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  12. Ibid., March 1886.

  13. The Evansville (Ind.) Press, June 11, 1927.

  SIX: Away from Home

  1. “Colonel Cody Talks,” New York Recorder, May 22, 1894.

  2. Charles Musser, Edison Motion Pictures, 1890–1900 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997), 125–145; Julia Cody and Elizabeth Leonard, Buffalo Bill: King of the Old West (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), 263.

  3. Louisa Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York: D. Appleton, 1919), 290.

  4. Nate Salsbury, American Exhibition, c. 1901, Buffalo Bill Historical Center Nate Salsbury Papers, Box 2, Folder 64.

  5. Cody v. Cody deposition, District County of Sheridan County, Wyoming, February–April 1904, 32–33.

  6. Ibid., 33.

  7. Ibid., 45.

  8. Ibid., 14–16.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Letter from William F. Cody to Al Goodman, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, August 1891.

  12. Letter from Ed Goodman to Al and Julia Goodman, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, April 1887.

  13. Cody v. Cody deposition, 30–35.

  14. Billings Gazette, December 18, 1979, 14.

  15. Ibid.; Cody v. Cody deposition, 32–33.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Ibid., 34.

  18. Cody and Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill, 269.

  19. Ibid., 299.

  20. Stella Foote, Letters from Buffalo Bill (Billings, MT: Foote Publishing, 1954), 40.

  21. Chicago Post, June 18, 1893.

  22. Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes (Chicago: Sage Books, 1979), 276.

  23. Letter from William Cody to Al and Julia Goodman, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, April 11, 1895.

  24. Helen Cody Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts (Chicago: Duluth Press Publishing, 1899), 282.

  25. Ibid., xiii.

  26. North Platte Telegraph, February 23, 1905; Billings Gazette, December 18, 1979, 14.

  27. Cody v. Cody deposition, 43.

  28. Ibid., 38.

  SEVEN: The Lady of Venice

  1. Isabelle S. Sayers, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (Toronto: General Publishing, 1981), 49–51; Dan Muller, My Life with Buffalo Bill (Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1948), 432.

  2. Muller, My Life with Buffalo Bill, 433.

  3. Joy S. Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000), 138; Covington Sun Newspaper, April 16, 1908, 1.

  4. 1870 United States Federal Census, Viola Clemmons; www.ancestory.com, Viola Katherine Clemmons.

  5. Sayers, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 49–51.

  6. Kathryn Wright, “Buffalo Bill’s Telegrams,” Billings Gazette Sunday Magazine, February 22, 1976, 1, 3.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Nebraska State Journal, April 22, 1894, 13.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Larry McMurtry, The Colonel and Little Missie (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 204; New York Press, October 30, 1898.

  13. Covington Sun Newspaper, April 16, 1908, 1.

  14. Ibid.

  15. New York Times, June 11, 1909, 16.

  16. New York Times, January 14, 1947, 27; Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill Cody (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), 433.

  EIGHT: The Cody Trials

  1. Helen Cody Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts (Chicago: Duluth Press Publishing, 1899), 266.

  2. Chris Enss, Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, 2006), 89–94.

  3. North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune, March 20, 1899.

  4. New York Times, December 25, 1902.

  5. North Platte Independent, February 26, 1903.

  6. Letter from William F. Cody to Julia Goodman, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, December 29, 1902.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Chicago Daily Tribune, February 17, 1905.

  9. Letter from William F. Cody to Julia Goodman, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, July 1903.

  10. Rocky Mountain News, July 23, 1970.

  11. Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes (Chicago: Sage Books, 1979), 320.

  12. North Platte Telegraph, January 1, 1870.

  13. Billings Gazette, December 18, 1979.

  14. Denver Post, April 22, 1904.

  15. Cripple Creek Times, February 14, 1905.

  16. Billings Gazette, December 18, 1979.

  17. Cody v. Cody deposition, District County of Sheridan County, Wyoming, February–April 1904, 50–62.

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Billings Gazette, December 18, 1979.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Denver Post, February 28, 1905.

  24. Cody v. Cody deposition, 33–34.

  25. Chicago Daily Tribune, January 8, 1954; Cody v. Cody deposition, 45.

  26. Cody v. Cody deposition, 45.

  27. Ibid., 16.

  28. Ibid., 45-52.

  29. Ibid.; North Platte Telegraph, June 1, 1905.

  30. Cody v. Cody deposition, 16.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Chicago Daily Tribune, February 17, 1905.

  33. Letter from William F. Cody to Julia Goodman, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, June 14, 1905.

  34. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 335.

  NINE: A Wandering Heart

  1. Cody v. Cody deposition, District County of Sheridan County, Wyoming, February–April 1905, 7–9.

  2. Denver Post, February 28, 1905.

  3. Frontier Times Magazine, October 1926, 4–6.

  4. Cody v. Cody deposition, 6–15.

  5. Julia Cody Goodman and Elizabeth Leonard, Buffalo Bill: King of the Old West (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), 268.

  6. Kristine Haglund, Buffalo Bill Cody Country (New York: Bison Book, 1975), 43.

  7. Cody v. Cody deposition, 6–15.

  8. Ibid., 7–9.

  9. Ibid.

  10. New York Herald, February 3, 1901; Albert Johannsen, The House of Beadle & Adams (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950), 187.

  11. Johannsen, The House of Beadle & Adams, 187.

  12. North Platte Telegraph, February 23, 1905.

  13. Don Russell, The Life of Honorable William F. Cody: Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide (New York: Bison Book, 1978), 434–436.

  14. Cody v. Cody deposition, 57.

  TEN: The Sharpshooter

  1. Isabelle Sayers, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (New York: Dover Publications, 1981), 23.

  2. Annie Oakley, The Story of My Life (Greenville, OH: Darke County Historical Society, 1926), 22.

  3. Julia Cody Goodman and Elizabeth Leonard, Buffalo Bill: King of the Old West (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), 239–240.

  4. Joy Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000), 8.

  5. Oakley, The Story of My Life, 12.

  6. Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill Cody (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), 321, 332; Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes (Chicago: Sage Books, 1979), 228.

  7. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 274.

  8. Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 136; Larry McMurtry, The Colonel and Little Missie (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 172.

  9. Sayers, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 49–50.

  10. Oakley, The Story of My Life, 26.

  11. Ibid., 18.

  12. Glenn Shirley, “Lillian Smith: Bill Cody’s California Gi
rl,” Real West Magazine, April 1973.

  13. Goodman and Leonard, Buffalo Bill, 271.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Oakley, The Story of My Life, 22.

  16. The Cody Enterprise, January 20, 1917.

  ELEVEN: The Final Ride

  1. Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes (Chicago: Sage Books, 1979), 362–364.

  2. Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill Cody (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), 435.

  3. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 430.

  4. North Platte Telegraph, February 23, 1905.

  5. Cody v. Cody deposition, District County of Sheridan County, Wyoming, February–April 1904, 38–42; Yost, Buffalo Bill, 431.

  6. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 286; Richard Walsh and Milton Salsbury, The Making of Buffalo Bill (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928), 331.

  7. Office of Surgeon General, Report, National Archives, RG94.

  8. Julia Cody Goodman and Elizabeth Leonard, Buffalo Bill: King of the Old West (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), 278.

  9. Unidentified clip file, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Posthumous Memoirs of Colonel William F. Cody, 88.

  10. North Platte Telegraph, April 14, 1910.

  11. Ibid., March 11, 1911.

  12. Unidentified clip file, BBHC, Posthumous Memoirs of Colonel William F. Cody, 88.

  13. Letter to Julia Cody Goodman from William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, McCraken Research Library, MS6, IIC, Box 1, Folder 5, October 10, 1905.

  14. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 362.

  15. San Francisco Examiner, January 11, 1917.

  16. Louisa Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York: D. Appleton, 1919), 323.

  17. Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill Cody, 469.

  18. New York Times, January 11, 1917.

  19. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 399.

  20. Cody and Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill, 324.

  21. North Platte Telegraph, September 17, 1973.

  22. Cody and Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill, 326.

  23. Yost, Buffalo Bill, 433.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Chris Enss is an author and award-winning screenwriter who has written for television, short-subject films, live performances, and the movies. Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stuntperson at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona, and she is currently working with producer Howard Kazanjian (Return of the Jedi) on the movie version of The Cowboy and the Senorita, their biography of western stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Her recent books include Thunder over the Prairie, The Doctor Wore Petticoats, The Lady Was a Gambler, and A Beautiful Mine.