Many Loves of Buffalo Bill by Enss Chris

Author:Enss, Chris
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781461746393
Publisher: TwoDot

Because the rugged frontier settlements where the Codys lived had no schools, William sent Arta and Irma away to boarding school when they were old enough. However, Louisa didn’t allow them to stay at school. As soon as William left home on a hunting or military expedition, she would have the school’s staff send them home. “She didn’t allow them to remain there as she should have done,” William remembered in 1904. “My daughter Irma would have had a much better education if [Louisa] had allowed her to remain.”10

Louisa’s bitterness over William’s long absences from home and his involvement with other women affected not only the children but also his friends and sisters, especially Julia and her family. For a while, Louisa managed the North Platte ranch by herself, but when the job became too much, William asked his brother-in-law Al Goodman to take over. Louisa took out her frustrations on Al. He kept William apprised of the difficult situation. “She is a strong woman,” William wrote Al in August 1891. “But don’t mind her—remember she is my wife—and let it go at that. [If] she gets cranky just laugh at it, she can’t help it.”11

When Al and Julia weren’t around, Louisa bad-mouthed William to the Goodmans’ son, Ed. Ed wrote letters to his parents about her unkind behavior and the accusation about his being a gossip.

I suppose Aunt Lue will do the same by me as she did with brother Will when he was through at North Platte…. She will turn the heart of Uncle Will against me if they make up again. As for me saying anything about Aunt Lue that is like a good many more stories; as I never mention their family troubles to anyone … until she came and told it herself and everyone knows it by now and they come to me to find out particulars but I do not tell them anything about it at all, but she told everyone.12

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