The Buffalo Bill MEGAPACK ®: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody by Buffalo Bill Cody & Helen Cody Wetmore

Author:Buffalo Bill Cody & Helen Cody Wetmore [Cody, Buffalo Bill]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Wild West, Buffalo Bill Cody, old west, western, cowboy
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2013-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

“Take up the White Man’s burden—

Ye dare not stoop to less—

Nor call too loud on freedom

To cloke your weariness.

By all ye will or whisper,

By all ye leave or do,

The silent, sullen peoples

Shall weigh your God and you.”

Of this past epoch of our national life there remains but one well-known representative. That one is my brother. He occupies a unique place in the portrait gallery of famous Americans to-day. It is not alone his commanding personality, nor the success he has achieved along various lines, which gives him the strong hold he has on the hearts of the American people, or the absorbing interest he possesses in the eyes of foreigners. The fact that in his own person he condenses a period of national history is a large factor in the fascination he exercises over others. He may fitly be named the “Last of the Great Scouts.” He has had great predecessors. The mantle of Kit Carson has fallen upon his shoulders, and he wears it worthily. He has not, and never can have, a successor. He is the vanishing-point between the rugged wilderness of the past in Western life and the vast achievement in the present.

When the “Wild West” disbands, the last vestige of our frontier life passes from the scene of active realities, and becomes a matter of history.

“Life is real, life is earnest,” sings the poet, and real and earnest it has been for my brother. It has been spent in others’ service. I cannot recall a time when he has not thus been laden with heavy burdens. Yet for himself he has won a reputation, national and international. A naval officer visiting in China relates that as he stepped ashore he was offered two books for purchase—one the Bible, the other a “Life of Buffalo Bill.”

For nearly half a century, which comprises his childhood, youth, and manhood, my brother has been before the public. He can scarcely be said to have had a childhood, so early was he thrust among the rough scenes of frontier life, therein to play a man’s part at an age when most boys think of nothing more than marbles and tops. He enlisted in the Union army before he was of age, and did his share in upholding the flag during the Civil War as ably as many a veteran of forty, and since then he has remained, for the most part, in his country’s service, always ready to go to the front in any time of danger. He has achieved distinction in many and various ways. He is president of the largest irrigation enterprise in the world, president of a colonization company, of a town-site company, and of two transportation companies. He is the foremost scout and champion buffalo-hunter of America, one of the crack shots of the world, and its greatest popular entertainer. He is broad-minded and progressive in his views, inheriting from both father and mother a hatred of oppression in any form. Taking his mother as a standard,

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