Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index.
Contents
The Codys come to Iowa -- The move to Kansas -- Shipping on the plains -- The Pony Express and Will Cody -- Cody in the Civil War -- Scouting the Southern plains -- Bill and the buffalo -- A home at Fort McPherson -- The battle of Summit Springs -- Cody and the great buffalo hunts -- The Royal Buffalo Hunt of 1872 -- A taste of fame -- The road to warbonnet -- Last days as a scout -- The impresario rancher -- North Platte: home on the plains -- The birth of the "Wild West" -- On to Omaha -- "Buffalo Bill 's Wild West" -- Fort Yates and rescue of Sitting Bull -- Wounded Knee -- Buffalo Bill goes to Wyoming -- Denver and the end of the trail -- Remembering Buffalo Bill.
