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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

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

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