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Title: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)

Author: Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

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Language: English

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[Illustration: BUFFALO BILL--COL. WILLIAM F. CODY]

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUFFALO BILL
(COLONEL W.F. CODY)

ILLUSTRATED BY
N.C. WYETH

1920

by Cosmopolitan Book Corporation

Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated
On Murray Hill, New York

Printed in the U.S.A. by
Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
Rahway, N.J.

Dedicated to My Nephew and Niece,
George Cody Goodman, Anna Bond Goodman,
and family.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Buffalo Bill--Col. William F. Cody. _Frontispiece_

He Shoved a Pistol in the Man's Face and Said: "I'm Calling the Hand
That's in Your Hat"

Chief Satanta Passed the Peace-Pipe to General Sherman and Said: "My
Great White Brothers"

Winning My Name--"Buffalo Bill"

It Was No Time for Argument. I Fired and Killed Him

Pursued by Fifteen Bloodthirsty Indians, I Had a Running Fight of
Eleven Miles

A Shower of Arrows Rained on Our Dead Mules from the Closing Circle of
Red-Men

Stage-Coach Driving Was Full of Hair-Raising Adventures

CHAPTER I

I am about to take the back-trail through the Old West--the West that I
knew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its
beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under my
guidance, saw it for the first time.

Now, going back over the ground, looking at it through the eyes of
memory, it will be a still greater pleasure to take with me the many
readers of this book. And if, in following me through some of the
exciting scenes of the old days, meeting some of the brave men who made
its stirring history, and listening to my camp-fire tales of the
buffalo, the Indian, the stage-coach and the pony-express, their
interest in this vast land of