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Buffalo Bill's Pony Patrol

1897 · Free to read

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About this issue

By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. Beadle and Adams, June 29, 1897, No. 1040. A dime novel serial featuring Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody) as Pony Express rider and secret agent. The narrative opens with an Overland coach holdup wherein masked road-agents demand a sixteen-year-old boy passenger from driver Mark Morell, who refuses despite threats. A mysterious horseman intervenes, shooting one outlaw. Buffalo Bill is then summoned by station manager Alf Slade, a former desperado turned company official, who assigns him secret guard duty: an unmarked coach carrying fifty thousand dollars in jewelry, papers, and money belonging to a San Francisco woman will pass through the district. Slade instructs Buffalo Bill to follow undetected, using his hunter's leave as cover, prepared to rescue the coach from road-agents calling themselves the "Pony Police" should they strike. The narrative emphasizes themes of frontier adventure, masculine heroism, and conflict between lawful commerce and organized banditry.

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