Buffalo: 27 books

Few people represent the spirit of the Old West like Colonel William "Buffalo Bill" Cody! From Indian fights to buffalo hunts to his now-legendary touring Wild West Show, Buffalo Bill brought the legend of the Wild West to the world. Modern readers can enjoy the exploits of this larger-than-life...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. "Buffalo Bill" got his nickname after the American Civil War, when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) was an American scout, 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 Toronto, Ontario, Canada before the family again moved to...

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody (1846-1917) was a famous American 'Indian fighter,' buffalo hunter and entertainer, known best for his 'Wild West' circus-like shows. As a young man Cody served in in the Union army during the Civil War. His 'Wild West' show toured the world between 1883-1906 and was...

Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than-life buffalo hunter. As an army scout, he earned...

Since the time of the Civil War, baseball has played an important role in Buffalo, New York. Though most of the area's baseball pioneers, including Ollie Carnegie and Luke Easter, are gone, they live on in the memories of fans, and some of their names have even graced the facades of facilities, like...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. "Buffalo Bill" got his nickname after the American Civil War, when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody...

I am about to take the back-trail through the Old West—the West that I knew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to those who, under my guidance, saw it for the first time. Now, going back over the ground, looking at it through the...

William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846 –1917) was a scout, hunter, and showman who dramatized the flavour of the American West through fiction and melodrama. His colourful Wild West show, known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, became an international institution and made him one of the world’s first global celebrities.

An all-new edition of the popular regional cookbook, The Great Entertainer features over 500 recipes in fourteen sections, from hors d'oeuvres to desserts. Three unique sections, "Camp Cooking," "Game Dishes," and "Cooking for a Crowd," focus specifically on recipes from the American West, honoring...

In the early settlement of Kansas common-school advantages were denied us, and to provide a means for educating the few boys and girls in the neighborhood of my home, a subscription school was started in a small log cabin that was built on the bank of a creek that ran near our house. My mother took...

If you want to know how any city is doing, go ask the waiters, the busboys, the bartenders, the doormen, and the strippers. The service industry has its finger on the pulse like no other. Take a weekend journey through the bowels of the strip clubs in New Orleans, from the highest to the unmentionable,...

FIRST KISS is memoir about my obsession with the hard rockin,' grease paint wearin,' fire breathin' band KISS. I discovered them right as they were beginning their careers some 40 years ago, and have remained a die hard fan since. Which is somewhat odd, given the fact that as a music writer, I am known...

The city of Kearney was founded in 1871 under the name Kearney Junction. Rev. D.N. Smith and Moses S. Sydenham were tasked with the job of choosing a townsite. In 1873, after much debate, the small railroad stop was named Kearney. Over the years, the town continued to grow; it really began to boom in...