The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-01-11
BUFFALO
BILL" DEAD
IN DENVER
Famous Old Scout
Loses Last Game
Fight
PASSED ALLOTTED
THREE SCORE TEN
Led Life Filled With
Brave Deeds and
Adventures

last AZ 2 % p. "a "Wednesday win
his passing IL seemed 20 the the'i
sands OF friends who had cioself
followed the nght for life as ihs
iast yestige OF the old west 'he
"4ild and vooIly west had passef
with him
Uraemic poisonine which seq n
Tuesday was ,hs mmediats cty
OF Col. Cody. death Or East stated.
All OF Col Cody relauyes and
several friends and oldtime assoc
ciates were az the bedside when DE
died.
Two days before his death huAio
.8lll himself knew lnai the cai was
cniy a matter OF hours But tne
grim old pioneer. schooled 20 lcrti
tude, never waserea Generally De-
discussed his cominE death with rel
piiyes, He even mace plans l0g biz
funeral and insisted on plaliug
cards With his sister Ne met Arb
a. he met life--souorely and with
nug linching tie was conscious
ihru0ut his long sickness until ieN
hours before The enc
The body OF the famous scout Wit
lie m state IN The capitol al Denver
for = nours preceding the funeral,
which VII b. held sunday aft,TnO6n
After the services the remains 8ll
~ placed ~ a receiving vault. t0 ~
main until Decoration dsy when
ihes viii be placed in = tomb Leaa
from the rock at the TOP ~ Loah-
out mountain
Mule driver. pony express driver.
stage driver. scout. sDldier. hunter.
Snowman are a few Of tne occups-
tions embraced IN the picturesque
career OF Colonel William Frederick
Cody. better known thruou the
world as Buffalo Bill" From me
dav thai Ll~ father WAS Killed N q
night thar gave bloody Kansas if-
name. William r. Cody was never
idle
Col. Cody Was born 10 Scott co1r
~. Iowa. FEB. 2e. 1896 A; the age
of ~. already man IN size and
strength he had beer herder, mes
eenger and stage driver and hsC
won q name as dead snot and
horxeman with few equals ynd,i
4 Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston he sass
his FIRST indian fighting The citi
war found him priva,r N the
seventh Kansas cavalry. AN active
"Jayhawker' regiment. and for more
Than ten years after the close Of the
war be saw service. first as scout
and later as. chief OF scouts. in the
indian warse His commander IN
Guided Gems Sheridan. sherman
Miles Custer. Carr. Cook. ord arG
Fry--all the famous Indian aghtcrs
81 the period Il was when ne vas
chicf Of scouts under Gen Cook
tist b. won fame by Killing n
einglc combat the Indian chief. Vel
loN Hand, knife against tOmahawk.
In 1857 he won his title o. "Bnf-
ialo Bin" II was then that gang
81 200 men were lsying TIE tracks
Of he Kansas Pacific across th,
plains and were furnishing fof fresh
meat Cody volunteered no farns 3
the meat and ia IS months wiz hi.
borse Brigham and his tavorite
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