[CODY, William ("Buffalo Bill")]. The Last of the Great Scouts. Lond,1903. INSCRIBED BY BUFFALO BILL.
Sale 2065 - Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
Nov 14, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
800
Lot Description
[CODY, William ("Buffalo Bill") (1846-1917)]. WETMORE, Helen Cody (1850-1911). The Last of the Great Scouts. The Life Story of Col. William F. Cody "Buffalo Bill," as Told to His Sister. London: The Partington Advertising Company, 1903.
8vo. Illustrations after Remington and Deming. Original gilt-stamped and lettered red cloth (spine sunned, some rubbing to extremities).
New edition. INSCRIBED BY BUFFALO BILL: "With the compliments, of the subject, W.F. Cody 'Buffalo Bill', to E. Drake 1904." As a scout for the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars, Cody played a key role in military campaigns, providing invaluable knowledge of the terrain and indigenous strategies. Cody's fame reached its peak with his "Buffalo Bill’s Wild West" show, a traveling spectacle that dramatized frontier life and popularized a romanticized, often mythologized, version of the American West. Adams, Six-Guns 2372; Howes W-297 (1899 edition).
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