Bill Cody, Bob Byrd, McAuliffe, Hillary, Kerry, Buffett et al.
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ASTONISHING COLOR
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Re: Bill Croke's
Buffalo
Bill's Wild West
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p>Thanks to Bill Croke for the portrait of one of America's most
colorful characters, Wm. Frederick Cody, whose partially
Buntline-conjured story I loved as a child (there was some
authentic heroism in Cody's early years as well). I sometimes think
of Buffalo Bill's 1917 death in Denver as a sort of historical
marker: My father was born only five months later in Kansas. My
maternal grandmother lived in a North Platte, Nebraska, house
rented from the Plainsman himself; she remembered him riding
horseback into town with his long yellow mane billowing from under
his hat. (For that matter, my paternal grandmother remembered an
on-the-run Frank James staying overnight at her house in Kansas.)
Just another reminder of what an astonishing, breathtaking span the
last century was.
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--
K. E. Grubbs Jr.
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Irvine, CA
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FRISKY DEMS
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re: The Washington Prowler's
McAuliffe
Frisks Frist