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Buffalo Bill's Most Famous Ride.

WILLIAM F. CODY, "Buffalo Bill," made a
remarkable ride in Kansas in 1868, when the
State was com paratively unknown. We are
not compelled to take the famous scout's
word for his fent, for General Phil Sheridan
has left the record in his autobiography.
That commander started out in midwinter to
punish the troublesome red-skins and got as
far as Hays City. The following extract
from Sheridan's memoirs tells the story of
the remarkable ride:

"Mr. William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, was
first brought to my notice by distinguishing
himself in bringing me an important dispatch
from Fort Larned to Fort Hays, a distance
of sixty-five miles, through a section
infested with Indians. The dispatch informed
me that the Indians near Larned
were preparing to decamp, and this intelligence
required that certain orders should be
carried to Fort Dodge, ninety-five miles
south of Hays. This, too, being a particularly
dangerous route-several couriers having
been killed on it-it was impossible to
get one of the various Petes, Jacks or Jims
hanging around Hays City to take this communication.

"Cody, learning of the strait I was in,
manfully came to the rescue, and proposed
to make the trip to Dodge, though he had
just finished his long and perilous ride from
Larned. I gratefully accepted his offer, and
after a short rest he mounted a fresh horse
and hastened on his journey, halting but
once to rest on the way, and then only for
an hour, the stop being made at Coon Creek,
where he got another mount from a troop of
cavalry. At Dodge he took some sleep, and
then continued on to his own post-Fort
Larned-with more dispatches.

After resting at Larned he was again in
the saddle with tidings for me at Fort Hays,
General Hazen sending him this time, with
word that the villagers had fled to the south
of the Arkansas, Thus, in all, Cody rode
about 350 miles in less than sixty hours, and
such an exhibition of endurance and courage
at that time of the year and in such
weather was more than enough to convince
me that his services would be extremely
valuable in the campaign, so I retained him
at Fort Hays till the battalion of the 5th
Cavalry arrived, and then made him chief of
scouts."

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GOVERNOR CODY.

Col. Wm. F. Cody, known throughout
the whole civilized world as Buffalo
Bill," has been the recipient of more
merited honors than usually falls to the
lot of man in any station in life or in
any calling. And in every instance the
honors have sought the man and not
the man the honors. He is now not
only requested but importuned to allow
his name to come before the people of
Nebraska as candidate for Governor of
the commonwealth of the state which
has been the scene of many of his exploits
and whose people bear witness to
his many triumphs. A nomination in
the state of Nebraska means an election
for Col. Cody, for he is popular, not
with his party alone, but with the people
regardless of party lines and party
prejudices. His is a character that has
been tried in the fire of many hard
years' service of the people, and not
found wanting in any particular.

Col. Cody was born in Scott county,
Iowa, and went with his parents to
Kansas, engaging in the various pursuits
of a frontiersman from his earliest
childhood. Being successively a herder,
wagon-master, pony express rider,
trapper, scout, and finally chief of
scouts for the United States army. The
greatest Indian fighter of our times;
the Indian's friend in peace and most
implacable foe in war; he has the confidence
and respect of the red as well as
the white man. His knowledge of the
needs of the people of his state is probably
as complete as can be developed in
one man, and of his integrity and worth
there can be no question. He has been
through every Indian campaign for
forty years and now holds a commission
as brigadier general on the staff of the
governor of Nebraska.

All success and honor to the future
Gov. Cody; there is nothing given him
but what is his due.

Col. Cody is one of the largest tax
payers in Nebraska, owning as he does,
some 4,000 acres of land, and has done
more to advertise the state than any
other man in it, and his "Wild West",
in Chicago being attended by thousands,
and by the crowned heads of
Europe, entitle him to be esteemed
more than any other man in the state
of Nebraska.

Chicago Sunday Democrat
June 18-93

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West show capped its own
climax to date, Sunday, the receipts being over
$19,000 from the two performances, while
crowds were unable to gain admission. Yesterday's
performances were almost as successful,
considering the great counter attraction of Chicago
day, the amphitheater being packed day
and evening.

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Boone and His Coffin.

Daniel Boone's bones rest in his beloved
Kentucky, but the house which he built for
a home and in which he passed his last
days, is a landmark near St. Charles, Mo.,
where it still stands in a good state of
preservation. In the latter days of the old
pioneer's life he occupied the attic of the
house as both sitting room and workshop,
and busied himself making powder horns as
souvenirs for friends. Here, too, he kept the
cherry wood coffin he had fashioned with
his own hands. Not long before he died he
used to sit in the coffin several times a day
"just to try the fit of it," as one of his old
acquaintances says.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.

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The Buffalo Bill Romances.

BUFFALO BILL stories are now "in season."
Everybody is talking of him, for everybody, you
are told, is in Chicago, where Cody is "a bright
particular star," with his huge Wild West Camp
Forum and 'Arena. The notabilities as well
as the masses flock to his headquarters and enjoy
his wonderfully varied "show," that is a
quick succession of surprises in marvelous feats
of horsemanship and marksmanship, and in all
nations parade. Readers may not enjoy all
this, for only the privileged few can visit Chicago
-those with well-filled purses; but all can
enjoy the stories in which Buffalo Bill is the chief
actor and "hero."

These romances are certainly among the best in
the whole range of American literature; they are
so original in character, so striking in incident,
and so novel in situations, as to command the
liveliest attention, and coming from the skilled
pens of Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, Leon Lewis,
Major Dangerfield Burr, U. S. A., and Doctor
Frank Powell, they, each and all, afford a literary
treat that is wholly unique and delighting.

Then, in this now national "Buffalo Bill
series" are the novels from the pen of Mr. Cody
himself, wherein he introduces a considerable
number of bis old trail confederates and field
and camp pards-White Beaver, Texas Jack,
the Powell Brothers, Wild Bill, Major Frank
North, U. S. A., (Fighting Frank"), Buck
Bravo, Captain Tayloe, U. S. A., Dashing Dan,
Dandy Dick--all "men with a record" in Wild
West annals and heroes by their own right.
These men are the actors and chief characters
in eleven stories, covering as many episodes in
real life in the wilderness and on the plains, that
are in truth "telling stories," which seem literally
to have written themselves, so familiar was
the narrator with the events and so stirred with
the spirit of the exciting dramas.

This entire series has been immensely popular,
as it well deserved to be, and each new
romance added to the list both shares in and
extends that popularity, as well as arousing
fresh interest in all previous issues.

No lover of the Literature of the Heroic"
in American life and romance can afford to
overlook these notable romances, and as they
are always in print, and are to be had at all
news stands, everyone who wishes may secure
them on demand.