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The boy who became Buffalo Bill : growing up Billy Cody in bleeding Kansas / Andrea Warren.

Warren, Andrea, (author.).

Summary:

Explores how the man who became the most famous entertainer of his time and a legend of the "Wild West" grew up amid a violent regional conflict that would soon tear apart the nation.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1477827188
  • ISBN: 9781477827185
  • ISBN: 9781477828717
  • ISBN: 1477828710
  • Physical Description: xiii, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Two Lions, [2015].

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A note of caution to readers -- Use of terminology in this book -- Prologue, 1894 -- Losing Sam -- On the road to Kansas -- Slavery becomes real -- Billy visits Fort Leavenworth -- Arriving in the promised land -- At home in the valley -- Isaac Cody's bloody trail -- Pro-slave or free state? -- Billy sounds the alarm -- Billy meets the abolitionists -- John Brown's war in Kansas -- Father -- Billy the hero -- Trouble with the Mormons -- Billy and the Indians -- Billy rides the Pony Express -- Bily's volunteer war -- Billy joins the red legs -- Quantrill takes revenge -- Mother -- Private Cody : scout and spy -- A soldier's life -- Becoming Buffalo Bill -- Buffalo Bill's Wild West -- The later life and legacy of the boy from Bleeding Kansas -- More about Buffalo Bill and his times.
Target Audience Note:
1070L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 7 177228.
Subject:
Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 > Childhood and youth > Juvenile literature.
Scouts (Reconnaissance) > West (U.S.) > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > Juvenile literature.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 9 of 9 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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