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A complete issue · 48 pages · 1890

Buffalo Bill: His Life and Adventures in the Wild West

1890 · Free to read

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About this issue

This number features the opening installment of Buffalo Bill: His Life and Adventures in the Wild West, written by Captain Marcy Hunter. The narrative begins with young Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody's family emigrating from Iowa to Kansas in the early 1840s, when he was eight or nine years old. The story illustrates frontier dangers through an Apache attack on the nearby Beal family ranch. The Beals—old Mr. Beal, his wife, daughter, son, and enslaved workers—defend their home against a siege orchestrated by the Apache leader Lone Wolf and the discharged farm laborer "Lynx-eyed Jim." When Apaches breach the door with a battering log, the besieged inhabitants mount a desperate resistance from their upper floor stronghold, killing several attackers before forcing the raiders to retreat with significant losses. The tale emphasizes frontier hazards and Cody's early exposure to violence and survival in the American West.

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