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  Hickok, James Butler “Wild Bill,” 18, 56, 58, 74, 81–82, 92, 100, 126, 213

  Higinbotham, Harlow, 186

  “Horse’s Tale, A” (Twain), 140

  horse thieves, 40, 51–53, 55–56, 83–84, 91–92

  Hutton, Paul Andrew, 90n

  Hyat, E. A., 112

  Indian Affairs, commissioner of, 9, 43, 93, 112

  Indians:

  bonds posted for, 43, 112–13

  in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 9–10, 23, 43–44, 80, 86, 87, 112–13, 118, 124, 139, 157–58, 160, 161, 162, 163–66, 174–77, 178, 182, 187, 204

  buffaloes hunted by, 168, 176, 178

  Cody’s friendship with, 9–10, 12, 23, 43–44, 86, 87, 166–67, 178–82, 211–13, 222

  customs of, 51, 86, 176–78

  drinking by, 176–77

  extermination of, 18, 20, 21–25, 68–69, 72–73, 119, 176–81, 212–13

  government supervision of, 9, 43, 93, 112

  myths of, 73, 165–66, 176–81

  Oakley’s friendship with, 5, 43, 136

  reservations for, 23, 176–82

  scalping and, 24–25, 26, 86

  settlers vs., 21–22, 41, 53–54, 86–87, 89, 90, 93, 119, 186, 227, 229

  treaties with, 79–80

  tribes of, 41, 69, 71–72, 178, see also specific tribes

  villages of, 67–68, 70

  warbonnets of, 83, 90, 95, 97–98, 100, 108, 139, 174

  wooden figures of, 124

  Indian War Pictures, 211–14, 221

  Indian Wars, 98

  Infirmary, 146, 147

  Ingraham, Prentiss, 6, 107–8, 140

  Interior Department, U.S., 9, 43

  Intolerance, 212

  Iraq War, 79

  Jack (Red Cloud’s son), 187

  James, Jesse, 36

  Jayhawkers, 40, 55–56, 62, 130

  Jerome, Jenny, 84

  Jordan, Michael, 136

  Joseph, Chief, 102

  Kansas, 36–37, 55–56, 70

  Kasper, Shirl, 15, 196–97, 198

  Kasson, Joy S., 33–34, 64, 118, 211, 212

  Killing of Tall Bull, The, 90

  King, Clarence, 95–96, 97, 99

  Kiowa Indians, 71, 74–75, 76

  Kublai Khan, 48

  LaFarge, John, 9

  Lancaster, Charles, 149, 168

  land agents, 114–15

  Last of the Great Scouts, The (Wetmore), 3, 74

  Leavenworth, Kans., 34, 36, 40, 57, 61–62

  Leavenworth Times, 40

  Leone, Sergio, 127

  Life of Buffalo Bill, The, 210

  Ligowsky clay pigeons, 121

  Lillie, Gordon “Pawnee Bill,” 12, 16, 30, 119, 128, 129, 153, 172, 188, 193–94, 200, 208–9, 210, 220

  Lincoln, Abraham, 28, 69–70

  Lindbergh, Charles, 20

  Little Bighorn, Battle of, 24–25, 59–60, 93, 94, 101, 186

  Little No Neck, 187

  Lonesome Dove (McMurtry), 78, 119, 120

  Lookout Mountain, 16–17

  Love, Courtney, 11

  Lowell, James Russell, 158

  Lucretia Borgia (Cody’s rifle), 87, 118

  McCandles brothers, 92

  McCarthy, Bill, 39, 41

  McCarthy, Frank, 39, 40, 41

  McCoy, Tim, 20

  Mackenzie, Ranald, 102

  McLaughlin, James, 176, 178, 179, 180, 182

  McMurtry, Charlie, 3–4

  McMurtry, Louisa Francis, 36–37

  McMurtry, Roy, 3–4

  McMurtry, William Jefferson, 36

  Madison Square Garden, 154, 193

  Madonna, 7

  Madsen, Chris, 94, 96–97, 99

  Majors and Russell, 37, 39

  Marais des Cygnes River, 56

  Marmaduke, John Sappington, 56

  Marsh, Othniel Charles, 85

  Mathewson, William, 80, 143

  May, Karl, 120

  Memories of Buffalo Bill by His Wife (L. Cody), 20, 64, 65, 133–35

  Mencken, H. L., 69

  Merritt, General, 94, 100, 137

  Messiah letters, 177

  Mexican Joe, 165

  Michael, Grand Duke of Russia, 13

  Miles, Nelson A., 55, 101, 102, 178–79, 180, 182, 190–91, 211, 212–13, 221

  Miller, Alfred Jacob, 21, 84

  Miller Brothers’ 101

  Ranch show, 3–4, 206, 209

  minstrel shows, 189

  Minutes of the Last Meeting (Fowler), 17

  Mix, Tom, 206

  Monarch (buffalo), 29–30, 206, 208

  Monroe, Marilyn, 3

  Montreal Gazette, 138–39

  Morlacchi, Giuseppina, 108–9, 117, 119, 134

  Moses, Jacob, 15, 146

  Moses, Phoebe Ann, see Oakley, Annie

  Moses, Susan, 146

  mountain men, 21–22, 59, 84

  Muller, Dan, 11–12, 63, 143, 202–3

  Navaho Indians, 41

  Nelson, John Y., 126–27, 132, 157, 187, 211

  New York Herald, 84, 97, 100

  New York Times, 198

  New York World, 124

  Nez Perce Indians, 102

  Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 160

  Noch-ay-del-klinne, 177

  North, Frank, 77, 88, 89–90, 114–15, 122, 131, 132

  North, Luther, 88, 89–90, 114

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 68

  Oakley, Annie, 143–54

  as actress, 19, 150–51, 200, 210, 218

  age of, 35, 146, 152, 171

  anemia of, 11, 14, 219

  “back kick” of, 19, 217

  biographies of, 19, 33, 64, 172

  birth of, 146

  blood poisoning of, 152

  in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 5, 12, 14, 118, 133, 152–53, 170, 171–73, 174, 193, 195–96

  in car accident, 13, 151, 218

  career of, 8, 19, 118, 130, 134, 136, 140, 143–54, 215–19

  Cody compared with, 11–13, 14, 16, 19–20

  Cody’s relationship with, 8, 10, 12, 65, 134, 170–73, 224, 228–29

  contracts of, 12, 171

  costume of, 8, 138, 144

  dancing of, 215, 216

  death of, 11, 15, 125, 135, 145, 219

  early years of, 15, 146–51, 198, 216, 217

  education of, 147

  in England, 13, 149, 158, 161, 162, 167, 168–72

  eyesight of, 148–49

  fame of, 5, 7–8, 10, 11, 13–15, 19, 119, 136, 143, 161, 171–73, 186, 190, 195–200, 215–19, 228–29

  female embalmer for, 11, 12, 145, 219

  films made by, 19, 150–51, 218

  frugality of, 143, 146, 147, 150, 154, 199, 200

  funeral of, 11, 12, 15, 16

  game hunted by, 5, 146, 148, 149

  guns used by, 5, 13, 15, 147, 149, 153, 197

  hair of, 144, 196–97

  later years of, 14–15, 215–19

  leg brace of, 13, 14, 218

  libel suit by, 197–98

  as “Little Missie,” 10, 34, 134, 140, 167

  Louisville, Ky. audition of (1885), 8, 130, 131, 146n

  mirror used by, 139

  original name of, 5, 15, 146

  in Paris, 174

  as performer, 12–14, 19, 124, 143–44, 145, 149–53, 160–61, 168–69, 174, 186, 215–19, 228–29

  personality of, 10, 12–13, 19, 143–44, 146, 196–97, 215–17

  photographs of, 8, 20–21, 136n, 144

  physical appearance of, 20–21, 144, 196–97, 224

  press coverage of, 7, 8, 14–15, 143, 146, 169–72, 195–98, 218, 224

  retirement of, 9, 14, 150, 170–73, 193, 196, 200

  rivals of, 14, 35, 140, 143–44, 146, 149, 152–53, 168–69, 173, 199

  royalty met by, 5, 19, 144, 161, 162, 183–84

  as sharpshooter, 8, 9, 11, 13–15, 19, 121–22, 124, 125, 138, 139, 140, 144, 148–50, 152–53, 160–61, 170–73, 186, 196, 198–99, 210, 215–19, 228�
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  shooting lessons given by, 148–49, 183, 184, 210, 215

  as superstar, 5, 7, 173, 190, 228–29

  in train wreck (1901), 173, 195–96

  as woman in man’s world, 5, 7–8, 10, 11, 138, 149, 161, 168, 199, 215, 216–17

  Old Glory Blow Out (1882), 116, 120

  Omohundro, Jack (Texas Jack), 18, 26, 80, 92, 102, 107, 108–9, 117, 119, 135, 213

  Onion Creek Grill, 226–27

  Orapeza, Vincente, 9

  Pastor, Tony, 150

  Patchwork, 129

  Pawnee Bill, see Lillie, Gordon “Pawnee Bill”

  Pawnee Bill’s Wild East, 193, 209

  Pawnee Indians, 71, 77, 88–89, 122–23, 208

  Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 93

  Philadelphia Phillies, 218

  Phil Sheridan and His Army (Hutton), 90n

  Pickett, Bill, 206

  Pickford, Mary, 211, 220, 225

  pigeons, 149, 150, 187, 196

  Pine Ridge reservation, 102, 121, 122, 174–77, 178, 180–81, 182, 198, 210, 212–13

  Plains Indians, 24–25, 29, 66–102, 210; see also specific tribes

  Pocahontas, 34

  Polo, Marco, 48

  Pomeroy, Brick, 138

  Pony Express, 20, 37, 43, 45, 46–53, 54, 58, 59, 153, 187, 227

  “poor children’s day,” 186–87

  posters, 8, 33–34, 77, 118, 124, 130, 192, 226–27

  Pourriere, Big Bat, 100

  Powers, John, 97, 99

  Prairie Scout, The, 26, 29

  Presley, Elvis, 3

  Pritchett, V. S., 63

  Publishers Press, 197

  railroads, 7, 20, 49–50, 68, 128, 173, 189, 190

  Rain in the Face (father), 59

  Rain in the Face (son), 59–60

  Ramona, 211

  Reconstruction, 66

  Red Cloud, 48, 67, 72, 126, 176, 187

  Red Cloud agency, 94, 100, 112, 139

  Red Cloud’s War, 72

  Red Legged Scouts, 56

  Red Shirt, 34, 43, 157, 161, 162, 163

  Red Tomahawk, 180

  Reynolds, Charley, 78

  Right Red Hand: Or Buffalo Bill’s First Scalp for Custer, The (Ingraham), 107–8

  Ringling Brothers, 119

  Rochester Opera House, 108

  rodeo, 111, 115, 116, 138, 154, 209

  Rogers, Will, 9, 14–15, 206, 219

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 5, 10, 183, 190, 217

  Rorem, Ned, 99

  Rosebud, Battle of the, 72, 77, 94

  Rosenberg, Liz, 7

  Rough Riders, 9–10, 183, 186, 190

  Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, 158

  Russell, Don, 34–35, 40, 48, 49, 64, 75, 76, 85, 100, 131, 191

  Russell, Majors, and Waddell, 37, 46, 48–49, 66, 128

  St. Louis Exposition (1904), 210

  Salsbury, Nate, 7–10, 12, 13, 29, 126–27, 129–31, 132, 135, 136, 143, 152, 153, 154, 157, 160, 170–75, 182–89, 193, 207, 220

  Salt Creek Valley, 36–37, 56, 224

  Salvation Army, 184

  Samson and Katzenberger, 147

  Sand Creek Massacre, 70, 88

  Sandoz, Mari, 114–15

  Sandoz, Old Jules, 114–15

  Sanger, George, 158, 159, 160

  Santa Fe Trail, 68

  Satanta, Chief, 76

  Scalia, Antonin, 85

  Schreyvogel, Charles, 90n

  Schurz, Carl, 112

  Scout’s Rest ranch, 11, 30, 64, 103, 110–11, 112, 114–15, 116, 201

  Sells Circus, 8, 131, 221

  September 11th attacks (2001), 93

  Seventh Cavalry, U.S., 24, 70, 93, 181

  Seventh Kansas Regiment, 55–57, 58

  Sheridan, Philip, 26, 53, 68–69, 74–75, 76, 77, 84, 85, 86, 91, 137, 226–27

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 55, 62, 67, 68–69, 70, 72, 74, 113, 129, 137

  Shoshoni Indians, 77

  Shoumatoff, Alex, 79

  Sinatra, Frank, 3

  Sioux Indians, 5, 18, 41, 48, 53–54, 59–60, 72, 79–80, 86–87, 101, 102, 126, 136, 176–82, 187, 199, 212–13

  Sitting Bull, 5, 43–44, 47, 55, 60, 67, 72, 73, 102, 113, 136, 167, 176, 178–80, 221

  Slade, Joseph “Alf,” 46–47, 49, 51, 53

  slavery, 36–37, 52

  Smith, Jedediah, 77

  Smith, Lillian, 14, 35, 144, 146, 149, 152–53, 161, 168–70, 173, 199

  South Platte River, 39–42

  Spanish-American War, 190–91

  Spence, Gerry, 27–28

  Spotted Tail, 53–54, 67, 72, 86

  Spring, Agnes Wright, 51

  Stagecoach, 228

  Standing Rock reservation, 176–77, 179

  Staten Island, 29, 136–37, 139–40, 152–53, 160, 185

  steamboats, 21, 84, 131, 132

  Stewart, Martha, 11

  Stewart, William Drummond, 84

  Stocker, Louise, 11, 219

  Stone, Fred, 218

  Story of the Wild West, The (Cody), 90

  Stout, Ernest, 197

  Summit Springs, Battle of, 44, 77, 83, 88, 90, 212

  Summit Spring’s Rescue 1869, The (Schreyvogel), 90n

  Swanson, Gloria, 14

  Tall Bull, 20, 23, 44, 77, 88–90, 108, 114, 131, 211, 212

  Tammen, Harry, 16, 17, 45, 51, 200, 211, 213, 220–21

  Taylor, Buck, 138

  telegraph, 17, 50, 131, 132, 178–79

  Terry, Alfred, 101, 102

  Tolstoy, Leo, 63

  Topperwein, Adolph, 122

  trick shots, 139, 150, 169, 183–84, 228

  Trotter, Bill, 46

  Troubadours, 129

  Turner, Frederick Jackson, 139

  Twain, Mark, 9, 137, 139, 140

  Two Bills Show, 200, 208–9, 220, 222

  Two Lances, 86

  Union Pacific Railroad, 5–6, 68

  Victoria, Queen of England, 5, 13, 34, 43, 63, 117, 153, 154, 157–70, 184, 202

  Washita, Battle of the, 24, 69, 70, 77

  Wayne, John, 228

  Weichel, Mrs. (Indian captive), 89

  West, U.S.:

  as frontier, 38, 103, 128, 138–39, 153, 227

  iconography of, 21, 33–34, 117–18, 226–27

  Indian wars in, 66–102

  mythology of, 9, 18–19, 21–22, 29–30, 38, 54, 103, 112, 115–16, 119–20, 128, 137–39, 153–54, 212–14, 222, 226–27

  “tropes” of, 20, 33–35, 43, 44–45, 47, 48–49, 58, 59, 61, 119, 211, 212, 221

  white settlement of, 21–22, 41, 48, 53–54, 68–69, 72, 79–80, 86–87, 89, 90, 93, 114–15, 119, 186, 227, 229

  Western Girl, The, 19, 150–51, 218

  Westerns, 18, 26, 29, 33

  West of the Imagination, The (Goetzmann and Goetzmann), 21

  Wetmore, Helen Cody, 3, 74, 78

  White, Mrs. James (Indian captive), 21–22, 41

  White Beaver’s Laugh Cream, 9, 207

  Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian, Prince zu, 84

  Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 5, 158, 160, 183–84, 215

  Williams, Ted, 148

  Williams, True, 41

  Wilson, Woodrow, 17, 224

  Windsor Castle, 160–61, 162, 164

  women’s suffrage, 216

  World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago) (1893), 185–88

  World War I, 206–7, 215, 217, 221

  Wounded Knee Massacre, 72–73, 167, 181–82, 184, 187, 212–13, 221

  Wovoka (Jack Wilson), 177, 178

  Yellow Hair (Wey-o-hei), 20, 23, 24–25, 33, 41, 44–45, 72, 76, 77, 83, 94–100, 101, 107–8, 134, 186, 211, 212, 221

  yellow journalism, 197–98

  Yost, Nellie Snyder, 64–65

  Young Buffalo’s Wild West, 193–94, 200, 216

  Young Man Afraid of His Horses, 187

  Photo Credits

  Photos are reproduced courtesy of the following sources:

  © Bettmann/CORBIS—8, 20.
r />   The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, Lookout Mountain, Golden, Colorado—3, 10, 11, 19.

  Culver Pictures—2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31.

  Denver Public Library, Western History Collection—X-31676: 27; Z-2380: 1; D. F. Barry, B-201: 30; B-529: 13; and B-941: 6; Joseph Masters, X-33352: 16; C. G. Morledge, X-31346: 14; Nate Salsbury Collection, NS-67: 15; NS-116: 26; and NS-236: 32.

  Garst Museum—7.