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Incidents i'm the Career of the Hon. VIM.
Cody, Retter Known as s'BuffaIO BilI'-
How He Obtained His SObriquet-Ad-
ventures i'm Indian Campaigns.
From the san Francisco Call
Nearly every one, male or female,
young or old, is tinged with love of
adventure and admiration of those few
whose daring deeds on flood or field
have made them famous. One cannot
help respecting bravery, whether moral
or physical, and where it is aided by in
domitable will, keen perception, strict
integrity, unassuming modesty and I'M
failing good humor, this respect merges
into still warmer feeling for the FORUM
ate man who possesses so many good
qualities
William t. Cody, popularly known as.
"Buffalo Bill, = is fully entitled to this
character, as any army officer with
whom he has served during the past 20
years will bear witness. Cody is q r
AN EXCEPTIONAL MAN,
for, with every disadvantage of educa-
ton and early training to contend
against, he has steadily advanced upon
the road which chance engineered for
him, keeping clear of its pitfalls, and
passing, one after the other, all his COM
petitors, until he stands to-day the fore
most scout in America. This is no full
some fattery, for every one who knows
Cody acknowledges his worth and feels
honored in claiming him as a friend.
The writer of this article has had many
opportunities to judge the mans char
acter, and has always found him
courageous, keen-witted and absolutely
faithful to his friends When serving as
a scout he is the associate, not the in
ferior, of the officers, is always a well
come visitor to their tents, and holds re-
ceptions in his own camp second only to
those of the General in command. OF
course, his rowing, vagaboud re, has
given little opportunity for the acquire
ment of society polish, or of educational
Improvement, and his manner lacks the
refinement of the carpet knight; but
that ingredient of the true gentleman,
which instinctively avoids any word or
deed that might wound the feelings of
another, that self-denial for the sake of
others, and that almost reckless gener-
osity toward those who are in trouble,
are found in Cody, and prove him to be
one of those rare phenomena, a NATURES
nObleman.
VIII Cody was born i'm Scott County,
Iowa, in 1889, and is therefore thirty
eight years of age. While he was yet an
infant his father, whose pioneer instincts
always carried him to the furthest from
tier, became an Indian trader in Kansas
and Nebraska, and it was in that wilder
ness and under such untoward circum-
stances. that Little Billy .his-then.
nom de plume, picked mp the rudiments
of education from the kindlywives of
officers at different forts and trading
posts. In 1856 the boy started in life on
his own account, and drove an army
team until 1857, when he
VOLUNTEERED FOR TIE MORMON WAR.
and made the campaign under Sidney
Johnston. During go and '61 he was
mployed as a pony express rider on
some Of the most dangerous portions of
the overland route Early in 90 he
Joined that celebrated band known as
Gen. Blount's "Redlegged Scouts, ="
and served with them in Kansas and
Western Missouri until the close of the
war, whenrhe went out 90 the plains as
GovernuneIt scout and dispatch carrier
In Co he was appointed chief hunter OF
the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company,
and il was in their service that he gained
his sobriQaet OF Buffalo Bill,'' on &C
count Of the immense number of bison
that fell 10 his rife. When the Indian
war broke out, during that year he
served with the army under Gen. Han
cock and Custer, snd in 1865 was APP
pointed by General Sheridan Chief of
Scouts for the Department of the Mis-
souri. He remained in service until
lS7h, Whon ne had the srnanagemept-,,f
the Grand Duke Alexis hunting parts
In February, 1872, he paid his first visit