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Cody in Frontier Life and Legend of Buffalo Bill
A long profile recounts William F. Cody born 1845 in Iowa rising from boyhood trapping and pony express to famed frontiersman. It notes his early Indian fighting reputation, travels with Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill's big buffalo hunting record, Custer era exploits, stage show fame, and death in Denver.
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Lookout Mountain
Denver
Yellowstone Kelly
Paradise
Cal
Cody
Carson
Bridger
William F. Cody
Scott County
Iowa
Isaac Cody
Kansas
Missouri-Kansas
Kickapoo
Horace Billings
Billings
California
Cody Trading Post
Kansas Territory
Fort Leavenworth
Lawrence
Young Cody
Majors, Russell & Waddell
Salt Lake City
Platte River
Old Fort Kearney
Missouri
Salt Lake
Majors
Russell & Waddell
James B. Hickok
Wild Bill
Hickok
Deadwood
Colorado
Plains
Kansas Volunteers
Tennessee
Custer
William Rose
Kansas Pacific Railway
Big Creek
Rome
Howl
Dr. Webb
Comstock
Fort Wallace
Sheridan
Kan
St. Louis
Brigham
Lucretia Borgia
Kansas Pacific
Buffalo Bill
Army of the Plains
General Sheridan
Chicago
New York
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Nebraska
Ned Buntline
Texas Jack
Nec Buntline
Bill
Milligan
Merritt
Iack