The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill
Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas
New York : Two Lions, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Explores how the man who became the most famous entertainer of his time and a legend of the "Wild West" grew up amid a violent regional conflict that would soon tear apart the nation.
Contents:
A note of caution to readers -- Use of terminology in this book -- Prologue, 1894 -- Losing Sam -- On the road to Kansas -- Slavery becomes real -- Billy visits Fort Leavenworth -- Arriving in the promised land -- At home in the valley -- Isaac Cody's bloody trail -- Pro-slave or free state? -- Billy sounds the alarm -- Billy meets the abolitionists -- John Brown's war in Kansas -- Father -- Billy the hero -- Trouble with the Mormons -- Billy and the Indians -- Billy rides the Pony Express -- Bily's volunteer war -- Billy joins the red legs -- Quantrill takes revenge -- Mother -- Private Cody : scout and spy -- A soldier's life -- Becoming Buffalo Bill -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- The later life and legacy of the boy from Bleeding Kansas -- More about Buffalo Bill and his times.
Subjects:
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Childhood and youth -- Teen literature.
Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Teen literature.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Childhood and youth -- Teen literature.
Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Teen literature.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography -- Teen literature.
Target Audience: 1070L
ISBN:
1477827188
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T BIOGRAPHY Buffalo Bill | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Biography | In |
T BIOGRAPHY Buffalo Bill | St. Andrews Indoors | Teen Biography | In |
T BIOGRAPHY Buffalo Bill | Southeast | Teen Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.