An unassuming, but real rough-and-tumble character, William Mathewson, shown here in later years, racked up many death-defying and heroic adventures, saved many lives, was a treaty negotiator and peacemaker between settlers and Indians and helped found Wichita, Kansas, yet remains little known. In the winter of 1860-’61, several years before William F. Cody earned his title, Mathewson hunted buffalo to feed starving settlers, and
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