Elizabeth Jane Leonard and Julia Cody Goodman "Buffalo Bill: King Of The Old West" Limited Collector's Edition, Leather Bound [Very Fine]

A Leather Bound Collector's Edition of BUFFALO BILL

Easton Press. Norwalk, CT. 1992. Elizabeth Jane Leonard and Julia Cody Goodman "Buffalo Bill: King Of The Old West". Limited Collector's Edition. Luxuriously bound with full genuine leather with 22kt gold accents. Part of the "Heros Of The Wild West" collection. Brown leather with gold lettering and gold decorative panels front and back cover. Raised portrait of Buffalo Bill in oval with tooled gold border. Gold textblock edges with silk ribbon marker. Moire end pages. (320 pp.)

Biography of William I. Cody

Pony Express Rider. Buffalo hunter. Plains Scout and Guide. Master Showman.

Edited by James Williams Hoffman.

About "Buffalo Bill"

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in modern-day Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory.

Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872.

One of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill's legend began to spread when he was only 23. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and continental Europe.