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Buffalo Bill Cody Frontiersman Hero of the Plains
A portrait of William F. Cody’s frontier life from childhood in Iowa to his rise as a famed scout and showman. The piece traces his early riding and trapping skills, escape from a Kansas mob saving his father, the Rome and Hays City schemes, buffalo hunting records, and notable battles with Cheyennes including his famous scalp duel with a warrior at War Bonnet Creek.
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William F. Cody
Lookout Mountain
Denver
Yellowstone Kelly
Paradise
Calif
Cody
Carson
Bridger
Scott County
Iowa
Isaac Cody
Kansas
Missouri-Kansas
Kickapoo
Horace Billings
Billings
California
Cody Trading Post
Kansas Territory
Fort Leavenworth
Lawrence
Majors, Russell & Waddell
Salt Lake City
Platte River
Old Fort Kearney
Wild Bill
Missouri
Salt Lake
Law
Majors
Russell &Waddell
Young Cody
James B. Hickok
Hickok
Deadwood
Colorado
Plains
Kansas Volunteers
Tennessee
Wild Bill” Hickok
General Custer
William Rose
Kansas Pacific
Big Creek
Rome
Dr. Webb
Hays City
Buffalo Hunter
Railroad
Comstock
Fort Wallace
Sheridan
St. Louis
Brigham
Lucretia Borgia
Buffalo Bill
Chicago
New York
James Gor
Don Bennett
New York Herald
Nebraska
Ned Buntline
Texas Jack
Bill
Milligan
Little Big Horn
Fifth Cavalry
Wesley Merritt
War Bonnet Creek
South Dakota
Merritt
Custer
Cheery-Raban Syndicate