Quotes from Robert A. Carter

thanks also to the Library of Virginia, the Library of Congress,

born there on February 22, 1841. Meanwhile, Isaac built a four-room log cabin on his claim, and there his first daughter in his marriage to Mary Ann, Julia Melvina, was born on March 28, 1843. It is altogether

what he recognized as the site of the Battle of the Little Blue. He told the colonel that Price's forces were "right on the edge of this bluff." During the battle Major General John

that she looked upon a future career as a stage shot, and she went to her first performance with the assurance of one who had been doing it always.

have listed in the bibliography the many books that contributed to this volume but would like to single out two for special mention. They are Don Russell's The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, which no writer on the Colonel could do without; and Nellie Snyder Yost's Buffalo Bill: His Family,

always a challenge. You must come to understand the person, the motivations, the key events that altered the course of history.

Although it had been announced that the coffin would not be opened, it was, at Mrs. Cody's order. For two hours the crowd filed by, two abreast, parents holding their children shoulder high. The ceremonies were in the charge of Golden City Lodge No. 1, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, acting for the North Platte lodge of which Cody had been a member. The Masonic burial ritual was read, as was an original poem dedicated to the scout by A. F. Beeler.

In Cody's version

there would have been no warfare. One of the great Indian warriors of history was Red Cloud of the Oglala Dakota Sioux tribe, who had a reputation for daring and ferocity. In June of 1866, Sherman called Red Cloud and several other Lakota Sioux leaders to Fort Laramie to discuss a new treaty to permit a new road to be built through Sioux territory. Even before an agreement had been reached, however, a battalion

of we are to believe Helen Cody Wetmore, one of William Cody's sisters, her family was descended from Spanish and Irish royalty, and were accordingly entitled to a crest. In her book Buffalo Bill, Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Colonel William F. Cody, published in 1899, she wrote that her brother was "a lineal descendant of Milesius, king of Spain, that famous monarch whose three sons, Heber, Heremon, and Ir, founded the first dynasty in Ireland about the beginning of the

Cody, Wyoming, 1977. Buffalo Bill Museum. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Peter H. Hassrick, Director, N.D. "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." Wyoming Horizons. August 1983. Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of the Rough Riders of the World, show programme. Copyrighted by Cody and Salsbury, Chicago, IL, 1893. Doherty, Jim. "Was He Half Hype or Sheer Hero? Buffalo Bill Takes a New

the lives of the Codys in North Platte, Nebraska. Two other volumes have been especially helpful:

shape of gunstocks. At its peak, the barn stabled eighty horses, while the ranch employed thirty men, the

the wagons were turned clear around, and many of the terrified oxen attempted to turn to the hills, with the heavy wagons attached to them. Others turned around so short

affinity for William F. Cody, who lived most of his adult life in Nebraska. My father, George W. Carter, could have seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West when it came to Omaha in August 1908.

biography much easier. On a personal note, I should like to thank Stanley R. Moore, Dr. Michael Rostafinski, and John Tebbel for advice and information; my wife and "first reader," Reade Johnson; and my editor at John Wiley, Hana Lane, for

His early education was haphazard. In 1847 Will's father hired Miss Helen Goodridge to

In March the Lincoln County Weekly Tribune, revising its earlier bullish report,

and he adopted her into his Hunkpapa Sioux tribe, giving her the name "Watanya cicilia," which means "Little Sure Shot." At the time, Annie was only twenty-four years old.

5 or 1 pound," for that performance only. Inflation makes it hard to calculate the actual value of a pound sterling at that time, but some idea of its worth may be obtained by recalling that a British working man with a small family could live in a city on just over one pound a week. For regular

and biographies of him have appeared at irregular intervals ever since. A search of "Buffalo Bill Cody

Colonel Carrington was able to construct three forts in the Powder River country: Fort C.F. Smith in Montana and Forts Reno and Phil Kearny in Wyoming. But Lakota and Cheyenne warriors raided the forts again and again, seizing supply wagons, attacking the men

and poison gas-a far cry from the days when Cody and the troopers of the Fifth Cavalry rode hell-for-leather across the prairie in pursuit of hostile Indians.

ROBERT A. CARTER