The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-04-24
BUrFALO BILL's HOME LIFE.

fomsbs World Uar,ld1

aornethinx About tho Town Where COY
Spends Day or Two Every Year.
fOmaha world-Herald.l
Everything is possible in the civilization OF
to-day. II somebody had stopped biii ,ooy
on bis way astride q beaving rolling. Dliio"y
broncho to meet the paymaster Of the Atcni-
son. Topeka aud Santa Fe railroad. ior VIII
he was killing buffalo as meat suPP.y'
twenty-five years ago. and had tod tue gan
boiling man on horseback that WITHIN ,iu"s
ter OF a century he would be as intiihalor %
sociated with the minds of the rising geneaa ,,
ton as Rip Van Winckle or even -nea.on
preserve us-General George Wasnins .ou
Mr Cody would in all probability Inv .,
plosively informed the kindly fore'uh"'' -
fame that he was "A two-em dash. w
There is little use III telling anybody nVT
we'll Cody Is known throughout the W.,
Out here We have photographs repreoens'n.
him as gazing dreamily from the balconies "a
the something's Other place in Venice cas-
usliy stopping TO feck bit OF dust on us
sonbrero in the shadow OF the Roman am
phitheatre and otherwise making hiinseil IN.
miliar with wonderful things that we mus.
hear OF at second hand But then We get
even IN the long run. A..
Although we cannot be present Wien 'no
Neapolitan artist presses the button on
Cody and Young Man Waiting -for-His-Sa'ary
neither can the wondering princes, po.en-
tates. states and sovereigntes" know as ih'i-
ma;ely tho home life Il the great Scout;
Few people have given that side Oh BunaIo
Bills career the slightest attention ana very
few know of the existence OF Mrs. CODY, Or
as the public would in nil likelihood insist on
putting 1t. Mrs Buffalo Bill. 1t is indeed
fact that for some six or seven years there
has been very little real home lie Ior Cody,
he being so constantly busted with ms snow
interests. but the homo is there whenever ne
happens in between seasons ana ~ N Ono 10" -
would satisfy almost anybody VINO Wouiu No
satisfied with distinctly Western nome.
The traveller over the Union Pachc ROAD
may. if he has been warned in time, look out
from the coach window as the tram pulIs lhto
North Platte and through the clear atuiVs-
phere of the prairie country see -FOUR iiiheS
away, rising out Of the prairie ltseli i0hs'
low building with the legend painted III
gigantic letters on the root:
'scoUI's RESI-"
Little more than this can be seen from the
coach and then the name of the ranch can
only be deciphered by means OF glass,
but if the traveller have the time 10 hire rig
at the city of North Platte and ride north
westward over the dusty prairie he VIII
shortly find himself repaid for his venture.
for he will see a picture OF Western prosperity
which will live long in his mind. Three
thousand acres OF the most beautiful stretch
of land on the Nebraska prairles. magnlh,
cent stock buildings and grand
old dwelling of q cheerlngly roomy appear.
snce, thousands upon thousands OF heac OF
cattle and horses here, there and away on on
the prairie and in their cOrTals; acres OF land
under cultivation: horsemen riding hltner,
and you evidently without hxed point III
view but unquestonably TO the posted ranch
man doing nothing unnecessary. ms Is
Cody's ranch. and 1t is here that he makes MS
headquarters for the most part Wheh he 10 On
this side of the ocean.
Here he breeds exceptional grades of stock,
every time he CONES from Europe 1t Is 10 IN
cidentally look upon the result OF expert
ments made with tne stock shipped from the
mother country. Here with his old friends
he makes merry the return and loIse'S tue
approaching departure.
COdy's ranch is very near 70 the Old site OF
the former Fort Mcpherson, which was his
headquarters IN his scouting days. 1t Is
slendidly equipped establishment but is near
ly ali the time IN the charge of a supernteud-
ent. Mrs. Cody and the one daughter remain
ing in the family circle live IN North tlatte.
Formerly Mrs. Cody occupied house
about a mile out of the city, where
another but lesser ranch Is located. but
recently this dwelling was burned and
she removed to this city. In the other days
this ranch was the scene OF much gayety, MISS
Arta Cody being socially inclined and being
leader in the little circle of North Platte go
ciety The ranch was popular place OF
congregation for the young people, and oc-
casionally. too. Scouts Rest was invaded
by merry thrOng but for the most part the
big place was lett - Buffalo Bill, who enter
tanned in his own fashion there.
Mrs Cody herself is an intensely domestic
woman. loving her home life above all the
| glory coming 10 her as the wife Of 30 cele
| hrated "A character as Buffalo Bill. She IS
| loyal to North Platte and North Platte instl-
tutions The ono little girl lett her attends
school there, as had her sisters, and the other
| little one. who eight years ago LETT the little
prairie settlement which had been her only
| homo TO return no more. sleeps under little
mound where the Nebraska prairie is her COW
ering ever Even Miss Arta, after visiting the
capitals OF the old country, came back TO
marry Nebraska lumberman. W. II. Boal
| Mrs Cody Is as yet on the sunny side OF lie.
and the gray has hardly yet come to her hair.
| Not altogether pleasant has her life been
since she left her Missouri nome back in the
sixties to join fortunes with Government
scout for in those early. Wild days there were
many hardshlps which could not even be
guessed by Eastern wives But she looks
none the worse for it now. Her social func-
| tons are perhaps not on as gorgeous q scale
as one of her means might easily bring about
in great city. but here in this section there
is no word OF praise too hearty and warm for
her as a mother. IA neighbor and hostess.
There is one phase of Coiys own character
which do not remember to have ever seen
! in print This is his vanity There Is no
auestlon that Cody is as vain as could be de-
sired but he isn't offensive in eyidencing it.
lie would be mighty strong minded # he
didn't evince some dissatisfaction. An IN
teresting story is told by one OF the many
war correspondents who happened TO be n
at the Indian outbreak recently. Speaking OF
Cody. he said
II happepel 10 be his room mate in a coun-
trv hotel up in the Pine Ridge Indian coun-
try in the winter Of 1890 / had the only room
in which two people were not lodged. and