Dismal River

He owns a large and valuable farm adjoining the town of North Platte, Nebraska, and there his family live in ease and comfort.

He has also an extensive cattle ranch on the Dismal River, 65 miles north of North Platte, his partner being Major Frank North, the old commander of the celebrated Pawnee Scouts.

While many events of his career are known to the public, yet the reader will find in this narrative much that will be entirely new and intensely interesting to both young and old.

The Publisher End of Introduction Chapter 1 of The Life of Honorable William F. Cody This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

That horse I rode on and off during the summers of 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, and he was the horse that the Grand Duke Alexis rode on his buffalo hunt.

In the winter of 1872, after I had left Fort McPherson, Buckskin Joe was condemned and sold at public sale, and was bought by Dave Perry at North Platte, who in 1877 presented him to me, and I still own him.

He is now at my ranch on the Dismal River, stone blind, but I shall keep him until he dies.

The command scouted several days up the Beaver and Prairie Dog Rivers, occasionally having running fights with war parties of Indians, but did not succeed in getting them into a general battle.

He owns a large and valuable farm adjoining the town of North Platte, Nebraska, and there his family live in ease and comfort.

He has also an extensive cattle ranch on the Dismal River, 65 miles north of North Platte, his partner being Major Frank North, the old commander of the celebrated Pawnee Scouts.

While many events of his career are known to the public, yet the reader will find in this narrative much that will be entirely new and intensely interesting to both young and old.

The Publisher End of Introduction Chapter 1 of The Life of Honorable William F. Cody This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

That horse I rode on and off during the summers of 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, and he was the horse that the Grand Duke Alexis rode on his buffalo hunt.

In the winter of 1872, after I had left Fort McPherson, Buckskin Joe was condemned and sold at public sale, and was bought by Dave Perry at North Platte, who in 1877 presented him to me, and I still own him.

He is now at my ranch on the Dismal River, stone blind, but I shall keep him until he dies.

The command scouted several days up the Beaver and Prairie Dog Rivers, occasionally having running fights with war parties of Indians, but did not succeed in getting them into a general battle.