"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West

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About This Book

A compact, authorized life-and-career account of a prominent frontier figure, presenting a sequence of episodes from childhood on the plains through buffalo hunting, frontier scouting, wartime service, and encounters with Indigenous communities. Chapters collect anecdotes of expert marksmanship, daring rides, and narrow escapes, describe cowboy and scout culture, and recount the formation and international success of a traveling Wild West spectacle, including European tours and official receptions. The volume mixes biographical narrative with reminiscences, military commendations, poems, and appended episodes to sketch the transformation from frontier life to public celebrity.

NOTE.

The compiler of this book desires to give credit to General Dodge’s “Thirty Years Among the Indians,” and to the Historical Publishing Company, for a few of the facts and incidents given in these pages.

John M. Burke.

John M. Burke

DEDICATION

TO
THOSE PIONEERS OF PROGRESS
WHO HAVE LED THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION INTO SAVAGE
LANDS, DEFYING DANGER, SUFFERING EVERY HARDSHIP,
OVERCOMING ALL OBSTACLES, OFFERING LIFE
AS A SACRIFICE WHEN CALLED UPON,
THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK.

John M. Burke

BUFFALO BILL.