Buffalo Bill
Auteur : Helen Cody Wetmore
Date de publication : 2003
Éditeur : University of Nebraska Press
Nombre de pages : 255
Résumé du livre
In addition to giving a full account of Bill's early years, Helen Cody Wetmore offers some interesting sidelights on his adult life-for example, his experiences as a Union Army spy, a land speculator, a hotelkeeper, and a justice of the peace. (Called upon to perform a marriage ceremony, Cody concluded it with the impressive words: ""whom God and Buffalo Bill hath joined together, let no man put asunder."") Here are glimpses of Bill as a host to visiting potentates and chapters on ""Theatrical Experiences"" and ""Literary Works"" which are not only funny in themselves but convincing evidence t.