Buffalo Bill: From Prairie to Palace

About this eBook

Author

Burke, John M., -1917

Title

"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West

Credits

Produced by Richard Hulse, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains

Subject

Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49204

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49204

Release Date

June 13, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.“BUFFALO BILL” FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.
2. 2.NOTE. — DEDICATION
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.COMPILER’S PREFACE.
5. 5.“ Buffalo Bill ” FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. THE SCOUT. — ACROSS THE CONTINENT WITH THE FIFTH CAVALRY.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. WHAT IS A COWBOY?
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. THE RIDERS OF THE WORLD. — SHAKESPEARE ON THE HORSE. — BUFFALO BILL’S EQUINE HEROES.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. INDIAN HOME LIFE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. EXPERT SHOOTING.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. A MOST FAMOUS RIDE.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION FROM PROMINENT MILITARY MEN. — STATE OF NEBRASKA.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. BUFFALO BILL’S BOYHOOD.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. BILL KILLS HIS FIRST INDIAN.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. THE BOY MINER.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. STORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. A RIDE FOR LIFE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. HELD UP BY ROAD AGENTS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. A YEAR OF ADVENTURES.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. A SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL WAR.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. A CHAMPION BUFFALO-HUNTER.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. SCOUT, GUIDE, AND INDIAN FIGHTER.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. BUFFALO BILL’S “PARDS” OF THE PLAINS. — “WILD BILL” (J. B. HICKOK). — “TEXAS JACK” (J. B. OMOHUNDRO). — DR. D. FRANK POWELL (“WHITE BEAVER”). — MAJ. FRANK J. NORTH. — SITTING BULL. — “OKLAHOMA PAYNE” (CAPT. D. L. PAYNE), THE CIMARRON SCOUT. — NATHAN SALSBURY. — INDIAN NAMES OF STATES.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. BORDER POETRY. — BILL CODY. — BUFFALO CHIPS, THE SCOUT, TO BUFFALO BILL. — RATTLIN’ JOE’S PRAYER. — BUFFALO BILL AND YELLOW HAND.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. THE WILD WEST AT SEA.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. A ROYAL WELCOME. — AMERICAN WILD WEST EXHIBITION.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. A VISIT FROM QUEEN VICTORIA.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. THE HOME TRAIL.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. SWINGING AROUND EUROPE. — BUFFALO BILL IN VENICE. — THE WILD WEST AT THE VATICAN.—BUFFALO BILL’S INDIANS AND COWBOYS AT THE ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY OF LEO XIII. — THE WILD WEST MAKE THEIR ENTRÉE. — THE PAPAL BLESSING. — BUFFALO BILL AND THE ROMANS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. THE LAST INDIAN WAR. — AS BUFFALO BILL SEES IT.—HE THINKS IT LOOKS LIKE PEACE IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY. — THE SITUATION IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY A MARVEL OF MILITARY STRATEGY.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. BACK TO EUROPE. — CONCLUSION.
34. 34.APPENDIX. Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and the London Workingmen’s Association.
35. 35.AN EPISODE SINCE THE RETURN FROM EUROPE.
36. 36.WRITINGS OF MARAH ELLIS RYAN
37. 37.Untitled
38. 38.Transcriber’s Notes

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