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Author
Series
Plainsmen volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Black Sun
Terry C. Johnston
No one captures the glory, adventure and drama of the courageous men and women who tamped the American West like award-winning author Terry Johnston. His Plainsmen series brims with colorful characters, fierce battles and compelling historical lore.
Grueling winter gave way to bloody spring as Seamus Donegan and his fellow Army scouts rode west with the Kansas Pacific Railway. Led by the legendary "Buffalo" Bill Cody,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this dual biography, McMurtry explores the lives, the legends, and above all the truth about two larger-than-life American figures. With his Wild West show, Buffalo Bill Cody helped invent the image of the West that still exists today--cowboys and Indians, rodeo, rough rides, sheriffs and outlaws, trick shooting, Stetsons, and buck-skin. His most celebrated protégée, the short, slight Annie Oakley--born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio--spent sixteen...
4) Buffalo Bill
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Language
English
Description
A pictorial biography of Bill Buffalo that recounts his life, including his boyhood on the Kansas plains, his role in the settling of the West and his friendships with Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson.
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publisher, Inc
Pub. Date
c.2002
Language
English
Description
Having settled on the Kansas frontier, young Bill Cody and his family try to make a home for themselves, coexist with their Kickapoo neighbors, and stand up as abolitionists in spite of their neighbors' proslavery beliefs.
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His eyes had seen the glory—of the wild, wild, West... The life of Buffalo Bill Cody was as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, Union soldier, scout for General George Custer, slayer of Tall Bull and Yellow Hand—he saved Wild Bill Hickok's life, and beat the paths that made way for the railroad and the nation in America's rugged frontier. But now, in his final hours, old Bill
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Series
Eagles series volume 16
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"A long way from Montana Territory, Falcon MacCallister is back east, visiting his family, with Buffalo Bill Cody by his side. When the government asks both men to take a break from being famous to get back to fighting, Falcon and Buffalo Bill head west--into a hornet's nest of trouble. A renegade Indian has followed his vision of bloodshed on a once peaceable territory. A land baron uses the slaughter as an excuse to clear out a valley. And the U.S....
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c.2002
Language
English
Description
After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
10) Fair Weather
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Language
English
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In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
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English
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In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabotaging her favorite pony Magpie.
16) To the frontier
Author
Series
Adventures of young Buffalo Bill volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his brother, eight-year-old Bill Cody and his family set out from Iowa to make a new home for themselves in the volatile Kansas Territory.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Blood Brothers tells the story of these two iconic figures through their brief but important collaboration. Blood Brothers flashes back to 1876, when the Lakota wiped out Custer's 7th Cavalry unit at the Little Big Horn. Sitting Bull did not participate in the "last stand," but was nearby-and blamed for killing Custer. The book also flashes forward to 1890, when Sitting Bull was assassinated. Hours before, Cody rushed to Sitting Bull's cabin at Standing...
19) Buffalo Bill
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A profile of the versitile frontiersman known as Buffalo Bill.
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