"BUFFALO BILL."
RETIREMENT OF THE GREAT . SHOWMAN. (SYDNEY , SPECIAL) i (Received August 1, 8.80 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. I - "Buffalo Bill' (Colonel Cody),, for forty-one years a showmlw, is, retiring "to hia ranch at Wyoming. ; His i business is in the hands of a receiver,. I [William Frederick Cody, scout and showman, was born in 1846... His i fatherr 1 ' was killed in the' "Border War" in Kansas. In 1860-61 Cpdy was a p<my express rider, and ,from 1861 a Government Soout and guide# and a member of the 7th Kan&B<Gbr<!.: airy. Later he ooiatracted.td'furiiißh.'; Railway vfitii all the buffalo meat required to feed the -kbow'ea , .engaged in abstraction; ' andf'in-.H.x^4nx^h L '9 > 'T:kil^ed,,. 42Bo Mraing 'the naimd of "fiuf-i felo tiai/'" bjr which be is best known. , Afterwards he returned to scouting, I andsentwfin the operations against the Sioux *nd Cheyenne. In the battle of Indiana Creek he killed; Yellow Hand, the, Cheyenne chiefs in a; hand-to-hand fight. Colonel Cody participated in more Indian battlea than any other living man.- Since 1889 he has been at the head of "The Wild West Show."]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 August 1913, Page 5
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183"BUFFALO BILL." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 August 1913, Page 5
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