Was Buffalo Bill was instrumental in the near extinction of the American bison (Buffalo)?
In an odd sort of way Bill Cody helped in the preservation of the bison. In 1867 Cody was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to feed the railroad construction workers building a railroad across the Great Plains. He was paid $500 a month, a big paycheck for. In eighteen months he killed 4,280 animals, a huge bo

November/December 2004
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- A True Country Brew
- Did Frank James die in the last shoot-out with the Ford that was still living?
- Who was Billy Wilson?
- Do you think Custer was seeking glory at Little Bighorn? And would he have turned down a presidential nomination if offered?
- Was Tom Horn a hired gun in the Pleasant Valley War?
- Following the Arkansas River
- Are there pictures of Zwing Hunt?
- As a girl in Kingman, Arizona, I took music lessons from Mrs. Cole, whose husband Walter told me he had been The Tombstone Epitaph editor and that he coined the phrase “Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die.”
- Did the Indians really use smoke signals or is that something out of Hollywood?