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Title: Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No.
1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood
Author: Prentiss Ingraham
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A NEW FIELD! WITHOUT A RIVAL! JUST THE THING! TRUTH
STRANGER THAN FICTION!
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at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as Second Class Mail Matter.
$2.50 a year. Copyrighted in 1881 by BEADLE AND ADAMS.
December 14, 1881.
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Adventures of BUFFALO BILL FROM BOYHOOD TO MANHOOD.
Deeds of Daring and Romantic Incidents in the Life of Wm. F. Cody,
the Monarch of Bordermen.
* * * * *
BY COLONEL PRENTISS INGRAHAM.
[Illustration: MADDENED WITH FRIGHT, THE BULL BOUNDED
INTO THE AIR, SNORTED WILDLY, GORED THOSE IN
ADVANCE, AND SOON LED THE HERD.]

Adventures of Buffalo Bill
From Boyhood to Manhood.

Deeds of Daring, Scenes of Thrilling Peril, and Romantic Incidents in
the Early Life of W.F. Cody, the Monarch of Bordermen.
BY COLONEL PRENTISS INGRAHAM.
CHAPTER I.
PROLOGUE.
That Truth is, by far, stranger than Fiction, the lessons of our daily lives
teach us who dwell in the marts of civilization, and therefore we cannot
wonder that those who live in scenes where the rifle, revolver and knife
are in constant use, to protect and take life, can strange tales tell of
thrilling perils met and subdued, and romantic incidents occurring that
are far removed from the stern realities of existence.
The land of America is full of romance, and tales that stir the blood can
be told over and over again of bold Privateers and reckless Buccaneers
who have swept along the coasts; of fierce naval battles, sea chases,
daring smugglers; and on shore of brave deeds in the saddle and afoot;
of red trails followed to the bitter end and savage encounters in forest
wilds.
And it is beyond the pale of civilization I find the hero of these pages
which tell of thrilling adventures, fierce combats, deadly feuds and wild
rides, that, one and all, are true to the letter, as hundreds now living can
testify.
Who has not heard the name of Buffalo Bill--a magic name, seemingly,
to every boy's heart?
And yet in the uttermost parts of the earth it is known among men.
A child of the prairie, as it were, Buffalo Bill will go down to history as
one of America's strange heroes who has loved the trackless wilds,
rolling plains and mountain solitudes of our land, far more than the
bustle and turmoil, the busy life and joys of our cities, and who has
stood as a barrier between civilization and savagery, risking his own

life to save the lives of others.
Glancing back over the past, we recall a few names that have stood out
in the boldest relief in frontier history, and they are Daniel Boone,
Davy Crockett, Kit Carson and W.F. Cody--the last named being
Buffalo Bill, the King of Bordermen.
Knowing the man well, having seen him amid the greatest dangers,
shared with him his blanket and his camp-fire's warmth, I feel entitled
to write of him as a hero of heroes, and in the following pages sketch
his remarkable career from boyhood to manhood.
Born in the State of Iowa in 1843, his father being one of the bold
pioneers to that part of the West, Buffalo Bill, or Will Cody, was inured
to scenes of hardship and danger ere he reached his tenth year, and
being a precocious youth, his adventurous spirit led him into all sorts of
deeds of mischief and daring, which well served to lay the foundation
for the later acts of his life.
CHAPTER II.
A CAPTURE OF OUTLAWS.
When Will was but nine years of age his first thrilling adventure
occurred, and it gave the boy a name for pluck and nerve that went with
him to Kansas, where his father removed with his family shortly after