The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide. an Autobiography
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : F.E. Bliss Subjects: Frontier and lead the way life — West (U.S.) Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be copious typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the All-purpose Books edition of this book you get free examination access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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This was fun to read. For us it is history but for William Cody it is his time. Life as he knows it. Books like this help us know ourselves better.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Like several additional biographies of this legendary Plainsman, Scout, Buffalo Hunter and Indian Fighter of the American Frontier, this book is comprised mostly of a reprint of William F. Cody’s own Autobiography. What makes it a better source than many of the additional reprints of Buffalo Bill Cody’s fascinating 1879 acount of his early life and adventures until he reached the age of thirty-four, this volume includes an brilliant foreword by another noted leader and historian of the Wild West, Don Russell. His foreword makes this first perfect reprinting of the original autobiography much more understandable and provides additional valuable insights into the man who coined the term “Wild West.” Buffalo BIll was, lacking any doubt, what we regularly refer to as “The Real McCoy.” While Cody could spin a excellent tale too, he was modest and humble about his own adventures. Later historians have mostly authenticated, with only minor corrections, his scary-thrilling, matter-of-fact and unadorned spoken recollections of his life and adventures.This is a very excellent read and hard to place down until the very end of the book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Autobiographies are at the same time the best and the worst sources of life tales. You get the authentic voice, but that voice tells you only what it wants you to judge. Both these characteristics are particularly strong here because Cody’s voice is such a distinctive one and because of his status as a supreme self-promoter. So this book will not give you the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but it will give you a real insight into the mind of a man who in many ways epitomizes the culture of the historic American West. Some of it may shock you; Cody describes how he shot a mule who had annoyed him by running away, and boasts of how he scalped his fallen enemies. Hardly the stuff of well loved myth. If you want to know how the west was really won, then reading this book (some of it ‘between the lines’) will tell you much.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The Wild West was an even more heroic period than is commonly understood. While Buffalo Bill became a self-promoter, basic facts are clear: he was a superior plains guide and scout and Indian fighter. He really was the master hunter of buffalo from horseback. He was a Pony Prompt rider, with all that entailed. He was friends with Wild Bill, Custer, and additional notables. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield (though sadly it was removed many years later because of a bureaucratic technicality of how he had been employed by the Army, not because of any change in the evaluation of the heroic deeds.
A most fascinating book. It gives one a different perspective to hear it from a participant.END
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5