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The fool of the family

Chapter 3: Bill Cody
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The narrative follows a gentle, clumsy thirteen-year-old stepchild nicknamed Soft Tommy who navigates a brittle household dominated by a proud stepfather and an indulgent mother while enduring misadventures and social snubs. A sequence of episodic incidents propels him into perilous and comic episodes — domestic blunders, a night in a coffin, encounters with a smuggler, a mistaken voyage, getting lost in the metropolis, and travel out west — as he seeks friendship and a missing father, discovers moments of courage, and ultimately confronts a tragic conclusion.

Bill Cody


At a rough estimate there are 400 million civilized human beings who have heard of Bill Cody, not under his real name, but by the name everybody called him, "Buffalo Bill."

His character made him an outstanding figure during a period of the development of America when a strong character was a matter of vital necessity.

We doubt, however, whether the man's work is fully appreciated, or ever has been. In the rush and bustle that followed the introduction of the railroad to the West, the results of Buffalo Bill's work were more or less overlooked, but a time is coming when this remarkable man's achievements will be fully appreciated.

This is the character whose adventures are dealt with in Buffalo Bill's Border Stories.

Read them. You will find them of true historical value.


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