Identifier: thrillinglivesof00win (find matches)
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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ly pandemonium reigned; the assassin sprang atthe prostrate body as it rolled to the ground. Men, this is not fair play, exclaimed Billy Cody.Give father a chance. The better element in the crowd overpowered the mur-derer. Realizing the effect of this lawlessness in the blood-stained body of heroic Isaac Cody as it lay on the ground,most of the mob quickly dispersed. Helping hands car-ried the unconscious man to his home. For weeks hehovered between life and death, and for weeks the familywas kept in constant terror by the frequent raids of ablood-thirsty gang, who, on hearing that he was still alive,demanded Codys life. One evening a month or so after the stabbing, whenMr. Cody had convalesced sufficiently to sit up,a party of horsemen drew rein at the door. Billyhad seen them approach, and gave the warning,Mrs. Cody hastily hid the sick man in an upperroom. Halloo, there! Open that door! came the shouts fromthe crowd. Mrs. Cody opened the window. What do you want? she exclaimed.(i6)
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TEXAS JACK—WILD BILL—BUFFALO BILL.As They Appeared in Their Younger Days. Get Ready—^Load Guns We are after that abolitionist husband of yours, an-swered one of the crowd. He is not in this house, Mrs. Cody repHed, withbrave voice. Thats a He! We know that hes here, and were boundto have him, said the spokesman, advancing with hiscrowd. Stop, or you will all be killed; this house is full ofarmed men. She withdrew from the window for a min-ute, and hurriedly instructed the herder to call aloud cer-tain names, any that he might think of, just as if thehouse was full of men to whom he was giving orders.He followed the directions to the very letter; the crowdoutside heard him, and thought that there was reallyquite a force of men in the house. While this was goingon, Mrs. Cody opened the window and said: You had better go away—the men will surely fire onyou. At this point the herder, Billy Cody, and his sisterscommenced stamping on the floor, imitating a squad ofsoldiers marching

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