Buffalo Bill Gets on Track

In the year 1869, dime novel king Ned Buntline aspired to write one of his corkers about Frank North, the famed scout and Indian fighter who was known as the “white chief of the Pawnee.” The two met to talk it over. North turned down the exposure: “If you want a man to fit that bill, he’s over there sleeping under the wagon.” The snoozer was Buffalo Bill Cody. If anybody was the anti-Cody, it was North. He usually dressed in cowboy duds or business suits or military unifor