Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1917 — Buffalo Bill’s First Indian. [ARTICLE]

Buffalo Bill’s First Indian.

Col. WilUam F. Cody tells in his book, “The Adventures of Buffalo Bill,” published by the Harpers, the story of his first fight with Indians. It was in 1557, when he was only eleven years old, that he killed an Indian. He was accompanying some cattle-herders when they were attacked on the South Platte river. .The Indians stampeded the cattle, killed three men and then charged on the rest. A volley stopped tMem for the moment and the herders took refuge in the river, wading behind the bank on their way to Fort Kearney. Buffalo Bill fell behind and when he suddenly looked up at the bank above he saw an Indian’s head. He aimed and fired and the next moment was terrified to see “about six feet of dead Indian come tumbling in--4;o the river.” From that time forward, he says, “I became a hero and an Indian-killer.” •