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Illustrations: Mrs. Isaac Cody (Buffalo Bill's mother)
Little Billy Cody at age two
Buffalo Bill's boyhood home in LeClaire, Iowa
Leavenworth in 1856
Lawrence, Kansas, in 1865
Border ruffians from Missouri invade Kansas before Civil War
The stabbing of Isaac Cody
Conestoga wagon
Overland stagecoach of the 1858 period
Young Will Cody asking Mr. Majors for work
Buffalo Bill reports for work
Buffalo Bill at the age of 12
At the age of 15
Kit Carson, the famous scout
Jim Bridger, mountain scout and guide
Indians attack an emigrant train
Pony express rider ready to change horses at station in the Rockies
Pony express rider sees telegraph lines being erected
Wagon train, pulled by oxen, crossing the mountains
John Brown
General James H Lane
William C. Quantrill
Louisa soon after her marriage
Buffalo Bill, already a famous scout at 22
Luxury Mississippi-Missouri River steamers
A typical western settlement
"Indians hunting bison with bow and arrow" / Charles Russell
Indians hold up the U.S. overland mail
At Sand Creek near Denver, Col. [Colonel] Chivington led forces which surprised and massacred a Cheyenne village
Holding the fort
General Sherman commanded the Army fighting the Indians after the Civil War
Railroad building in western Nebraska at time Buffalo Bill supplied fresh meat for the workers
A Kansas Pacific Train stopped by buffalo
Rome moves in a day
Buffalo Bill hunting bison.
Illustrations: Pioneers hunt buffalo for food
General Sheridan
"Cavalry charge" / Frederic Remington
"Breaking the circle" / Schreyvogel
Sioux Indians capture a Union Pacific freight train in 1868, unroll bolts of cloth
Old Indian fighter, General George Crook
Wild Bill Hickok on the frontier
Wild Bill Hickok in his better days
Gen. E.A. Carr, commander of the 10th Cavalry
The continent is spanned, the train from east meets the train from west
Ned Buntline at the time he found Buffalo Bill
Bill Cody as a scout
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia
General George A. Custer, left, joins party of Grand Duke Alexis, right, in famous buffalo hunt
Buffalo Bill visits New York, buys fine clothes
James Gordon Bennett
Buntline, Buffalo Bill, and Texas Jack as they appeared in their first stage show at Chicago
Italian-born Mlle. Morlacchi
Poster for one of Buffalo Bill's greatest stage successes
Little Kit Carson Cody
Buffalo Bill as he looked in the Mexican suit he wore on stage and at the famous duel with Yellow Hand
Phonetic Sioux version of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Plan of the Battle at War Bonnet Creek where Buffalo Bill met Yellow Hand
The round hill from which Chief Scout Cody saw the Indians approaching, bluffs in the foreground
The campaign of the Fifth Cavalry when Cody scouted for General Merritt
"The climax of Yellow Hand duel" / Robert Lindneux
General Wesley Merritt
General Charles King
Only photo ever taken of Buffalo Bill in Indian dress
Captain Jack Crawford
Major Frank North
/welcome Wigwam, home built by Buffalo Bill at North Platte, Nebraska
Arta Cody
Arta Cody at the age of nine with her famous father and mother
Dr. Carver, Nebraska dentist and crack shot
Arizona John Burke
John Nelson, who drove the Deadwood Coach in Wild West Show
Poster of Buffalo Bill's first tour with Nate Salsbury and Captain Bogardus
Little Missie demonstrating that she can hit a target seen in a hand mirror
Annie Oakley as she appeared in Wild West Show
A Sioux family outside their wigwam
Annie Oakley's dressing-room trunk
Some of the 200 dime novels written by Prentiss Ingraham with Buffalo Bill as hero
Sitting Bull in Wild West Show with Buffalo Bill.
Illustrations: Short Man, one of the famous Indians in show
High Heron and Has-No-Horse
The Deadwood Coach as it appeared in the show
Popular Willie Spotted-Horse traveled in Wild West show
Chief Red Cloud, Buffalo Bill, and Chief American Horse
Plan for layout of the show when it was playing in England
Buffalo Bill and staff in London
The American Exhibition, Earl's Court, West Brompton, and West Kensington
The famous Deadwood Coach
The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Wild West Show at Earl's Court
Col. W.F. Cody and his old war horse, Charlie
Buffalo Bill before the Queen
The American flag, carried by Sergeant Bates
The scene in the arena
Miss Smith showing the Queen her rifle
The Sioux Chief Red Shirt presented to the Queen
The Queen and the Indian squaws
Distinguished visitors to Buffalo Bill's Wild West, London, 1887
The Wild West Show, the company forming in line
Buffalo Bill in Venice with some of his Indian braves
Rosa Bonheur painting Buffalo Bill in Paris
Buffalo Bill / Rosa Bonheur
Poster symbolizing Buffalo Bill's European tours
Col. Cody at height of his show career touring Europe
Buffalo Bill shooting the blue glass balls
Race between Indian, cowboy, and vaquero
King Ludwig III of Bavaria with his daughters visits the Wild West Show at Munich, April 24, 1890
German dime novel about Buffalo Bill
Attack on emigrant train
Buffalo chase / Carl Henckel
A gift to Buffalo bill from Russian Czar: a standard to hold the flag
A special pass signed by the Col. himself
Buffalo Bill, General Nelson Miles, Captain Baldwin, and Captain Miller
Peace meeting idealized into poster
Mrs. Cody and daughter Irma at the show
Nate Salsbury on tour
Col. Cody with Arta and Ora
The route book of the show for year 1899
The side show, a great hit although Nate Salsbury disapproved of it
Top going up when the show hits town, 1901
The Cowboy Band leads the street parade, 1901
Kids loved the show, would see it, hook or crook
Has-No-Horse
Johnny Baker throws the glass balls while Buffalo Bill shoots them
A typical Indian chief
Whirling Hawk
Flying Horse
Samuel Lone-Bear
Two Bulls
First
Col. Cody shakes hands with Chief Joseph
Drawing of Scout's Rest Ranch
The Col. relaxes in front of his tent
Katherine Clemmons, the English actress, with whom Buffalo Bill fell in love at height of his career
Theodore Roosevelt, a fellow rancher and cowboy of the West
Col. Cody always wore a Stetson made especially for him
A drawing by Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement
Buffalo Bill loved children
Sketches by Frederic Remington
behind the scenes at Wild West Show
The exotic Bailey influence on the show
Poster representing Annie Oakley
Sketches by Charles Dana Gibson
Col. Cody drove these horses in show when he could no longer ride in 1912
Col. Cody took Major Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) as partner in 1910
Buffalo Bill in the movies
Buffalo Bill with his Deadwood Coach in days when he was putting on weight
The Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, in 1908
Last picture of Buffalo Bill with his wife; no others were taken of them together in his later years
The Great Scout's last farewell on horseback at the end of the show
Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain above Denver.
Little Billy Cody at age two
Buffalo Bill's boyhood home in LeClaire, Iowa
Leavenworth in 1856
Lawrence, Kansas, in 1865
Border ruffians from Missouri invade Kansas before Civil War
The stabbing of Isaac Cody
Conestoga wagon
Overland stagecoach of the 1858 period
Young Will Cody asking Mr. Majors for work
Buffalo Bill reports for work
Buffalo Bill at the age of 12
At the age of 15
Kit Carson, the famous scout
Jim Bridger, mountain scout and guide
Indians attack an emigrant train
Pony express rider ready to change horses at station in the Rockies
Pony express rider sees telegraph lines being erected
Wagon train, pulled by oxen, crossing the mountains
John Brown
General James H Lane
William C. Quantrill
Louisa soon after her marriage
Buffalo Bill, already a famous scout at 22
Luxury Mississippi-Missouri River steamers
A typical western settlement
"Indians hunting bison with bow and arrow" / Charles Russell
Indians hold up the U.S. overland mail
At Sand Creek near Denver, Col. [Colonel] Chivington led forces which surprised and massacred a Cheyenne village
Holding the fort
General Sherman commanded the Army fighting the Indians after the Civil War
Railroad building in western Nebraska at time Buffalo Bill supplied fresh meat for the workers
A Kansas Pacific Train stopped by buffalo
Rome moves in a day
Buffalo Bill hunting bison.
Illustrations: Pioneers hunt buffalo for food
General Sheridan
"Cavalry charge" / Frederic Remington
"Breaking the circle" / Schreyvogel
Sioux Indians capture a Union Pacific freight train in 1868, unroll bolts of cloth
Old Indian fighter, General George Crook
Wild Bill Hickok on the frontier
Wild Bill Hickok in his better days
Gen. E.A. Carr, commander of the 10th Cavalry
The continent is spanned, the train from east meets the train from west
Ned Buntline at the time he found Buffalo Bill
Bill Cody as a scout
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia
General George A. Custer, left, joins party of Grand Duke Alexis, right, in famous buffalo hunt
Buffalo Bill visits New York, buys fine clothes
James Gordon Bennett
Buntline, Buffalo Bill, and Texas Jack as they appeared in their first stage show at Chicago
Italian-born Mlle. Morlacchi
Poster for one of Buffalo Bill's greatest stage successes
Little Kit Carson Cody
Buffalo Bill as he looked in the Mexican suit he wore on stage and at the famous duel with Yellow Hand
Phonetic Sioux version of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Plan of the Battle at War Bonnet Creek where Buffalo Bill met Yellow Hand
The round hill from which Chief Scout Cody saw the Indians approaching, bluffs in the foreground
The campaign of the Fifth Cavalry when Cody scouted for General Merritt
"The climax of Yellow Hand duel" / Robert Lindneux
General Wesley Merritt
General Charles King
Only photo ever taken of Buffalo Bill in Indian dress
Captain Jack Crawford
Major Frank North
/welcome Wigwam, home built by Buffalo Bill at North Platte, Nebraska
Arta Cody
Arta Cody at the age of nine with her famous father and mother
Dr. Carver, Nebraska dentist and crack shot
Arizona John Burke
John Nelson, who drove the Deadwood Coach in Wild West Show
Poster of Buffalo Bill's first tour with Nate Salsbury and Captain Bogardus
Little Missie demonstrating that she can hit a target seen in a hand mirror
Annie Oakley as she appeared in Wild West Show
A Sioux family outside their wigwam
Annie Oakley's dressing-room trunk
Some of the 200 dime novels written by Prentiss Ingraham with Buffalo Bill as hero
Sitting Bull in Wild West Show with Buffalo Bill.
Illustrations: Short Man, one of the famous Indians in show
High Heron and Has-No-Horse
The Deadwood Coach as it appeared in the show
Popular Willie Spotted-Horse traveled in Wild West show
Chief Red Cloud, Buffalo Bill, and Chief American Horse
Plan for layout of the show when it was playing in England
Buffalo Bill and staff in London
The American Exhibition, Earl's Court, West Brompton, and West Kensington
The famous Deadwood Coach
The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Wild West Show at Earl's Court
Col. W.F. Cody and his old war horse, Charlie
Buffalo Bill before the Queen
The American flag, carried by Sergeant Bates
The scene in the arena
Miss Smith showing the Queen her rifle
The Sioux Chief Red Shirt presented to the Queen
The Queen and the Indian squaws
Distinguished visitors to Buffalo Bill's Wild West, London, 1887
The Wild West Show, the company forming in line
Buffalo Bill in Venice with some of his Indian braves
Rosa Bonheur painting Buffalo Bill in Paris
Buffalo Bill / Rosa Bonheur
Poster symbolizing Buffalo Bill's European tours
Col. Cody at height of his show career touring Europe
Buffalo Bill shooting the blue glass balls
Race between Indian, cowboy, and vaquero
King Ludwig III of Bavaria with his daughters visits the Wild West Show at Munich, April 24, 1890
German dime novel about Buffalo Bill
Attack on emigrant train
Buffalo chase / Carl Henckel
A gift to Buffalo bill from Russian Czar: a standard to hold the flag
A special pass signed by the Col. himself
Buffalo Bill, General Nelson Miles, Captain Baldwin, and Captain Miller
Peace meeting idealized into poster
Mrs. Cody and daughter Irma at the show
Nate Salsbury on tour
Col. Cody with Arta and Ora
The route book of the show for year 1899
The side show, a great hit although Nate Salsbury disapproved of it
Top going up when the show hits town, 1901
The Cowboy Band leads the street parade, 1901
Kids loved the show, would see it, hook or crook
Has-No-Horse
Johnny Baker throws the glass balls while Buffalo Bill shoots them
A typical Indian chief
Whirling Hawk
Flying Horse
Samuel Lone-Bear
Two Bulls
First
Col. Cody shakes hands with Chief Joseph
Drawing of Scout's Rest Ranch
The Col. relaxes in front of his tent
Katherine Clemmons, the English actress, with whom Buffalo Bill fell in love at height of his career
Theodore Roosevelt, a fellow rancher and cowboy of the West
Col. Cody always wore a Stetson made especially for him
A drawing by Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement
Buffalo Bill loved children
Sketches by Frederic Remington
behind the scenes at Wild West Show
The exotic Bailey influence on the show
Poster representing Annie Oakley
Sketches by Charles Dana Gibson
Col. Cody drove these horses in show when he could no longer ride in 1912
Col. Cody took Major Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) as partner in 1910
Buffalo Bill in the movies
Buffalo Bill with his Deadwood Coach in days when he was putting on weight
The Irma Hotel in Cody, Wyoming, in 1908
Last picture of Buffalo Bill with his wife; no others were taken of them together in his later years
The Great Scout's last farewell on horseback at the end of the show
Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain above Denver.