OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2975, 12 January 1917, Page 5

OBITUARY

s "BUFFALO BILL." \ Denver (Colorado), Jan. 10. Colonel W. F. Cody, known as "Buffalo Bill,"- is dead;—Aus-.N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ • . [William Frederick Cody, scout and showman, was born in February, 1846. ■ In 1860-61 he was a pony express rider, and from 1861 to 1865 a Government scout and 1 guide and a member of the 7th Kansas Cavalry. He then, contracted to furnish the Kansas Pacifio llailway with all the buffalo moat required to feed the labourers engaged in construction work, and in eighteen r months (1867-6S) killed 4280 buffaloes, earning tho name of "Buffalo Bill," by . which he was best known. From 1868 to 1872 he was again a Government guido and scout, and served! in tho , 6 operations against the Sioux and tho 1 Cheyenne. Ho became a- member of ' tho Nebraska Legislature in 1872. In ' 1876 he joined the sth Cavalry as a 5 scout. At the battle of Indian Creek he killed Yellow Hand, tho Cheyenne chief, in a hand-to-hand fight. During the Sioirx outbreak (in 1890-91) he vras a General of the Nebraska National f Guard, with J headquarters jiMiiPino. ' Creek Agency.. It is recorded 'that' he ' ' participated in onore Indian battle's " than any other living man. In.lßß3'lfe I becamo 'head of the "Wild - West t Show." Hβ was co-author of "The i j/Jreat Bait Lake. Irail, ; /