Quotes from Robert A. Carter

Memories of the Civil War played a part in the animosity between cowboys and townspeople. The drovers were primarily Texans; more than a

Some twenty-five thousand people toiled up the mountainside to pay their respects. Three thousand automobiles (which included some Sells-Floto circus wagons) also climbed the mountain that day, not without

new cowboy": respectable, honest, good-hearted,

The New York Times editorial writer eulogized-one might say "rhap-

said the Gazette, "Birmingham's thousands

According to a report in the New York Times of November 16, 1999, recent research suggests that even without the white hunters, the buffalo would have become extinct. Among the factors involved in the decline of the species:

Sitting Bull on the plains of the Yellowstone and his pursuit of Geronimo

the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians. Nor, though it is not usually considered a milestone in American history, should we forget Joseph F. Glidden's 1874 invention of barbed wire, which, more than the rifle or the plow, transformed Buffalo Bill's Great Plains by insuring the survival of thousands of family farms, and making possible the

of the Wild West's London engagement on the evening of October 31.

autobiography Memories of Buffalo Bill, written with Courtney Ryley Cooper, asserted that although long ago he had told her that he wanted to be buried on Cedar Mountain, "where the last rays of the

violence, and romance. Buffalo Bill is important to me as the symbol of the growth of our nation, for his life spanned the settlement of the Great Plains, the Indian Wars, the Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and the enduring romance of the American frontier-especially the Great Plains.

Opportunity. In 1988 Bill Pattis joined Charles Z. Wick, Director of the U.S. Information Agency, and participated in the first U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Information Talks in Moscow, involving leaders from American media and Soviet counterparts. As a result of this work, he was named Chairman of the American Delegation for print media in follow-up talks with the Soviets in February 1990 in Washington, DC, and

On May 14, nineteen days after leaving St. Louis, the brothers crossed the Missouri River and landed on the town site of Omaha, then a community of cotton tents and shanties, where lots were being

This day I looked forward to as one to help us out, worked every possible

Reviews and the show's own publicity always stressed its "realism." There is no doubt it

Tho was Buffalo Bill Cody? Most people know, at the very least, that he was a hero of the Old West, like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and Kit Carson-one of those larger-than-life figures from which legends are made. Cody himself provided such a linkage to his heroic predecessors in 1888 when he published a book with biographies of Boone,

engravers, printers, binders, and similar technicians who are not necessarily involved exclusively in bookmaking. Manufacturers have to be supplied, and that means the people who make type, ink,

Unless some long-lost trove of letters or ' a forgotten diary turns up, I believe that we probably .now know.all

Negroes raised during the Civil War. Continued Cody: "On the second day out we suddenly discovered on the opposite side of the Saline River, about a mile distant, a large body of Indians, who were charging down upon us. Major Armes, placing the cannon on a little knoll, limbered it up and left twenty men to guard it; and then, with the rest of the

what he witnessed in his lifetime: the invention of the telephone, the transatlantic cable, the automobile, the airplane, and the introduction of modem warfare, with great armies massed

In an essay in American Heritage magazine for September 1999, John Steele Gordon writes of biography as

Tilliam Frederick Cody, the legendary "Buffalo Bill," died quietly and painlessly at five minutes past noon on January 10, 1917, in the Denver home of his sister May Cody Decker.

McPherson. It was from William F. Cody. I pried open the lid, and a very unpleasant

At first the selection of Cody's burial site was under consideration both by members of his immediate family and by the city of Denver, but the family finally chose to leave the decision entirely up to the city.