The Flagstaff sun-democrat., 1897-09-16
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER ls. 1897.
TOLD ABOUT BUFFALO BILL


 falo Bill, he was not known through the West when that title was conferred upon w. F. Cody, and to this day he has never come to the front to assert his claim.
 There is but one Buffalo Bill. And he is the most widely known American today, living ar dead. The quantity of prose and p"rtry, history and tic- tion, that has been printed about him in books, magazines and newspapers. If measured mp, would undoubtedly exceed the printed matter published concerning any historical character. with possibly ihe solitary exception of Napoleon Bonaparis.
 In his poem "Columbia to Buffalo Bill" Hugh Weimore. the western p,,et, mentions the fact that on his European tour Buffalo Bill received homage from countries that .'bowed not to Bonapar,e's sway" meaning. of course, the British kingdom par,ic- ularly.
 Buffalo Bill was honored by the na- tions of Europe but the queen of Eng land tried hard to outdo all the other crowned heads by the attention which she showed the distinguished Ameri- can. Her majesty showered diamonds upon him. and it is said that the queen found but one fault with the recent jubilee celebration. and that was on account of the absence of the cels- brated scout.
 One of the questions which has caused many dispute is Buffalo Bili's sge. One frequently overhears the assertion made that this knight of the plains has been before the public for sixty years. There is no excuse f,r tbis mistake. He was born in l8l8, and at the age of ten years, in 1858, shot his first Indian. Fms heroic act, which helped materially to save him. self and companions from massacre, made him famous, and chroniclers have never wearied of writing about him from that day to this.
 
 He is still under fifty, and if his hair IS touched by frost, it is the re- cult of commencing very young. aud enduring excessive hardships.
 The world knows him as pony ex- press rider. freigbter. stage driver, trapper, hunter. soldier, scout, mar shal. justice of the peace, legislator. and educator--for his congress of rough riders was organized originally by Col. Cody with the laudable intent to enlighten the world in regard to the'unkDOwn empire of the west--but much that would prove interesting re- mains to be written regarding that period of his life which was he bright est to him. before bis mother died. while he was acting as the sole pro- tector of his widowed mother and his baby sisters. That fond mother was wont to predict that her son would one day be the president of the United States. Could she have lived she would have had the qualification of seeing him decline nomination to the United States Senate. and to have read in hundred western journals . proposal to run him for the highest office in the land. IA that heroic mother had lived, all this might have interested him. for her sake; but poli- tics Lever seemed to have any charm for him.
 In the language of the marts. he has made oceans of money. and he has ex- pended millions of his wealth trying to develop his beloved west.
 The preseutseason his vast ranches in Nebraska. on the North Platte and on tho Dismal river will yiend an i'm mense harvest, and his big irrigation scheme in the Big Horn basin in Wyoming. whereby he is retaining and colonizing hundreds of thousands sf acres of valuable land, will have