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Buffalo Bill Cody

: An Autobiography

"Buffalo Bill" Cody got his nickname after the American Civil War when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody served as a soldier in the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains

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“The Indian makes a good citizen, a good farmer, a good soldier. He is a real American, and all those of us who have come to share with him the great land that was his heritage should do their share toward seeing that he is dealt with justly and fairly, and that his rights and liberties are never inf…”

— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com

Tagged: Indian, citizen, Soldier, Land, Law

“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game that was our meat. In 1868 he arranged to build through the Indians' land a road on which ran iron horses that ate wood and breathed fire and smoke. We agreed. This road was only as wide…”

— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com

Tagged: White Man, Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, Indians, Native Americans

“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country that was his by right of birth. But I have always held that in such a country as America the march of civilization was inevitable, and that sooner or later the men who lived in ro…”

— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com

Tagged: Indians, Native Americans, creator, Manifest Destiny

“In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and fair. They were the inheritors of the land that we live in. They were not capable of developing it, or of really appreciating its possibilities, but they owned it when the…”

— Buffalo Bill Cody, amazon.com

Tagged: Government, Indians, Native Americans, Warfare, White Man