well auther... the country. In fact, wherever you meet an army... dorser of Buffalo Bill. He is, in fact, the represent... that is, not the bar-room brawler or bully of the set... manhood - a child of the plains, who was raised th... to railroads, and when it was known on our map... accident of birth and early association, a man who... dangers of primitive existence, and possessed of th... hold positions of trust, and, without his knowing o...
Gen. Richard Irving Dodge, Gen. Serma "Thirty Years Among Our Wild Indians" : "The... depends, to a degree, on the skill, fidelity and int... ...habitually dependent on them for good routes and comfortable ...mmand must rely on them almost entirely for their knowledge of ...s of the enemy."
...ere personal bravery, a scout must possess the moral qualities ...ain of a ship - full of self reliance in his own ability to meet and ...difficulties, be a thorough student of nature, a self - taught weather ...erience, an astronomer by necessity, a naturalist, and thoroughly ...atagems, trickery and skill of his implacable Indian foe, because, ...eading troops, on him alone depends corectness of destination, ...ction against sudden storms, the finding of game, grass, wood and ...course, is more fatal than the deadly bullet. In fact, more lives have ...incompetent guides than ever the Sioux or Pawnes destroyed. ...ing officers are quick to recognise these traits in those claiming ...e in the military history of the West has such deference been ...Cody, as in witnessed by the continous years of service he has ...unds he has served, the expeditions and campaigns he has been ...holding, when he desired, the position of "Chief of Scouts of ...he intimate associations and contact resulting from it with Gen. ...he was at the making of the Comanche and Kiowa Treaty), Gen. ...ften given him special recognition and chosen him to organise ...the Duke Alexis), old Gen. Harney, Gens, W.S. Hancock, Crook, ...erry, McKenzie, Carr, Forsythe, Merritt, Brisbin, Emory, Gibbon, ...mer, Pembroke, and the late lamented Gen. Custer. His history ...istory of the middle West, and though younger equalling in term ...dventure Kit Carson, old Jim Bridger, Californian Joe, Wild Bill, ...gone associates.
...of the confidence placed in his frontiersmanship, it may suffice to ...se money and position most naturally sought the best protection ...fford, and who chose to place their lives in his keeping : Sir George ...Gordon Bennett, Duke Alexis, Gen. Custer, Lawrence Jerome, ...l of Rochester, Professor Marsh of Yale College, Major J. G. ...non Kingsley's brother), and others of equal rank and distinction. ...exploits with Carr, Miles and Crook, published in the New York ...mer of 1876, when he killed Yellow Hand in front of the military ...fight, are recorded references.
...f his old commeander and celebrated Indian - fighter, Gen. E. A. ...ve to him, is a tribute as generous as any brave man has ever ...ion:
...with my command, steadily in the field, I am qualified to bear ...ions and character.
...and unassuming. He is a natural gentleman in his manners as ...none of the roughness of the typical frontiersman. He can take ...but I have never heard of his using a knife or a pistal, or engag ...d be avoided. His personal strength and activity are very great, ...on are so good that no one has reason to quarrel with him, ...r than a good field - glass; he is the best trailer I have ever heard ...of the 'lay of country' - that is, he is able to tell what kind of ...any miles it is to water, or to any place, or how many miles have
...ever to tire and was always ready to go, in the darkest night or ...ly volunteered, knowing what the emergency required. His ...ans, or looking for stray animals or for game, is simply wonder ...ary hunter.
...s never noisy, obstreperous or excited. In fact, I never hardly ...I happened to want him, or he had something to report, when ...ce, and his information was always valuable and reliable.
...1866 we encountered hardship and exposure in terrific snow ...ne accasion that winter Mr. CODY showed his quality by quietly ...patches to Gen. Sheridan, across a dangerous region, where ...reluctant to risk himself.
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HON. W. F. CODY-("BUFFALO BILL")
was born in Scott County, Iowa, whence his father, Isaac Cody, emigrated a few years afterwards to the distant frontier territory of Kansas, settling near Fort Leavenworth. While still a boy his father was killed in what is now known as the "Border War," and his youth was passed amid all the excitement and turmoil incident to the strife and discord of that unsettled community, where the embers of political contentions smouldered until they burst into the burning flame of civil war. This state of affairs among the white occupants of the territory, and the ingrained ferocity and hostility to encroachment from the native savage, created an atmosphere of adventure well calculated to educate one of his natural temperament to a familiarity with danger, and self-reliance in the protective means for its avoidance.
From a child used to shooting and riding, he at an early age became a celebrated pony express rider, then the most dangerous occupation on the plains. He was known as a boy to be most fearless and ready for any mission of danger, and respected in the express service as old Jule and the terrible Slade, whose correct finale is truthfully told in Mark Twain's "Roughing It." He accompanied General Albert Sidney Johnston on his Utah expedition, guided trains overland, hunted for a living, and gained his sobriquet by wresting the laurels as a buffalo hunter from all claimants-notably Comstock, in a contest with whom he killed sixty-nine buffaloes in one day to Comstock's forty-six-became scout and guide for the now celebrated Fifth Cavalry (of which General E. A. Carr was Major), and is thoroughly identified with that regiment's Western history; was chosen by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to supply meat to the labourers while building the road, in one season killing 4,862 buffaloes, besides deer and antelope; and was chief of scouts in the department that protected the building of the Union Pacific. In these various duties his encounters with the red men have been innumerable, and are well authenticated by army officers in every section of the country. In fact, wherever you meet any army officer, there you meet an admirer and indorser of Buffalo Bill. He is, in fact, the representative man of the frontiersmen of the past-that is, not the bar-room brawler or bully of the settlements, by a genuine specimen of Western manhood-a child of the plains, who was raised there, and familier with the country previous to railroads, and when it was known on our maps as the "Great American Desert." By the accident of birth and early association, a man who become sensibly inured to the hardships and dangers of primitive existence, and possessed of those qualities that afterward enabled him to hold positions of trust, and, without his knowing or intending it, made him nationally famous.
Gen. Richard Irving Dodge, Gen. Sherman's chief of staff, correctly states in his "Thirty Years Among Our Wild Indians": "The success of every expedition against Indians depends, to a degree, on the skill, fidelity and intelligence of the men employed as scouts, for not only is the command habitually dependent on them for good routes and comfortable camps, but the officer in command must rely on them almost entirely for their knowledge of the position and movements of the enemy."
Therefore, besides mere personal bravery, a scout must possess the moral qualities associated with a good captain of a ship-full of self reliance in his own ability to meet and overcoem any unlooked for difficulties, be a thorough student of nature, a self-taught weatherprophet, a geologist by experience, an astronomer by necessity, a naturalist, and thoroughly educated in the warfare, stratagems, trickery and skill of his implacable Indian foe, because in handling expeditions or leading troops, on him alone depends correctness of destination, avoidance of dangers, protection against sudden storms, the finding of game, grass, wood ad water, the lack of which, of course, is more fatal than the deadly bullet. In fact, more lives have been lost on the plains from incompetent guides than ever the Sioux or Pawnees destroyed.
The best Indian-fighting officers are quick to recognise these traits in those claiming frontier lore, and to no one in the miltary history of the West has such deference been shown by them as to W. F. Cody, as is witnessed by the continuous years of service he has passed, the different commands he has served, the expeditions and campaigns he has been identified with, his repeated holding, when he desired, the position of "Chief of Scouts of United States Army," and the intimate associations and contact resulting from it with Gen. W. T. Sherman (with whom he was at the making of the Comanche and Kiowa Treaty), Gen. Phil. Sheridan (who has often given him special recognition and chosen him to organise expeditions, notably that of the Duke Alexis), old Gen. Harney, Gens. W. S. Hancock, Crook, Pope, Miles, Ord, Augur, Terry, McKenzie, Carr, Forsythe, Merritt, Brisbin, Emory, Gibbon, Royall, Hazen, Duncan, Palmer, Pembroke, and the late lamented Gen. Custer. His history in fact would almost be an history of the middle West, and though younger equalling in term of service and in personal adventure Kit Carson, old Jim Bridger, California Joe, Wild Bill, and the rest of his dead-and-gone associates.
As another evidence of the confidence placed in his frontiermanship, it may suffice to mention the celebrities whose money and position most naturally sought the best protection the Western market could afford, and who chose to place their lives in his keeping: Sir George Gore, Earl Dunraven, James Gordon Bennett, Duke Alexis, Gen. Custer, Lawrence Jerome, Remington, Professor Ward of Rochester, Professor March of Yale College, Major J. G. Hecksher, Dr. Kingsley (Canon Kingsley's brother), and others of equal rank and distinction. All books of the plains, his exploits with Carr, Miles and Crook, published in the New York Herald and Times in the summer of 1876, when he killed Yellow hand in front of the military command in an open-handed fight, are recorded references.
The following letter of his old commander and celebrated Indian-fighter, Gen. E. A. Carr, written years ago relative to him, is a tribute as generous as any brave man has ever made to one of his own position:
"From his services with my command, steadily in the field, I am qualified to bear testimony as to his qualifications and character.
"He was very modest and unassuming. He is a natural gentleman in his manners as well as in character, and has none of the roughness of the typical frontiersman. He can take his own part when required, but I have never heard of his using a knife or a pistol, or engaging in a quarrel where it could be avoided. His personal strength and activity are very great, and his temper and disposition are so good that no one has reason to quarrel with him.
"His eyesight is better than good field-glass; he is the best trailer I have ever heard of, and also the best judge of the 'lay of country'-that is, he is able to tell what kind of country is ahead, so as to know how to act. he is a perfect judge of distance, and always read to tell correctly how many miles it is to water, or to any place, or how many miles have been marched.
"MR. CODY seemed never to tire and was always ready to go, in the darkest night or the worst weather, and usually volunteered, know what the emergency required. His trailing, when following Indians, or looking for stray animals or for game, is simply wonderful. He is a most extraordinary hunter.
"In a fight MR. CODY is never noisy, obstreperous or excited. In fact, I never hardly noticed him in a fight, unless I happened to want him, or he had something to report, when he was always in the right place, and his information was always valuable and reliable.
"During the winter of 1866 we encountered hardships and exposure in terrific snowstorms, sleet, etc., etc. On one occasion that winter MR. CODY showed his quality by quietly offering to go with some dispatches to Gen. Sheridan, across a dangerous region, where another principal scout was reluctant to risk himself.
Image caption: WHITE EAGLE. "GUIDING AND GUARDING"
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"MR. CODY has since served with me as post guide and scout at Fort McPherson, where he frequently distinguished himself.
"In the summer of 1876 CODY went with me to the Black Hill regions, where he killed Yellow Hand. Afterwards he was with the Big Horn and Yellowstone Expeditions. I consider that his services to the country and the army by trailing, finding and fighting Indians, and thus protecting the frontier settlers, and by guiding commands over the best and most practicable routes, have been invaluable."
Thus it will be seen that, notwithstanding it may sometimes be thought his fame rests upon the pen of the romancer and novelist, had they never been attracted to him (and they were solely by his sterling worth), W. F. CODY would none the less have been a character in American history. Having assisted in founding substantial peace in Nebraska, where heas honored by being elected to the legislature (while away on a hunt), he has settled at North Platte, to enjoy the fruits and minister to the wants and advancements of the domestic circle with which he is blessed. On the return to civil life of his old prairie friend, Major North, in rehearsing the old time years agone on the Platte, the Republican, and the Medicine, they concluded to reproduce some of the interesting scenes on the plains and in the Wild West.
The history of such a man, attractive as it already has been to the most distinguished officers and fighters in the United States Army, must prove doubly so to the men, women and children who have heretofore found only in the novel the hero of rare exploits, on which imagination so loves to dwell. Sturdy and agile, a remarkable specimen of manly beauty, with the brain to conceive and the nerve to execute, Buffalo Bill par excellence is the exemplar of the strong and unique traits that characterize a true American frontiersman.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT WITH THE FIFTH CAVALRY.
Captain George F. Price's history of this famous regiment recounts its experience from the time it was known as the Second Dragoons to the present, giving the historical record of its officers, among whom are numbreed manu of the most distinguished military leaders known in America annals, such as Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen. George H. Thomas, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. John Sedgwick, Gens. Hardee, Emory, Van Dorn, Merritt, Carr, Royall, Custer and other of equal note. Besides alluding in many of its pages to incidents, adventures and conduct of the favorite guide and scout of the regiment, W. F. CODY ("BUFFALO BILL"), Captain Price completes a narrative of brave men and daring deeds by "flood and field with the following biographical sketch (page 583) of W. F. CODY, "BUFFALO BILL."
"COLONEL W. F. CODY ('BUFFALO BILL') went to Pike's Peak during the excitement which followed the discovery of gold in Colorado, but failing of success returned to Kansas and became a trapper on the Republican River. In the fall of 1861 he was a Government scout and guide at Fort Larned, Kan., and in 1862 served as a scout and guide for the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, being chiefly employed in Arkansas and South-western Missouri. In 1863 he enlisted in the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, and served in Tennessee, Mississippi, Missouri and Kansas, and participated in several battles. He was made a non-commissioned officer, and served as a scout for his regiment after the battle of Tupelo. He was honorably discharged at the end of the war, and engaged in various business pursuits unitl the spring of 1867, when he made a contract, for a monthly compensation of five hundred dollars, to deliver all the buffalo meat that would be needed for food purposes for a number of laborers on the Kansas Pacific Railway in Western Kansas, and during this engagement-a period of less than eighteen months-he killed four thousand two hundred and eighty buffaloes. This remarkable success gained for him the name of 'Buffalo Bill.' When hunting buffalo, Cody would ride his horse whenever possible to the right front of a herd, shoot down the leaders, and crowd their followers to the left until they began to run in a circle, when he would soon kill all that he required. Cody again entered the Government service in 1898 as a scout and guide, and, after a series of dangerous rides as bearer of important dispathces through a contryi which was infested with hostile Indians, was appointed by General Sheridan chief scout and guide for the Fifth Cavalry, which had been recently ordered from reconstruction duty in the Southern States for a campaign against the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes. He joined a detachment of the regiment at Fort Hayes, Kansas, and was engaged, during the fall of 1868, in the combats on Beaver and Shuter Creeks and North branch of Solomon River. He then served with the Canadian River expedition during the winter of 1868-69, and became deservedly conspicuous for cheerful service under dispiriting circumstances and the successful discharge of important duties. He marched with a battalion of the regiment across the country from Fort Lyon, Colo., to Fort McPherson, Neb., during May, 1869, and was engaged en routein the combat of Beaver Creek, Kan., where he rendered an important and brilliant service by carrying dispatches from a detached party to the cavalry camp after a soldier courier had been driven back by the Indians; and again at Spring Creek, Neb., three days later, where, when the advance guard under Lieutenant Babcok was surrounded by a large force of the enemy, he was distinguished for coolness and bravery.
"Cody was appointed chief scout and guide for the Republican River expedition of 1869, and was conspicuous during the pursuit of the Dog Soldiers, under the celebrated Cheyenne chief, Tall Bull, to Summit Springs, Colo. he also guided the Fifth Cavalry to a position whence the regiment was enabled to charge upon the enemy, and win a brilliant victory. He afterward participated in the Niobrara pursuit, and later narrowly escaped death at the hands of hostile Sioux on Prairie Dog Creek, Kan., September 26, 1869. He was assigned to Fort McPherson when the expedition was disbanded, and served at that station (was a Justice of the Peace in 1871) unitl the Fifth Cavalry was transferred to Arizona. He served during this period with several expeditions, ans was conspicuous for gallant conduct in the Indian combat at Red Willow and Birdwood Creeks, ans also for successful services as chief scoutand guide of the buffalo hunt which was arranged by General Sheridan for the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia.
"Cody was then assigned to duty with the Third Cavalry, and served with that regiment until the fall of 1872, when he was elected a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and thus acquired acquired the title of 'Honorable.' But accepting the advice of Eastern friends he resigned his seat in the Legislature and also his position of scout and guide at Fort McPherson, and proceededto Chicago, where he made his first appearance as an actor in a drama entitled 'The Scouts of the Plains,' winning an instant success.
"At the beginning of the Sioux War in 1876, he hastened th Cheyenne, Wyo., joined the Fifth Cavalry, which had recently returned from Arizona, and was engaged in the affair at War Bonnet (Indian Creek), Wye., where he killed in a hand-to-hand combat the Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hand. He then accompanied the Fifth Cavalry to Goose Creek, Mont., and served with the Big Horn and Yellowstone expedition until September, when business engagements compelled him to return to the Eastern States. Cody abundantly proved in this campaign that he had lost none of his old-time skill and daring in Indian warfare. He enjoys a brilliant reputation as a scout and guide, which has been fairly earned by faithful and conspicuous service.
"He is modest and unassuming, and free from the common faults of the typical frontiersman. His present lucrative business has made him widely known throughout the country. He has valuable property interests at North Platte, Neb., and is owner of an extensive cattle ranch on Dismal River, 65 miles north of North Platte, having for a partner in the business Major Frank North, who is well known as the whilom commander of the celebrated Pawnee scouts.
Image caption: RED FOX. "WATCHING AND WAITING"
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"William F. Cody is one of the best scouts and guides that ever rode at the head of a column of cavalry on the prairies of the Far West. His army friends, from general to private, hope that he may live long and prosper abundantly/
"Should the wild Sioux again go on the war-path, Cody, if living, will be found with the cavalry advance, riding another 'Buckskin Joe,' and carrying his Springfield rifle, 'Lucretia,' across the pommel of his saddle."
FROM COL. DODGE'S "THIRTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS." - Page 628.
"Of ten men employed as scouts nine will prove to be worthless; of fifty so employed one may prove to be really valuable, but, though hundreds, even thousands, of men have been so employed by the Government since the war, the number of really remarkable men among them can be counted on the fingers. The services which these men are called on to perform are so important and valuable that the officer reports come to be great men on the frontier. Fremont's reports made Kit Carson a renowned man. Custer immortalized California Joe. Custer, Merritt and Carr made William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) a plains celebrity 'UNTIL TIME SHALL BE NO MORE.'"
A LEGISLATOR.- The late Phocian Howard journalistically records the fact: - "We were present in the Nebraska Legislature when Mr. Cody's resignation was read, an, knowing his practical qualities, his thorough knowledge of important questions then demanding attention in border legislation, his acquaintance with the Indian problem - the savages' deadly foe in battle, their generous friend in peace - great was out disappointment in his refusing to continue in political life, choosing ot be, what he really is, a true 'Knight of the Plains.' On the frontier, even there his name a household word, deservedly is the famous scout popular thorughout the land, standing as he has, a leader among the manly pioneer barriers between civilization and savagery, risking all that the 'Star of Empire' might force its 'westward way.' We know Bill Cody well, having been with him in three campaigns among the Indians, the last being the memorable Custer campaign under Crook, on the Big Horn, against the Sitting Bull Sioux, and we bear kind witness that Buffalo Bill is the idol of the army and frontiersmen, and the dread and terror of the war-bonneted Indian. At the last session of the Nebraska Legislature be received a large complimentary vote for United States Senator."
A PEN PICTURE - Curtis Guild, proprietor and editor of the conservative Commercial Bulletin, Boston, writes: "Raised on the frontier, he has passed through ever grade, and won fame in each line, while to be proficient in one brings celebrity sufficient to gratify most ambitions. Thus it is he holds supremacy in fact, and receives from his associates an adoration surpassing even his public popularity. Visitors to the camp, early the other morning, found him joining in every frolic, game and contest, with each and all, and generally excelling; in shooting, in running, in jumping, in trials of strength, feats of agility, horsemanship, handling the ribbons behind four or six, riding the vicious mustang, manipulating the revolver, etc., tackling each specialist, and coming to the front with a generaous modesty admired by the defeated.
"No lover of the human race, no man with an eye for the picturesque, but must have enjoyed the very sight of these pioneers of civilization. Never was a finer picture of American manhood presented than when Buffalo Bill stepped out to show the capabilities of the Western manhood presented than when Buffalo Bill stepped out to show the capabilities of the Western teamaster's whip. Tall beyond the lot of ordinary mortals, straight as an arrow, not an ounce of useless flesh upon his limbs, but every muscle firm and hard as the sinews of a stag, with the frank, kindly eye of a devoted friend, and a natural courtly grace of manner which would become a marshal of France, Buffalo Bill is from spur to sombrero one of the finest types of manhood this continent has ever produced. Those who had expected to meet a different class of men must have been pleasantly surprised in these genuine sons of the plains, every one of whom was stamped with the natural easy grace and courtesy of manner which marks the man who is born a gentleman."
AS AN EDUCATOR. - The nationally known Brick Pomeroy thus writes: "One of the pronounced, positive, strong men of the West is Hon. Wm. F. Cody, of Nebraska, known quite generally the world over as 'Buffalo Bill.' A sturdy, generous, positive character, who as hunter, guide, scout, Government officer, member of the Legislature, and gentleman, rises to the equal of every emergency into which his way is opened or directed. Quick to think and to act, cool in all cases of pleasure or extreme danger; versatile in his genius; broad and liberal in his ideas; progressive in his mentality, he can no more keep still or settle down into a routine work incidental to office or farm life than an eagle can thive in a cage.
"The true Western man is free, fearless, generous and chivalrous. Of his class Hon. Wm. F. Cody, 'Buffalo Bill,' is a bright representative. As a part of his rushing career he has brough together material for what he correctly terms a Wild West Exhibition. I should call is a Wild West Reality. The idea is not merely to take in money from those who witness a very lively exhibition, but to give the people in the East a correct representation of life on the plains, and the incidental life of the hardy, brave, intelligent pioneers, who are the first to blaze the way to the future homes and greatness of America. He knows the worth and sturdiness of true Western character, and, as a lover of his country, wishes to present as many facts as possible to the public, so that those who will can see actual pictures of life in the West, brought to the East for the inspection and education of the public.
" 'Buffalo Bill' has brought the Wild West to the doors of the East. There is more of real life, of genuine interest, of positive education in this startling exhibition than I have ever before seen, and it is true to nature and life as it really is with those who are smoothing the way for millions to follow. All of this imaginary Romeo and Juliet business sinks to utter insignificance in comparison to the drama of existence that is here so well enacted, and all the operas in teh world appear likek pretty playthings for emascualted children by the side of the settling of reality and the music of the frontier so faithfully and extensively presented and so cleverly managed by this incomparable representative of Western pluck, coolness, bravery, independance and generosity. I wish every person east of the Missouri River could see this true graphic picture of wild Western life; they would know more and think better of the genuine men of the West.
"I wish there were more progressive educators like Wm. F. Cody in this world.
"He deserves well for his efforts to please and to instruct in matters important to America and incidents that are passing away never more to"
Could a man now living have stood on the shore of the Red Sea, and witnessed the passage of the children of Israel and the struggle of Pharaoh and his hosts, what a sight he would have seen, and how interested would be those to whom he related the story. Could the man on the shore to see Washington and his soldiers cross the Delaware have lived till now to tell the story, what crowds he would have to listen. How interesting would be the story of a man, if he were now living who had witnessed the landing of Columbus on the shores of the New World, or the story of one of the hardy English Puritans who took passage on the "Mayflower," and landed on the rock-bound coast of New England. So, too, of the angel who has seen the far West become tame and dotted under the advancing civilization as the pioneers fought their way westward into desert and jungle. What a story he can relate as to the making of that history. And what a history America has, to be sure! From the mouth of the Hudson River to the shores of the Pacific, men, women and children have conquered the wilderness by going to the front and staying there - not by crowding into cities and living as do worms, by crawling through each other and devouring the leavings.
Since the railroad gave its aid to pioneering, America is making history faster than any other country in the world. Her pioneers are fast passing away. A few years more and the