Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
WILLIAM f.. CODY IS DEAD.
Buffalo Bill, Idol of Young America.
Famous on Frontier.


liam Frederick Cody (Buffalo BID
died here to-day at noon after hay
ing fought death as he often did on
the plains when the West was young.
Col. Cody was brought here to the
home of his sister on January 5, des-
perately i'll, and since then had been
lowering between lfc and death
All during his illness the idol of
juvenile America accepted his fate
like stole, laughing and playing
cards with his family as long as he
was conscious.
Col. Cody returned from his sea-
sons show work last fall much ex-
hausted. He went to his ranch at
Cody, Wyo., to rest, and on his re-
turn to Denver, about four weeks
ago, contracted severe cold. This
was followed by complications so Sc
rious that the colonel's wife and
daughter were called to his bedside
Col. Cody soon showed improve
ment, and on January went to
Glenwood Springs, Col, to recuper-
ate. On January he suffered a
nervous collapse and his physicians
hurried him back to Denver. For
years he had been an inveterate
smoker. His physicians said tobacco
had affected his heart seriously.
Funeral services for the noted
scout will he held Sunday afternoon,
when the body will be placed in a re-
ceivin2 vault in a Denver cemetery,
but the burial will not take place
until next spring, probably Decora-
tion day. Then the body of one OF
the nations most picturesque charac-
ters will be Inferred in tomb hewn
o! solid rock at the top of Lookout
Mountain. near this city. TO add to
hor appreciation Of what the West
owed him, the State OF Colorado will
receive the body into the Capitol
Sunday, there to lie in state for four
hours. Plans already are on foot for
the erection Of a suitable monument
at the final resting place.
Federal troops will escort the body
from the Capitol to the Elks' home
for services Sunday and other Fede-
raj troops will march in the cortege.
kilograms Of coincidence have been
pouring into the home OF Col. Cody's
sister to-day. They include mes
Sages from friends throughout the
country, one from President Wilson
and others from Gen. Hugh l.. Scott,
chief OF staff, and Gen. Nelson A.
Miles.
Col. William r. Cody ("Buffalo
Bin'D, hunter, soldier. scout and
Snowman, was for many years known
TO nearly every man, woman, boy and
girl in America through his Wild
West Show, with which he toured
this country and Europe. He was a
picturesque type OF the pioneer from
tiersman and lived to see large cities
built where he once hunted the buff
fa1o and fought Indians.
Col. Cody was born in Scott coun-
ty, Iowa, February &c, 1876. His
ancestral stock was Spanish. English
nd Irish. His parents moved West
and took up claim near Leaven-
worth, Kan, then a frontier Indian
post, when Cody was five years old.
At ten years Of age he found himself
the head of the family owing to the
death Of his father, who was killed
in an encounter growing out of a dis
pute over the negro slave question.
Young Cody's first employment
was as a courier between the freight
wagon trains operated between the
Missouri river and the Rocky Noun
tains. In turn he became wagon
master, trapper, hunter, pony express
rider and stage coach driver, all CIV
ing varied experience in a school the
graduation from which left the
scholar an adept in every possible
line Of frontier activity.
An exciting experience in the Un-
ION army as soldier and subsequent
ly as a confidant and scout of his
commanders in the desultory and
guerilla warfare Of the Southwest
left him at its finish we'll known as an
all-around frontiersman, competent
TO advise, to guide and to lead. These
qualities soon brought him to the at