The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-01-12
BUFFALO BILL
CROSSES DIVIDE
FAMOUS SOLDIER, HUNTER AND
SCOUT DIES AT SISTERS
Identified With Notables on Two Con-
tinents and His Wild West Show
Known to Young and Old
Everywhere

Denver Col, Jan. 10-Col. William
Frederick Cody Buffalo Bill), soldier,
hunter and scout, died at 1905 pm.
here today at the home of his sister.
Col. Cody returned from his seasons
show work last fall much exhausted.
He went to his ranch at Cody, Wyo.,
to rest and on his return to Denver
about four weeks ago contracted Sc
we're cold. This was followed by a
complications so serious that the colo
nel's wife and daughter were called to
his bedside.
Col. Cody showed Improvement and
on January went to Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, to recuperate
January 5 he suffered a nervous col
lapse and his physicians hurried him
back to Denver. For years he had
been an inveterate smoker. His ply
sicians said tuberculosis had affected
his heart seriously.
Buffalo Bill, the idol of all juvenile
America, fought death as he often
had opposed it on the plains in the
days when the west wasyoung. "You
can't kill the old scout" he would tell
his physicians whenever his condition
would show improvement. And when
the doctor told him his life was ebbing
tbe colonel accepted his fate likes a
stole.
Buffalo Bill" 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. H was a
picturesque type of the pioneer from
tiersman and lived to see the large
cities where he once hunted the buffa-
10 and fought the indians.
Col. Cody was born in Scott county,
Iewa, February 26, 1S46. His ances-
tral stock was Spanish, English and
Irish. His parents moved west and
took up claim near Levenworth,
Kansas, then a frontier Indian post,
when Cody was five years old. At 10
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 dispute over the ne
gro slave question. Young Cody's
first employment was as courier be-
tween the freight wagon trains oper-
ating between the Mississippi river
and the Rocky Mountains. In turn he
became wagon master, trapper, hunter
pony express rider and stage coach
driver, all giving varied experience
in a school, the graduation from which
left the scholar an adept in every pos
sible line of frontier activity.
An exciting exnerience in the Union
army as soldier and subsequently as
a confident and scout of his command
ers in the desultory and guerilla war
fare Of the southwest left him at its
finish well known as an all round from
tiersman, competent to advise, to guide
and to lead. These qualities soon
brought him to the attention of such
distinguished commanders as Gen. W.
T. Sherman, Lieut.. General Phil Sher-
idan and Gems. Crook, Custer, Merritt,
Miles. Dodge, Carr, Royal and others
and secured his appointment as chief
of scouts in the United States army
during its numerous Indian 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 decisive battle of
Wounded Knee in 1890-91 campaign
with the northern Sioux
During the construction of the I'm
ion Pacific railroad young. Cody at
tached himself to camp of United
States troops protecting the laborers
and won his soubriquet Buffalo Bill"
by taking a contract to supply the en-
tire force with fresh buffalo meat for
a certain period, killing under-one con-
tract 4 4.2SO buffaloes. On one occasion
he killed the noted Cheyenne chief
Yellow Head in the presence of In
dians and troops.
He became known to juvenile Amer
lea in the stories of western adventure
written by 2. C. Judson, who wrote
under the nom be plume of Ned Bunt-
lin.
With the advance of civilization,
finding his occupation on the western