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When there was a Rally in Town he would carry a Torch and listen to the Spellbinder with his Mouth open. The Boy wanted to grow up and wear a Black String Tie and a Bill Cody Hat and walk stiff-legged, with his Vest unbuttoned at the Top, and be Distinguished.
I opened at the Bowery Theatre, New York, September 3d, 1877, with a new Border Drama entitled, "May Cody, or Lost and Won," from the pen of Major A.S. Burt, of the United States army. It was founded on the incidents of the "Mountain Meadow Massacre," and life among the Mormons. It was the best drama I had yet produced, and proved a grand success both financially and artistically.
That night I proceeded by rail to Fort McPherson Station, and from there rode horseback to the fort. Two companies, under command of Major Brown, had been ordered out. Next morning, as we were about to start, Major Brown said to me: "By the way, Cody, we're going to have a character with us on this scout. It's old 'Ned Buntline, the novelist."
One afternoon in the Murray Hill Hotel, when representatives of Yale and Princeton were discussing the various possibilities, a bellboy knocked at the door and handed my brother an elaborately engraved card on which, among various decorations, the name of Colonel Cody was to be distinguished.
Americans can rarely understand the amount of social recognition given by English duchesses to such American visitors as Col. William Cody, generally known as "Buffalo Bill."
He was endeavoring to get some one to take some important dispatches to General Sheridan at Fort Hays. I reported to him at once, and stated where I had met the Indians and how I had escaped from them. "You was very fortunate, Cody, in thinking of that cattle story; but for that little game your hair would now be an ornament to a Kiowa's lodge," said he.
The leader of the horsemen rode rapidly up, firing at random. As he neared the steamer he called out, "Where is that Kansas Jayhawker? We have come for him." The other men caught sight of Will, and one of them cried, "We know you, Bill Cody." But they were too late.
Had he succeeded he intended to cross the Atlantic by similar means. Later on, Cody turned his attention to the construction of aeroplanes, but he was seriously handicapped by lack of funds.
The charge of the buffaloes had nearly stampeded the picketed horses, and Colonel Royal, who, with the other officers, had watched the hunt, demanded, somewhat angrily: "What does this mean, Cody?" "Why," said Will, "I thought, sir, I'd save you the trouble of sending after the game." The colonel smiled, though perhaps the other officers enjoyed the joke more than he.
J. J. Black, age 27, longshoreman, born in Massachusetts. John W. Bowdoin, age 35, laborer, born in Sweden. Frank Boyd, age 43, laborer, born in Illinois. Pete Breed, age 26, laborer, born in Holland. W. H. Brown, age 40, laborer, born in Maryland. H. T. Cheetman, age 25, carpenter, born in Florida. Fred Crysler, age 26, laborer, born in Canada. Charles H. Cody, age 46, painter, born in Montana.
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