The Alaska citizen., 1917-01-15
"BUFFALO BILL.

Col William F. Cody, lBuftalo alD. hunter. soldier. scout and show nan. 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 scontiersman and lived to see large cities built where he once hunted the buffalo and fought Indians,
 Col. William F, Cody was born in Scott county, la. February 26, 1S46. His ancestral stock was Spanish, English and Irish. His parents moved west and took up claim near Lea
 enworth, Kan, then a frontier h. dian post when Cody was five years 1ld At ten years of age he found himself the head of the family, ow lng to the death of his father, who vas killed in an encounter growing out of a dispute over the negro slave question. Young Cody's first employment was as courier be- tween the freight wagon trains ope- rated between the Mississippi river md the Rocky mountains. In turn aa became wagon master. trapper, hunter. pony express rider and stage coach driver, all giving a varied ex- perience in a school, the graduation rom which left the scholar an adept n every possible line of frontier activity,
 An exciting experience in the Uni 1n army as a soldier and subse Iuently as a confidant and scout of his commanders in the desultory and guerilla warfare of the southwest,
 eft him at it's finish well known IS an all around frontiersman, com potent to advise, to guide and to lead These qualities soon brought him to the attention of such dis finguished commanders as Gen. w. T. Sherman, Lieut-Col. Phil Sheri dan and Generals Crook, Custer, Mer ritt, Carr, Royal, Miles, Dodge and others and secured his appointment is chief of scouts in the United
 States army during it's numerous In dian campaigns in the west.
 His career in this line identified him with the great fighting epoch between the red man and the white man waged by Gen. Sheridan after the Civil war that temporarily ended in 1876 but was effectively finished in the Ghost Dance war in the de cisiye battle of Wounded Knee in l89O-91 campaign with the northern Sioux
 During the construction of the Uni on Pacific railroad young Cody at l taChed himself to a camp of United States troops protecting the laborers and won his sobriquet of Buffalo Bill" by taking a contract to supply Jhe entire force with fresh buffalo meat for certain period, killing under one contract 4,280 buffaloes. On one occasion he killed the noted Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hand in the presence of Indians and troops.
 He became known to juvenile Am erica in the stories of western ad- venture written by E. Z. C. JudsOn, who wrote under the nom de plume of Ned Buntline.
 With the advance of civilization. finding his occupation on the west ern plains gone, he went on the stage. where he remained several years playing leading parts in dra- mas depicting life on the frontier. Later, in association with Nate Sals- bury, he organized his Wild West show, with which he toured this country for many years, and on one occasion visited the principal cities of Europe, where he was warmly received and entertained by royalty. | He was elected to the Nebraska i legislature in 1872
 Colonel Cody in 1866 was married to Miss Louisa Frederici, who, with their daughter, survives him
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