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Title: Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1.
Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood

Author: Prentiss Ingraham

Release Date: April 8, 2005 [EBook #15583]

Language: English

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A NEW FIELD! WITHOUT A RIVAL! JUST THE THING! TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION!
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Beadle's BOY'S LIBRARY of Sport, Story and Adventure

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Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as Second Class Mail Matter.
$2.50 a year. Copyrighted in 1881 by BEADLE AND ADAMS. December 14, 1881.
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Vol. I. Single PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY BEADLE AND ADAMS, Price, No. 1.
Number. No. 98 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. Five Cents.
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Adventures of BUFFALO BILL FROM BOYHOOD TO MANHOOD.

Deeds of Daring and Romantic Incidents in the Life of
Wm. F. Cody, the Monarch of Bordermen.

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BY COLONEL PRENTISS INGRAHAM.

[Illustration: MADDENED WITH FRIGHT, THE BULL BOUNDED INTO THE AIR,
SNORTED WILDLY, GORED THOSE IN ADVANCE, AND SOON LED THE HERD.]

Adventures of Buffalo Bill

From Boyhood to Manhood.

Deeds of Daring, Scenes of Thrilling Peril, and Romantic Incidents in
the Early Life of W.F. Cody, the Monarch of Bordermen.

BY COLONEL PRENTISS INGRAHAM.

CHAPTER I.

PROLOGUE.

That Truth is, by far, stranger than Fiction, the lessons of our daily
lives teach us who dwell in the marts of civilization, and therefore we
cannot wonder that those who live in scenes where the rifle, revolver
and knife are