Buck Taylor: King of the Cowboys

The original ‘King of the Cowboys” was literally tall in the saddle. In an age when the average cowboy was five feet eight inches William Levi Taylor stood six feet four. Taylor was a real Texas cowboy. He was born in Fredericksburg in 1857. His father was killed in the Civil War and at the age of fourteen he hired out as a cowhand eventually working his way up to Nebraska where he met Buffalo Bill Cody. Cody had created heroes out Indians, the cavalry and all the rest. The only wester