Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <div id="if_i_000" class="figcenter" style="width: 396px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_000.jpg" width-obs="396" height-obs="600" alt="" /> <div class="larger"><div class="captionl bold"> “<i><span class="smcap">Buffalo Bill</span></i>”</div> <div class="captionr large"><span class="smcap">from Prairie to Palace</span></div> <div class="p2 captionl"> <i><span class="smcap">Compiled by John.M.Burke</span></i><br/> <span class="in2"><i><span class="smcap">with the Authority of</span></i></span><br/> <span class="larger"><i>GEN’L W.F. CODY (BUFFALO BILL)</i></span></div> </div> <p class="in0 small serif">RIALTO SERIES. No. 13. June, ’93. Monthly. Subscription, $8.00. Entered as second-class at the Post Office, Chicago</p> </div> <hr /> <h1 class="vspace"> “BUFFALO BILL”<br/> <span class="small">FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.</span> </h1> <hr /> <div id="if_i_001" class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_001.jpg" width-obs="363" height-obs="662" alt="" /> <div class="caption">W. F. Cody<br/> <span class="in2">“Buffalo Bill”</span></div> </div> <hr /> <p class="newpage p4 center vspace"> <span class="xxlarge gesperrt">“<span class="smcap bold larger">Buffalo Bill</span>”</span><br/> <span class="large bold">From Prairie to Palace</span></p> <p class="p2 center large"><span class="smcap">An Authentic History of the Wild West</span></p> <p class="p2 center wspace larger"><i>With Sketches, Stories of Adventure, and Anecdotes of<br/> “Buffalo Bill,” the Hero of the Plains</i></p> <p class="p2 center vspace">COMPILED BY<br/> <span class="larger wspace">JOHN M. BURKE (“ARIZONA JOHN”)</span></p> <p class="p2 center vspace">WITH THE AUTHORITY OF<br/> <span class="large wspace"><span class="smcap">General W. F. Cody</span> (“<span class="smcap">Buffalo Bill</span>”)</span></p> <p class="p2 center vspace sans">CHICAGO AND NEW YORK<br/> <span class="larger"><span class="smcap">Rand, McNally &amp; Company, Publishers</span></span><br/> 1893</p> <hr /> <p class="newpage p4 center"> Copyright, 1893, by Rand, McNally &amp; Co.</p> <hr /></div> <h2>NOTE.</h2> <p>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.</p> <p class="sigright"> <span class="smcap">John M. Burke</span>.</p> <div id="if_i_006" class="figcenter" style="width: 390px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_006.jpg" width-obs="390" height-obs="361" alt="" /> <div class="caption">John M. Burke</div> </div> <hr /> <h2>DEDICATION</h2> <p class="p2 center vspace">TO<br/> <span class="larger">THOSE PIONEERS OF PROGRESS</span><br/> WHO HAVE LED THE ADVANCE OF CIVILIZATION INTO SAVAGE<br/> LANDS, DEFYING DANGER, SUFFERING EVERY HARDSHIP,<br/> OVERCOMING ALL OBSTACLES, OFFERING LIFE<br/> AS A SACRIFICE WHEN CALLED UPON,<br/> <span class="large">THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES</span><br/> I DEDICATE THIS BOOK.</p> <p class="sigright"><span class="smcap">John M. Burke</span></p> <div id="if_i_008" class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_008.jpg" width-obs="369" height-obs="506" alt="" /> <div class="caption">BUFFALO BILL.</div> </div> <hr /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</SPAN></span></p> </div> <h2><SPAN name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></SPAN>CONTENTS.</h2> <table summary="Contents"> <tr class="small"> <td class="tdl in2">CHAPTER</td> <td> </td> <td class="tdr">PAGE</td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td class="tdl">Compiler’s Preface,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#COMPILERS_PREFACE">11</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">I.</td> <td class="tdl">Introductory,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_I">13</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">II.</td> <td class="tdl">The Scout,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_II">20</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">III.</td> <td class="tdl">What Is a Cowboy?</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_III">36</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">IV.</td> <td class="tdl">The Riders of the World,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_IV">44</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">V.</td> <td class="tdl">Indian Home Life,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_V">59</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">VI.</td> <td class="tdl">Expert Shooting,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_VI">71</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">VII.</td> <td class="tdl">A Most Famous Ride,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_VII">77</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">VIII.</td> <td class="tdl">Letters of Commendation from Prominent Military Men,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_VIII">85</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">IX.</td> <td class="tdl">Buffalo Bill’s Boyhood,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_IX">99</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">X.</td> <td class="tdl">Bill Kills His First Indian,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_X">104</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XI.</td> <td class="tdl">The Boy Miner,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XI">110</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XII.</td> <td class="tdl">Story of the Pony Express,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XII">113</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XIII.</td> <td class="tdl">A Ride for Life,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XIII">123</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XIV.</td> <td class="tdl">Held up by Road Agents,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XIV">127</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XV.</td> <td class="tdl">A Year of Adventures,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XV">132</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XVI.</td> <td class="tdl">A Soldier of the Civil War,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XVI">140</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XVII.</td> <td class="tdl">A Champion Buffalo Hunter,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XVII">145</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XVIII.</td> <td class="tdl">Scout, Guide, and Indian Fighter,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XVIII">151</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XIX.</td> <td class="tdl">Buffalo Bill’s Pards of the Plains,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XIX">159</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XX.</td> <td class="tdl">Border Poetry,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XX">181</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXI.</td> <td class="tdl">From Prairie to Palace,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXI">189</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXII.</td> <td class="tdl">The Wild West at Sea,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXII">197</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXIII.</td> <td class="tdl">A Royal Welcome,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXIII">207</SPAN><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</SPAN></span></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXIV.</td> <td class="tdl">A Visit from Queen Victoria,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXIV">219</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXV.</td> <td class="tdl">The Home Trail,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXV">227</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXVI.</td> <td class="tdl">Swinging around Europe,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXVI">232</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXVII.</td> <td class="tdl">The Last Indian War,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXVII">252</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdr top">XXVIII.</td> <td class="tdl">Back to Europe,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#CHAPTER_XXVIII">260</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td class="tdl">Appendix,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#APPENDIX">269</SPAN></td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td class="tdl">An Episode Since the Return from Europe,</td> <td class="tdr"><SPAN href="#EPISODE">273</SPAN></td></tr> </table> <hr /> <div id="ip_10" class="figcenter" style="width: 187px;"> <ANTIMG src="images/i_010.jpg" width-obs="187" height-obs="210" alt="" /></div> <hr /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</SPAN></span></p> </div> <h2><SPAN name="COMPILERS_PREFACE" id="COMPILERS_PREFACE"></SPAN>COMPILER’S PREFACE.</h2> <p>An association of some thirty years with the subject of these pages, a familiarity with his history gained by opportune meetings and conversations with comrades now living, and those since dead&mdash;who were witnesses of the events that assisted to make the individual prominent&mdash;makes me feel it a public duty to accede to the publisher’s request to compile a short, sharp, and veracious account of the unique history of this picturesque character.</p> <p>Born at a time, and reared in an atmosphere, the most romantic and adventurous known in the history of our American frontier, when the tidal wave of human progress, sweeping westward, was making history faster than the historians could record it&mdash;it was his fate to be in the field, and his fortune to grasp the opportunities to meet the situation’s requirements, and, in the beaten path of what seemed ordinary daily duty, to rise, by reason of his sterling qualities, his daring, and his courage, to the distinction of a leader.</p> <p>So quickly was the history of the central West recorded, as to make the Great American Desert of our childhood seem almost a geographical mirage, a tale of the romancer. It would seem to be a fairy story were it not for the fact of its settlement, and the evidences of its now almost ancient civilization.</p> <p>The busy, hustling citizen of to-day scarcely has time to think, and does not realize that the youths of the time of<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</SPAN></span> Benton, Beal, Fremont, Bridger, and Carson are the relicts of the perfected history and work that they inaugurated.</p> <p>One of the most picturesque characters that evoluted from the peculiar circumstances of the times is “Buffalo Bill,” Gen. W.&nbsp;F. Cody, N.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;N. The romance, the fiction, woven around his personality is dispelled in the white light of stern and veritable facts, just as the golden rays of the morning sun drive the mist from the mountain-tops.</p> <p>The compiler of the accompanying pages has attempted to present to the reader, in a terse, compact compendium of facts, the story of a career that, if given in a detailed biography, would absorb volumes, believing that owing to his prominence at home and abroad the public desire some authentic knowledge of the notable events in his career. In fact, here are presented a few plain truths, unadorned, for the benefit of those too occupied to have heretofore learned the story and triumphs of the frontier lad of nine years, from the wild Western scenes of Kansas and Nebraska, from the prairies of the Platte to the parlors of the East and the palaces of Europe.</p> <hr /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</SPAN></span></p> </div> <h2 class="vspace"><SPAN name="Buffalo_Bill" id="Buffalo_Bill"></SPAN><span class="larger">“<span class="smcap">Buffalo Bill</span>”<br/> <span class="subhead">FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.</span></span></h2> <hr /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />