Thrilling yarns of buffalo hunts, Indian life, and riding with the Pony Express abound in this exciting memoir of life in the Old West. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography
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By Peter Reeve
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Autobiographies are at the same time the best and the worst sources of life stories. You get the authentic voice, but that voice tells you only what it wants you to believe. Both these characteristics are particularly strong here because Cody's voice is such a distinctive one and because of his status as a supreme self-promoter. So this book will not give you the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but it will give you a real insight into the mind of a man who in many ways epitomizes the culture of the historic American West. Some of it may shock you; Cody describes how he shot a mule who had annoyed him by running away and boasts of how he scalped his fallen enemies. Hardly the stuff of popular myth. If you want to know how the west was really won, then reading this book (some of it 'between the lines') will tell you much.
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A book for American history buffs
28 Mar 2000
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This is an interesting book about William F. Cody, known popularly as Buffalo Bill, as told by himself. Hunter, guide, scout for the U.S. Army, and ultimately a showman, he tells about his adventures in a straight descriptive style. I found the first half of the book the most interesting, as he tells of his childhood and development. The many subsequent adventures are often fascinating. His various adventures and undertakings gradually take on a similarity from one chapter to the next, and the book gradually loses momentum. Cody expresses little if any sympathy about the massive buffalo killing that took place during his time, some for pure sport rather than for food gathering. Also, in the descriptions of his participation in wars against the American Indians, I found little if any sympathy for their situation. The book must be read with the knowledge that he was, after all, a hunter and army scout, in a century when nothing was going to stand in the way of the development and expansion of the country.
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