Table of contents -- childhood -- early influences -- boy days in kansas -- youthful experiences -- in business -- hard times -- accidents and escapes -- adventures on the overland road -- fast driving -- questionable proceedings -- a soldier -- a wedding -- a millionaire -- earning a title -- champion buffalo killer -- a courier -- an appointment -- scouting -- a tough time -- an exciting chase -- a military expedition -- a desperate fight -- administering justice -- hunting expedition -- hunting with a grand duke -- sight seeing
Honorsan actor -- starring -- i return to the plains -- dangerous work -- conclusion
Summary
As a boy in Kansas, William Cody saw great trains of prairie schooners on their way to Utah and California. Men walked around with knives and pistols casually tucked into their trousers. Kickapoo Indian boys taught Cody to shoot with a bow and arrows. One of Cody's cousins ran away to sea, joined the circus and became a bareback rider. No wonder Billy became the larger-than-life Buffalo Bill -- the possibilities for adventure seemed limitless in the West of the mid-1800's
