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Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917

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• Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- Fiction
• Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- In literature

• Buffalo Bill (Hon. Wm. F. Cody) and His Wild West Companions, Including Wild Bill, Texas Jack, California Joe, Capt. Jack Crawford, and Other Famous Scouts of the Western Plains (Chicago: The Hennebery Co., ca. 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Own Story of His Life and Deeds: This Autobiography Tells in His Own Graphic Words the Wonderful Story of His Heroic Career (memorial edition; c1917), by Buffalo Bill, contrib. by William Lightfoot Visscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919), by Louisa Frederici Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Daily Review (souvenir booklet; ca. 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Historical Sketches and Programme (souvenir program; 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill" (1917 edition), by Buffalo Bill (HTML at PBS)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides; Including a True and Thrilling History of Gen. Custer's Famous "Last Fight" on the Little Big Horn, with Sitting Bull (New York and St. Louis: N. D. Thompson and Co., 1882), by James W. Buel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Plains: or, Lives and Wonderful Adventures of Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Capt. Payne, "White Beaver", Capt. Jack, Texas Jack, California Joe, and Other Celebrated Indian Fighters, Scouts, Hunters and Guides (St. Louis and Philadelphia: Historical Pub. Co., 1883), by James W. Buel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood (Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, vol. 1, #1; c1881), by Prentiss Ingraham
  • illustrated HTML at Stanford
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Buffalo Bill and His Adventures in the West (New York: J. S. Ogilvie and Co., c1886), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Bill Entrapped: or, A Close Call (New York: Street and Smith, c1915), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text)
• Buffalo Bill, the Border King: or, Redskin and Cowboy (Buffalo Bill Border Stories #1; New York: Street and Smith, c1907), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler: or, The Last of the Indian Ring (Great Western Library #141; New York: Street and Smith, c1909), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Buffalo Bill's Death Call: or, On a Red Trail (New York: Street and Smith, c1907), by Prentiss Ingraham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer: or, The Stranger in Camp (New York: Street and Smith, c1908), by Prentiss Ingraham (Gutenberg text)
• Buffalo Bill, The Buckskin King: or, The Amazon of the West (originally published 1890; Charles Bragin's Dime Novel Club reprint, ca. 1945), by Prentiss Ingraham (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Catalog of Dime Novel Material, Including a Section on Buffalo Bill (Red Bank, NJ: J.A. Hayes, 1936), by John Alexander Hayes (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill (Hartford: F. E. Bliss, c1879), by Buffalo Bill (page images at LOC)
• Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering From the Missouri to the Pacific and From Alaska to Mexico (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Carrie Adell Strahorn, illust. by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)

• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• With Axe and Rifle, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)

• The Mormon Trail: Yesterday and Today (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1996), by William E. Hill (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Recollections (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. c1920), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife (Philadelphia: Press of J.B. Lippincott Co., 1907), by Ellen McGowan Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Copies of Calamity Jane's Diary and Letters, Taken From the Originals Now On Exhibit at the Western Trails Museum, Billings, Montana (claimed Calamity Jane authorship disputed by historians; published ca. 1949), contrib. by Jean Hickok McCormick and Calamity Jane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane, by Calamity Jane
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Deadwood Dick on Deck: or, Calamity Jane, the Heroine of Whoop-Up (Beadles Pocket Library, v5 #57; New York: Beadle and Adams, c1885), by Edward L. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kit Carson's Autobiography (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co., 1935), by Kit Carson, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kit Carson's Fight with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians, at the Adobe Walls on the Canadian River, November 25th, 1864 (Personal narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion #5; Providence, RI: S. S. Rider, 1878), by George H. Pettis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Christopher Carson, Familiarly Known as Kit Carson, by John S. C. Abbott (page images at MOA)
• The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains: or, The Last Voice From the Plains, by William F. Drannan (Gutenberg text)

• With Carson and Frémont (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913), by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Life of Kit Carson: Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel, U.S.A., by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)

• The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York et al.: Harper and Row, c1904; edition published after author's death), by Buffalo Bill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920), by Buffalo Bill, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lulu Hurst (The Georgia Wonder) Writes Her Autobiography, and For the First Time Explains and Demonstrates the Great Secret of Her Marvelous Power (fourth edition; Rome, GA: Psychic Pub. Co., c1897), by Lulu Hurst (PDF and DjVu ar usg.edu)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Report on Blacklisting (2 volumes; New York: Fund for the Republic, c1956), by John Cogley
  • Volume I (Movies): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Radio - Television): multiple formats at archive.org
• Facts on the Blacklist in Radio and Television (PDF page images at MSU)
• Screen Guide for Americans, by Ayn Rand (PDF page images at MSU)

• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

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