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Title: Thrilling lives of Buffalo Bill, Col. Wm. F. Cody, last of the great scouts and Pawnee Bill, Major Gordon W. Lillie (Pawnee Bill) white chief of the Pawnees
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Winch, Frank, 1880- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 Pawnee Bill, 1860-1942
Publisher: (New York, S. L. Parsons & co., inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ards friendand foe in a befitting manner. I hero-worshiped Bufifalo Bill when a child, adored himin youth, and now in manhood my fondest kid dreamshave become crystallized in fact by the pleasure and honorof meeting him, knowing him and valuing his good friend-ship. I want every boy-man and every man-boy in theworld to know Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill as I knowthem, I want to poise these two greatest of our livingfrontiersmen as an example for the emulation of youngand old America—that those whose trail in life is cobbledwith the sharp-edged stones of adversity may take a freshgrip on determination and reach their goal of happiness,every mans heritage. In this volume I aim at nothing more than giving totheir million friends a simple, accurate and fictionlessresume of the two greatest and most noted living plains-men that America ever had occasion to cherish—theHonorable William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, and MajorGordon W. Lillie, Pawnee Bill. Frank Winch New York, March 6, 1911. (8)
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To The PUBLIC: * AFTER MANY YEARS of almost constantdevotion to my calling, I have determined toretire from active service at the expiration ot afinal and complete tour of the American continent.THEREFORE, following a series of Farewell Exhibi-tions which I hope to give in 1911 and 1912,1 shall per-manently abandon the arena, and seek to enjoy some of thefruits of my labors, which I feel that I have well earnedduring a long life of activity on the frontier, in the fieldduring the Civil and Indian Wars, and as a provider of themost approved drama of our National History. IT IS, however, my earnest desire to once more salute fromthe saddle my millions of friends and patrons, and I take thisopportunity to emphatically state that this will be myLAST, SOLE AND ONLY PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCEin the cities and towns nominated in the present itinerary, as it is mypurpose to leave the active management of the great Educational Ex-hibition, which I have created, in the hands of my partner, Major G

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