Buck Taylor: The Original King of the Cowboys

When Bill Cody introduced his “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” in 1883 a featured presentation was Custer’s Last Stand. The historic battle had occurred just seven years earlier. The star of the show and playing the role of Custer was a tall lanky kid from Texas named William Levi Taylor. At the time the average height of a man was five feet eight inches William Levi Taylor stood six feet four. Buck was born in Fredericksburg in 1857. He literally rode “tall in the saddle.” He was known fo