John M. Burke

NOTE.

DEDICATION

CONTENTS.

COMPILER'S PREFACE.

" Buffalo Bill " FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.

CHAPTER II. THE SCOUT.

CHAPTER III. WHAT IS A COWBOY?

CHAPTER IV. THE RIDERS OF THE WORLD.

CHAPTER V. INDIAN HOME LIFE.

CHAPTER VI. EXPERT SHOOTING.

CHAPTER VII. A MOST FAMOUS RIDE.

CHAPTER VIII. LETTERS OF COMMENDATION FROM PROMINENT MILITARY MEN.

CHAPTER IX. BUFFALO BILL'S BOYHOOD.

CHAPTER X. BILL KILLS HIS FIRST INDIAN.

CHAPTER XI. THE BOY MINER.

CHAPTER XII. STORY OF THE PONY EXPRESS.

CHAPTER XIII. A RIDE FOR LIFE.

CHAPTER XIV. HELD UP BY ROAD AGENTS.

CHAPTER XV. A YEAR OF ADVENTURES.

CHAPTER XVI. A SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL WAR.

CHAPTER XVII. A CHAMPION BUFFALO-HUNTER.

CHAPTER XVIII. SCOUT, GUIDE, AND INDIAN FIGHTER.

CHAPTER XIX. BUFFALO BILL'S "PARDS" OF THE PLAINS.

CHAPTER XX. BORDER POETRY. BILL CODY. You bet I know him,

CHAPTER XXI. FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.

CHAPTER XXII. THE WILD WEST AT SEA.

CHAPTER XXIII. A ROYAL WELCOME.

CHAPTER XXIV. A VISIT FROM QUEEN VICTORIA.

CHAPTER XXV. THE HOME TRAIL.

CHAPTER XXVI. SWINGING AROUND EUROPE.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE LAST INDIAN WAR.

CHAPTER XXVIII. BACK TO EUROPE.

APPENDIX. Col. W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) and the London Workingmen's Association.

AN EPISODE SINCE THE RETURN FROM EUROPE.

WRITINGS OF MARAH ELLIS RYAN

Transcriber's Notes

RIALTO SERIES. No. 13. June, ’93. Monthly. Subscription, $8.00. Entered as second-class at the Post Office, Chicago

“BUFFALO BILL”
FROM PRAIRIE TO PALACE.

“Buffalo Bill”
From Prairie to Palace

An Authentic History of the Wild West

With Sketches, Stories of Adventure, and Anecdotes of
“Buffalo Bill,” the Hero of the Plains

COMPILED BY
JOHN M. BURKE (“ARIZONA JOHN”)

WITH THE AUTHORITY OF
General W. F. Cody (“Buffalo Bill”)

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers
1893

Copyright, 1893, by Rand, McNally & Co.