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“Already the Colonel wanted to build an addition onto the Irma,”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“By 1849, when news of the discovery of gold in California reached the East, Isaac Cody was a solid citizen of his community. In 1847 he contracted with William F. Brackenridge to clear a six-hundred-acre farm on the Wapsipinicon River.”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“and biographies of him have appeared at irregular intervals ever since. A search of "Buffalo Bill Cody”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Good-bye,”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Where the first trembling rays of the morning sun gleam upon the flowers and crags and snow of Mount”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“all shooting. Doc Middleton, the Nebraska”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“I did say that I would never have another Scout or western man with me. That is one whom I would work up. For just as soon as they see their names in print a few times they git the big head and want to start a company of their”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“flooded the lot, a thousand spectators were in danger. Cody and”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“When it comes to the on-screen portrayals, however, filmmakers have fallen far short of doing justice to his life. Perhaps the worst incarnation of Buffalo Bill was in the movie Pony Express, starring Charlton Heston as Bill.”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Everybody saw them, and anger and revenge mounted all day long as people filed past or remained”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“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”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Indeed, for one day, William Frederick Cody stole center stage from a world war.
The accolades were indeed impressive. Said Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles: "Colonel Cody was a high-minded gentleman, and a great scout. He performed a great work in the West for the pioneers and for the generations coming after them and his exploits will live forever in history."
In the years following, former president Theodore Roosevelt, in accepting an honorary vice-presidency in the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association, called Cody "the most renowned of those men, steel-thewed and iron-nerved, whose daring opened the West to settlement and civilization ... an American of Americans.... He embodied those traits of courage, strength and self-reliant hardihood which are vital to the well-being of the nation."
If Cody's fame and popularity seem strange to us today-he was, after all, celebrated for his prowess in killing, both buffalo and Indians-it is because his virtues were nineteenth-century virtues, and we live in an age of disillusion and cynicism.”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“sacred since his surrender at Fort Buford in 1881. McLaughlin”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“One of the command's marches pursuing the Indians was toward the headwaters of the Beaver, and General Carr asked Cody how far it”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“said the Gazette, "Birmingham's thousands”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“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 growth of enormous-and enormously profitable-cattle ranches.
In addition, I feel a personal connection.
In April 1855 my great-granduncle Alexander Carter Jr. and his younger brother, Thomas Marion Carter, left their home in Scioto County, Ohio, and headed west. Starting by steamboat, the two brothers floated down the Ohio River until it joined the Mississippi and then traveled upstream to St. Louis. In St. Louis they found little transportation west, so they walked, hitched rides, and rode horseback to reach St. Joseph, Missouri. There they caught a stagecoach to Council Bluffs, Iowa, riding on top of the stage, with seventeen men and women-a three-day ordeal.
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 offered to anyone willing to build on them. They refused this offer and pressed on to their final destination, DeSoto, Washington County, Nebraska Territory, where they found only one completed log house and another under construction. There they homesteaded the town of Blair, Nebraska. For three generations there were Carters in Nebraska, first in”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“a brigadier”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Heritage magazine for September 1999, John Steele Gordon writes of biography as a.genre: "If the subject is a household name, the biographer must separate the facts”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“shooting”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright @ 2000 by Robert A. Carter. All rights reserved Title page photo: Buffalo Bill and the Wild West show cast, c. 1908. (Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming) Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. . Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA'01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 750-4744. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012, (212) 850-6011, fax (212) 850.6008, email: PERMREQ@WILEY.COM.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carter, Robert A.. Buffalo Bill Cody: the man behind the legend / Robert A. Carter p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.. 477) and index. ISBN 0-471-31996-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917. 2. Pioneers-West (U.S.)-Biography. 3. Entertainers-United States-Biography. 4. Scouts and scouting-West (U.S.)- Biography. 5. West (U.S.)-Biography. 6. Frontier and pioneer life-West (U.S.) 7. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show-History. I. Title.
F594.B63 C37 2000 978'.02'092-dc2l [B] 00-020368 Printed in the United States of America . . 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
For my two beloved sons, Jonathan and Randy-they, too, are westerners”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“On the upside, Will's daughter Arta had pitched in to help Julia manage the Irma Hotel. Near the end of March Arta cabled her father that the books, statements,”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“After the services, the many flower offerings sent in Cody's memory were taken to the headquarters of the Denver Flower Girls Association, where they were dismantled, so that each of the several thousand children in the grade schools of Denver could be given a souvenir flower.”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“The golden age for magazines came in the quarter-century from 1825 to 1850, when the business as we know it today really began. In 1825 there were fewer than a hundred magazines in America; by 1850 there were more than six hundred, the survivors of between four and five thousand periodicals issued in that quarter-century. Three magazines founded during this period are still surviving: Scientific American, begun in 1845, and Harper's Magazine, founded in 1850 as Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Its rival was and remains the Atlantic Monthly, established in 1857.”
― Robert A. Carter, Opportunities in Publishing Careers, Revised Edition

“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,”
― Robert A. Carter, Opportunities in Publishing Careers, Revised Edition

“Other acts that were precursors of the Wild West were a July 4 commemoration in Deer Trail, Colorado, in which one Emil Gardenshire was crowned "Champion Bronco Buster of the Plains," and another Fourth of July celebration in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1872, featuring the riding of an unruly steer. And certainly Cody's buffalo hunt with Grand Duke Alexis was a harbinger of things to come, as were his hunting trips with General Sheridan, James Gordon Bennett and their friends, as well as the Earl of Dunraven. All that was needed, then, was to put the right elements together.
Cody realized that he needed to earn a lot of money to launch a big show, and he was too proud to ask his wealthy friends for funds. Then, in the spring of 1882, he met Nate Salsbury, when they both were playing in New York. Salsbury, who later became Cody's partner, claimed to have thought of the idea of the Wild West when returning from a tour of Australia with the Salsbury Troubadours in 1876. On the boat he had discussed the merits of Australian jockeys in comparison with American cow-boys and Mexican vaqueros with J. B. Gaylord, an agent for the Cooper and Bailey Circus.
As a result, said Salsbury, "I began to construct a show in my mind that would embody the whole subject of horsemanship and before I went to sleep I had mapped out a show that would be constituted of elements that had never before been employed in concerted effort in the history of the show business." In the end, of course, Buffalo Bill's Wild West went well beyond horsemanship to embody features of the West that had not been part of Salsbury's plan. Several years later Salsbury "decided that such an entertainment must have a well known figure head to attract attention and thus help to quickly solve the problem of advertising a new idea. After careful consideration of the plan and scope of the show I resolved to get W.F. Cody as my central figure."
When the two men finally met,”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“S. William Pattis founded and served as Chairman/CEO of NTC Publishing Group from 1961 until 1996, when the firm was acquired by Tribune Company (NYSE). NTC published”
― Robert A. Carter, Opportunities in Publishing Careers, Revised Edition

“The show is worth seeing-if it is worth”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“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”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“Unless some long-lost trove of letters or ' a forgotten diary turns up, I believe that we probably .now know.all”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend

“of Manchester." To present the rifle, a delegation of London's”
― Robert A. Carter, Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend