The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-06-09
Ho" he Obtained has SoubyiQHcf- I'D.
centuries in Indian Cuwpoius-~l Rid(
Of 2) Miles IN E'9htrrn Hours
--Erciting Times With tie
RedSLiuS,

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From the San Francisco Call.
Nearly every one, male or female
young or old, is tinyel with low,
Of adventure and admiration of thos,
few whose daring deeds on Hood OF
Jield have made them famous. Che
can not help respecting bravery
whetke. moral or physical, and where
it Is aided ~ in1omitablc VIII, kec,
perception, Strict integrity, unassu
ming moacsty and unfaiIin5 good
humor, this respect mrryc> into d
still warmer feeling for the fortunate
man who POSSESSES So many good
qualities.
! William T. Cody, popularity known
as "Nnttalo Bill,' is fully entitled to
this character, as any army officer
with whom he has served during the
past twenty years will bear witness.
Cody is
AN EXCEPTIONAL. MAN,
for with every disadvantage of cdu-
cation and early training to contend
against, lie has steadily advanced
upon the road which chance enHin-
erred for him, keeping clear Of its
pitfalls, and passing, one after the
other, all his competitors, unit! he
stands to-day the foremost scout in
America. This is 10 fulsomr tlattery,
for every one who knows Cody &C.
knowlcdgcs HE worth and feels hon
orcd in claiming him as friend. The
writer VT MS Hr1lclc has had many
opportunities to judge the mans
character, and has always found him
courageous, keen -witted and abso-
lately faithful 70 his friends When
serving as a scout he is the associate,
not the Inferior, of the officers, is al
ways a Welcome visitor to their tents,
and hold receptions in his own camp
second onl y to those of the General
iii command. OF course his rowing,
vagabond life, has given little oppor.
tunlty tor the requirement Of society
polish, or of educational improves
ment, and his manner lacks the re-
hncment of the carpet knight; bn,
that ingredient of the true gentleman
which instlnctivc|y avoids any word
or deed that might wound the feel
lngs of another, that self-lenlal fol
the sake of others, and that almost
reckless generosity toward those who
are in trouble, are found in Cody
aud prove him to tc one of those
rare phenomena, a natures nobleman
Will Cody was born IN Scot Coun-
ty, Iowa, in 1889, and is therefore
Thirty EIGHT years of age. While he
was yet an infant his father, ~host
pioneer instinct always carried hin
to the fulthest frontier, became al
Indian trader in Kansas and NebraS
ka, aud it was in that wilderness au(
under such nDtoward circumstances
! that "Little Billy" his then nom DIT
plume, picked up tie rudiments o
education from the kindly wives 0
officers at different forts and tradin!
posts. III 1855 the boy started in l!i
on his own account, and drove al
army team until 1857, when he
VOLUNTEERED FOR THE MORMON WAR
and made the campaign under Sid
ney Johnston. During go and vi he
was employed as a pony express ride
on some of the most dangerous por
tons of the overland route. Early III
W he joined that celebrated ban,
, known as Gen. Blount's "Red-leg
ged Scouts,' and served with then
in Kansas and Western Missouri IN
til the close of the war; when he wen
out to the plains as Government
: scout and dispatch carrier. In 81
he was appointed chief hunter of til.
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company
and it was 10 their service that 1t
gained his soubrlQuet of Buffalo Bill,
on account of the immense number
of bison that fell to his rife. Whel
the Indian war broke out during tina
year he served with the army under
Gems. Hancock and Custer, and ii
1868 was appointed by Gen. Sheri
dan Chief of Scouts for the Depart
ment of tile Missouri. He remained
in service until 1871, when he had
the management of the Grand Duk'
| Alexis hunting-party. In February
1872, he paid his first visit to tn
East. Being then taken in hand b,
theatrical managers, who scented
fresh sensation in the good-lookinj
frontiersman, Cody made
Ills DEEUT AS 4 ronrLIGHT sGALFER
and since that time has passed hi
winters in paint and tinsel on TIN
, stage, his summers in patched buck
skin on the plains. So far superio
IS his love of actual to mimic warfare
that at the outbreak of the Sioux wa
last scar he forfeited an engagement
in the East, and hurried to the front
where he was at once appointed chic
of scouts, first to Gen. Crooks com
maud and after to the joint command
of Crook and Terry. Toward tn
close of the campaign, Cody perform
ed a remarkable feat of physical en-
durance, and the writer can vouc
for the truth of the following descrip
ton. Believing the war PRACTICAL
, at close, so far as any actual fight
ing was concerned, when the com
mand reached the Yellowstone Riv
er, he resigned his position and start
ed for the Missouri on a steamer
the commands meanwhile marcin
back into the Bad Lands on thei
bootless search for the untlpdabl
Sitting Bull. The steamer was de
layed for two days some few mile
below the late camD. and as she wa