Back in July I recommended a couple of books covering the Indian wars in North America for reading in the summer – see https://roliscon.blog/2024/07/13/summer-reading-recommendations-and-tidying-up-favorites/ . Here’s another one on a similar subject you may find interesting: The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody.
It’s an autobiography covering the younger years of the authors life. He had an interesting career as Pony Express rider, buffalo hunter and U.S. Army scout on the great plains. That included numerous Indian fights. It does not cover his later life as promoter of wild west shows but it’s a very good evocation of the time in the 1800s when the western states of the USA were settled and developed, much to the prejudice of the native Indians. Cody killed a number of them and certainly contributed to the near extinction of the buffalo on which the Indians relied but later supported the Indians in many ways.
The book is an easy read even at 365 pages.
Roger Lawson (Twitter: https://twitter.com/RogerWLawson )
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