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Helen Cody Wetmore. Last of the Great Scouts
Last of the Great Scouts
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GENEALOGY OF BUFFALO BILL
PREFACE
LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS
CHAPTER I. — THE OLD HOMESTEAD IN IOWA
CHAPTER II. — WILL'S FIRST INDIAN
CHAPTER III. — THE SHADOW OF PARTISAN STRIFE
CHAPTER IV. — PERSECUTION CONTINUES
CHAPTER V. — THE "BOY EXTRA."
CHAPTER VI. — FAMILY DEFENDER AND HOUSEHOLD TEASE
CHAPTER VII. — INDIAN ENCOUNTER AND SCHOOL-DAY INCIDENTS
CHAPTER VIII. — DEATH AND BURIAL OF TURK
CHAPTER IX. — WILL AS PONY EXPRESS RIDER
CHAPTER X. — ECHOES FROM SUMTER
CHAPTER XI. — A SHORT BUT DASHING INDIAN CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XII. — THE MOTHER'S LAST ILLNESS
CHAPTER XIII. — IN THE SECRET-SERVICE
CHAPTER XV. — WILL AS A BENEDICT
CHAPTER XVI. — HOW THE SOBRIQUET OF "BUFFALO BILL" WAS WON
CHAPTER XVII. — SATANTA, CHIEF OF THE KIOWAS
CHAPTER XVIII. — WILL MADE CHIEF OF SCOUTS
CHAPTER XIX. — ARMY LIFE AT FORT M'PHERSON
CHAPTER XX. — PA-HAS-KA, THE LONG-HAIRED CHIEF
CHAPTER XXI. — THE HUNT OF THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS
CHAPTER XXII. — THEATRICAL EXPERIENCES
CHAPTER XXIII. — THE GOVERNMENT'S INDIAN POLICY
CHAPTER XXIV. — LITERARY WORK
CHAPTER XXV. — FIRST VISIT TO THE VALLEY OF THE BIG HORN
CHAPTER XXVI. — TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN
CHAPTER XXVII. — RETURN OF THE "WILD WEST" TO AMERICA
CHAPTER XXVIII. — A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL MILES
CHAPTER XXIX. — THE "WILD WEST" AT THE WORLD'S FAIR
CHAPTER XXX. — CODY DAY AT THE OMAHA EXPOSITION
CHAPTER XXXI. — THE LAST OF THE GREAT SCOUTS
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Helen Cody Wetmore
The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"]
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Father reached Fort Leavenworth in safety, but the quarrel between the pro-slavery party and the Free Soilers waxed more bitter, and he decided that security lay farther on; so he took passage on an up-river boat to Doniphan, twenty miles distant. This was then a mere landing-place, but he found a small band of men in camp cooking supper. They were part of Colonel Jim Lane's command, some three hundred strong, on their way West from Indiana.
Colonel Lane was an interesting character. He had been a friend to Elijah Lovejoy, who was killed, in 1836, for maintaining an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. The Kansas contest speedily developed the fact that the actual settlers sent from the North by the emigrant-aid societies would enable the Free State party to outnumber the ruffians sent in by the Southerners; and when the pro-slavery men were driven to substituting bullets for ballots, Colonel Lane recruited a band of hardy men to protect the anti-slavery settlers, and incidentally to avenge the murder of Lovejoy.
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