Chapter I: Front Matter

Buffalo Bill Among the Sioux

OR,

THE FIGHT IN THE RAPIDS

BY
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham

Author of the celebrated “Buffalo Bill” stories, published in the
BORDER STORIES. For other titles see catalogue.

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CONTENTS

PAGE
IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY 1
I. WILD BILL’S CLOSE CALL. 5
II. AT FORT LARNED. 11
III. AN IMPENDING ATTACK. 18
IV. A BATTLE WITH REDSKINS. 21
V. WHARTON IN PERIL. 27
VI. THE RENEGADE. 33
VII. A BRISK ENGAGEMENT. 41
VIII. TREED BY A GRIZZLY. 46
IX. A STRANGE STORY. 51
X. IN THE RAPIDS. 63
XI. A DARING DESIGN. 75
XII. A PRECIPICE STRUGGLE. 81
XIII. A TERRIBLE FATE. 88
XIV. IN COUNCIL. 99
XV. AT DANGER DIVIDE. 107
XVI. THE DEATH RIDERS. 113
XVII. THE PRICE OF A LIFE. 119
XVIII. A STRANGE DISCOVERY. 131
XIX. EVIL HEART’S SUICIDE. 141
XX. THE RESCUE OF STEVE. 149
XXI. TROOPERS ON THE TRAIL. 154
XXII. WHITE RUFFIANS. 158
XXIII. UTES AGAINST SNAKES. 162
XXIV. A PALAVER. 169
XXV. TRAPPED BY DEATH RIDERS. 178
XXVI. IN NICK’S CAVERN. 185
XXVII. A HARD TASK. 191
XXVIII. STORMING THE CAVERN. 195
XXIX. THE HAPPY RETURN. 204
XXX. BUFFALO BILL IN A WRECK. 208
XXXI. JOE CONGO’S DIPLOMACY. 219
XXXII. IMPRESSING SAVAGES. 231
XXXIII. A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. 241
XXXIV. ARRESTED FOR MURDER. 246
XXXV. A TALK FOR A LIFE. 253
XXXVI. BLACK PANTHER’S HAND. 261
XXXVII. RUNNING THE GANTLET. 267
XXXVIII. AT THE TORTURE STAKE. 274
XXXIX. AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR. 286
XL. TOO MUCH FIRE WATER. 295
XLI. BLACK PANTHER’S END. 304

IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY

(BUFFALO BILL).

It is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of the _New York Weekly_. It was a dingy little office on Rose Street, New York, but the breath of the great outdoors stirred there when these old-timers got together. As a result of these conversations, Colonel Ingraham and Ned Buntline began to write of the adventures of Buffalo Bill for Street & Smith.

Colonel Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa, February 26, 1846. Before he had reached his teens, his father, Isaac Cody, with his mother and two sisters, migrated to Kansas, which at that time was little more than a wilderness.

When the elder Cody was killed shortly afterward in the Kansas “Border War,” young Bill assumed the difficult role of family breadwinner. During 1860, and until the outbreak of the Civil War, Cody lived the arduous life of a pony-express rider. Cody volunteered his services as government scout and guide and served throughout the Civil War with Generals McNeil and A. J. Smith. He was a distinguished member of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry.

During the Civil War, while riding through the streets of St. Louis, Cody rescued a frightened schoolgirl from a band of annoyers. In true romantic style, Cody and Louisa Federci, the girl, were married March 6, 1866.

In 1867 Cody was employed to furnish a specified amount of buffalo meat to the construction men at work on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. It was in this period that he received the sobriquet “Buffalo Bill.”

In 1868 and for four years thereafter Colonel Cody served as scout and guide in campaigns against the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians. It was General Sheridan who conferred on Cody the honor of chief of scouts of the command.

After completing a period of service in the Nebraska legislature, Cody joined the Fifth Cavalry in 1876, and was again appointed chief of scouts.

Colonel Cody’s fame had reached the East long before, and a great many New Yorkers went out to see him and join in his buffalo hunts, including such men as August Belmont, James Gordon Bennett, Anson Stager, and J. G. Heckscher. In entertaining these visitors at Fort McPherson, Cody was accustomed to arrange wild-West exhibitions. In return his friends invited him to visit New York. It was upon seeing his first play in the metropolis that Cody conceived the idea of going into the show business.

Assisted by Ned Buntline, novelist, and Colonel Ingraham, he started his “Wild West” show, which later developed and expanded into “A Congress of the Rough Riders of the World,” first presented at Omaha, Nebraska. In time it became a familiar yearly entertainment in the great cities of this country and Europe. Many famous personages attended the performances, and became his warm friends, including Mr. Gladstone, the Marquis of Lorne, King Edward, Queen Victoria, and the Prince of Wales, now King of England.

At the outbreak of the Sioux, in 1890 and 1891, Colonel Cody served at the head of the Nebraska National Guard. In 1895 Cody took up the development of Wyoming Valley by introducing irrigation. Not long afterward he became judge advocate general of the Wyoming National Guard.

Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill) died in Denver, Colorado, on January 10, 1917. His legacy to a grateful world was a large share in the development of the West, and a multitude of achievements in horsemanship, marksmanship, and endurance that will live for ages. His life will continue to be a leading example of the manliness, courage, and devotion to duty that belonged to a picturesque phase of American life now passed, like the great patriot whose career it typified, into the Great Beyond.

BUFFALO BILL AMONG THE SIOUX.