Helen Cody Wetmore

A look at the public life of the man known as a boy Indian-slayer, champion buffalo-hunter, brave soldier, daring scout, intrepid frontiersman, and famous exhibitor and also a son devoted to his widowed mother.

The boy who became "Buffalo Bill" got his first job as a mule-driver on the bleak Kansas plains, then became a a Pony Express rider, a cavalry scout, an Indian fighter, a buffalo hunter for the railroads, and a world-famous "Wild West Show" celebrity along with his friend, Wild Bill Hickok. Buffalo Bill Cody lived to become a legend of the Old West, they symbol of America's wild frontier. Here is the true story of his adventures, told by his sister,...