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Show ra ,. I') km krmi m - . 1 ) i ' . V - ! ' 1 ! ; ' ' a ".' V l'p x h i tVi r t ; f f ' ' ! 5 ' - if "Y ' j 'I 1 "f -MX' I i By ELMO SCOTT iTSON ' Z IN JULY 1' last year, 'If "-ist fift;; years to pi Rtt e day 3 to the "n hour afteuffalo Bill fys fed Cody kille How Hand. Va a tl,e Cheye war chief, 'yaJP' in a duel th banks of War net creek n m in S(uth kota" (s0 ii''h-J C said the ppaper re-(30' re-(30' 1 ports of L affair), there was unveiled at Cody Memorial Me-morial Association mu at Cody, Wyo., Robert I,lndnenix'iiinting of that classic fight In fnr history. Ii Is well that this Bent was chosen as the subject f pictorial record of his Indian-fing fame, for among all the ndiar'ing feats which have been credits the gun of KulTalo nil!, the dnjlc killing of Yellow Hand on their Bonnet Is the only one whlcH so well fnithpntlented as to leavi doubt as ' t" Us actually having bred. At least such Is the ehslon one rciiclips after roadlng "lllaklng of liiKTalo lilll A Study laerolcs," published recently by tlibbs-Mer-rill eompnny, a book wtlndicates tli:it for once at least, ographer of this noted plainsman aken the tiiaihle to go back of cloud of li'iicnd and tradition thns gath-eii'd gath-eii'd around Cody, to si.he facts rail to write the true of his life. I lie circumstances uniiliich the bM was written are lifting. It was started as a collation by -Jiiphnrd .1. Walsh and bn Sals-bury, Sals-bury, son or Nate Salsj, Cody's partner in the Wild We&ow, but before the first chapter ) written Salshnry died. Walsh clued the work with the assistance Jlsbury's widow and sister. "Ourppst indebtedness, in-debtedness, however." sai.e foreword, fore-word, "Is to Johnny Rakce foster gon of Cody and custodiaithe mu-f.euii mu-f.euii at his grave. Our ose was not So much to tell the stjf a life as t study the processeswhlch a semhegendary figure was ted. Un-likeitliose Un-likeitliose popular heroes grow folklore fortuitously, BufTSiu wi tholsuhject of the dellheland -linlj'l.v skillful use of puif. "'.ill Codv himself Is . knoSvl UK- t'letlonized ven of is liu have bei-n appearing lmlfa (.Ijlury; to add another j wuld btijwoi se than futile. wl to ml ainl tell tlie true facts, wlsee, "I 10 is much more dramatjatie i tiaion and more rninanbe se i 11 'v are credible." And .ch ,' f 1"'' them to k n" w as true a I- ' j-A. ' 'I as hr vei .' x a t;3 i (ollowliu; in n -lor. -,ly llvt-'1 of ,1 This is not a .,. vestment that wm n. s.;T' EASY PAYIMENT """"r offering this stock al ' CM'X amount of 5100-00 : on of hp , payments. Ask any employe 'cr.'llcw J 1 THE NUMBER OF ; ?" FILLED FIRST COi 1 0 iu ly m .' u t ST ?& j 'v' ' AVI ! If I ; v Wn He first crossed the Missouri 1 whiilt was the jumping-off place of civ it on. He lived to see the plains , crussed with barbed wire and hard i roa -o hear airplanes zoom over the I pasi where the prairie schooners had lunfed, to promote a canal and pay : pror, "Ain't 1 tbe father of irri- i gatl?" to own roadside inns in the momins and even to project a dude ran . , . Ohose who worshiped him as the valiis champion that beat back the redn and saved an inland empire, fewjallzed that his active life on the Dial ended when he was but twenty-six twenty-six prs old. The Indian wars were ovethe plains had no future to offer hiinlnd he was wondering whether he (ld get a job In the city as coacb-maiflr coacb-maiflr driver of a fire engine. I Hn came Ned Bunt line, the dime noiPt, ind, on his heels, John Burks, probiy the greatest all-round press age that ever lived, to persuade him, maitfy him and make him their creilre. Ctninly no Individual, before the ' da of movies and radio, ever had sntv effective personal exploitation. Foneurlv t-alf a century he was con- ; tin usly held before the public, in the pug of nickel and dime novels, on thflpards In blood and thunder meio- dri i and in the astounding Wild WtiKhow which toured from the tank toV i to tbe very thrones of Eu-rolr Eu-rolr . j : th about him has been hard to mh Dy. Those who knew him In yoi: are dead or forgetful. The rec-ordture rec-ordture brittle, sparse and often fab-ulou fab-ulou For fortunately there is at the d:Hpnl of the authors of this volume vol-ume mass of "Buffalobilia" never before be-fore va liable to any biographer. . Blowing in these collections and In t historical records, we learn, as nsrr- be guessed, that the flesh-and-ood L;il Cody was somewhat less in ;nture tni- the Buflnlo Bill of the nk and the limelight. But we iearn, oo that his lift .- d .T'.-'.iei .i,iances nto which the professional romancers did not dflve. Even if he had fought all the Indians that were credited to hiin, the youth on the plains could never nev-er have rivaled in courage and endurance endur-ance 1 he man that Buffalo Bill became be-came us he fought debts and disaster and Illness and injustice In his old age. Let none doubt that ne was men a hero. T'ne story ! P.ulTalo Rill's life ns it is usually toM, Is so woll -known as to nocd no reU-Uinp hTe Imw lie was born In in 1810, weni with his parents to Kmi.Nts during the nti slavery li.tit of vlie fifties, utit ?inv his fattier wits killed hecause he w.is n f ree-Soiler. Then the eleven year-otii year-otii boy pot h .villi Kussell. Mnjur and Waddell, the fntnous out ill -f freighters, und near Vov Keiirney, Neli.. kllMl his first Indian Although "upon this feat, the whole t ruetiirc of lititTalo Hill's prestige as a Indian kill er was rea red." no hist .rim I n--ord of it lias ever heen fnund and oi,.fc tiydrociirhon ndnerats. super .'II, v resemhlinj: eon I hut related to L Li do occur in veins that 1 Her iss the hnlusin-; strata. Tin !HK", n'Ie Vt 'nS -""hwo.stcrn t'olo lido r. canopies. L q 4tl -f sv Mm such conflicting stories have been told about It that there Is a legitimate doubt as to the truth of any of the cirtumslances surrounding the incident inci-dent which gave Billy Cody the title of "The youngest Indian slayer on the plains." In fact the dime novelists, such as Col. Prentiss Ingraham and Ned Buntline, have so confused the record of Buffalo Bill's life with their exaggerations exag-gerations that doubt can easily be cast upon many other feats attributed to him and alleged to have been performed per-formed during his earily friendship with Wild Bill Hickok, as a soldier In the Civil war, as a pony express rider and as a scout In the Indian wars. Especially Is this true In the latter case, and In particular In regard to an Incident, second only to the Yellow Hand killing for Its publicity value. That was the killing of Chief Tall Bull at the Buttle of Summit Springs, Colo., in ISCn. Although Cody Is credited with having killed Tall Bull, strongest evidence points to Ma. t' rani Nortn, organizer of the famous Pawnee Scouts, as the actual slayer of that chief. It was at this time that Ned Bunt-line Bunt-line appeared In Cody's life and the heroics, which were continued by Burke during Cody's career as a showman, began. They "made" Buffalo Buf-falo Bill the popular hero and the man of world renown. Though ten years has elapsed since his death, that renown survives. The chapter, "The Magic of a Name." says : The spirit of Buffalo Bill . broods not only over the promontory (Lookout mountain. near Denver where he Is hurled) on the margin t the prairies where he chased the nuf-fnlo, nuf-fnlo, but nlfo over the Big Horn Basin where he pioneered and skylarked WvomfnK celebrates his birthday each February In the town which he founded he rides forever on a horse of bronze, and where the Cody trail winds oh toward the Yellowstone stands a replica of the TE rnnch house More than a decado after his death the name of Buffalo Bill still has mafdc to draw the crowds F.ailway advertisements lure travelers travel-ers into the Buffalo Bill country Dudes go to the ra-hes in .ncrensii numbers. num-bers. In the shops of O'dy they earnestly try on ar.d buy the chaps and sombreros and lariats which entitle en-title them to play for a little wh'l at be:np mush riders of the West. And each July dude and old-tl'ners nock to the O'dv Stampede -when the cowboys of tbe o.isin put on tV'ir I uidest whirls and come JinKltne In for a fro!i' of rnp;ns, stake racing, bul-dofririPK bul-dofririPK and bronco busting, to keep alive memories of the diys that Buffalo Buf-falo Bill made (clamorous. |
