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Chicagoans to read a bit of his life
history as told to a reporter for the
DAILY GLOBE yesterday by himself in
his own modest way.

"I was born," said the colonel, "in
Scott county, Iowa, from which place
my father, Isaac Cody, emigrated a few
years afterward to the distant frontier
territory of Kansas, settling near Fort
Leavenworth. While I was yet a boy
my father was killed in what was

(DRAWING)
HON. W. F. Cody.
"Buffalo Bill."

known as the 'border war,' and my
youth was passed amid all the excitements
and turmoil of that unsettled
community.

"Being used from a child to shooting
and riding, at an early age I entered
the dangerous and difficult business on
the plains known as 'pony expressing.'
I accompanied Gen. Albert Sidney
Johnstone on his Utah expedition,
guided trains overland, hunted for a living
and finally become scout and guide
for the now celbrate Fifth cavalry, of
which Gen. E. A. Carr was the major.
When the Kansas Pacific railroad was
in course of construction I was employed
by the contractors to supply
meat to the laborers while building the
road. The first season, I remember, I
killed 4,862 buffaloes, besides many deer
and antelope.

"During the construction of the Union
Pacific I was retained as chief of scouts
in the department that protected the