Publisher's Synopsis
I am about to take the back-trail through the Old West-the West that Iknew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, itsmarvels and its possibilities to those who, under my guidance, saw it for thefirst time.Now, going back over the ground, looking at it through the eyes of memory, it will be a still greater pleasure to take with me the many readers of this book.And if, in following me through some of the exciting scenes of the old days, meeting some of the brave men who made its stirring history, and listening tomy camp-fire tales of the buffalo, the Indian, the stage-coach and theponyexpress, their interest in this vast land of my youth, should be awakened, I should feel richly repaid...William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory, but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territo
