Show BUFFALO BILL HAS ENDED LIFE WORK FAMOUS HUNTER SOLDIER SCOUT AND SHOWMAN DIES AT DENVER Began Career as Trapper and Hunter and When Occupation Was Gone Went on the Stage and Organized Organized Organ Organ- Wild West Show Denver Colonel Colonel William F. F Cody Buffalo Bill Bm hunter soldier scout and showman for many years to nearly every man woman boy and girl in America through his wild west show with which he toured this his country and Europe died here January 10 Colonel William F F. F Cody was born bornn in n Scott county Iowa February 26 1 46 His ancestral stock Iwas was Spanish Spanish Span- Span ish ah English and Irish His parents moved west and took up a claim near Leavenworth Kansas then a frontier Indian post when Cody was 5 years of age At 10 years of age he found himself the head of the family owing to o the death of his father who was killed d in an encounter growing out of a dispute over the negro slave question Young Codys Cody's first employment was wasas wasas wass as s a courier between the freight wagon trains operating between the Missouri river and find the Rocky Moun- Moun In turn he became wagon master trapper hunter pony express rider ider and stage coach driver all aU giving giving ing ng a a. varied experience in a school the he from which left the scholar cholar an adept in every possible line Ine of or frontier activity An exciting experience In the union army as a soldier and subsequently as s a confidant and scout of his commanders commanders com corn manders in the desultory and guerilla guerrilla guer guer- illa rilla warfare of the southwest st left him himat himat at t its finish wel known as an allaround allaround all all- around frontiersman competent to advise advise to guide and to lead During the construction of the Union Pacific railroad young Cody attached attached at- at ached himself to a camp of or United States troops protecting the laborers and nd won his sobriquet of Buffalo Bill BiU by taking a contract to supply the he entire force with fresh Cresh buffalo buffalomeat buffalomeat buffalomeat meat for a certain period killing under under uner un- un der er one contract buffaloes On Onne one ne oc occasion aslon he killed the noted Cheyene Cheyene Cheyne Chey- Chey ene ne Chief Yellow Hand in the presence presence pres- pres ence nce of ot Indians and troops With the advance of civilization finding his occupation on on the western plaIns gone he went on the stage where he remained several years playing laying leading parts In dramas de de- life on tile We frontier |