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The Pony-Express Rider

1891 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of Beadle and Adams pulp magazine (No. 388, 1891) features Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's serialized biography "Buffalo Bill, from Boyhood to Manhood," tracing W. F. Cody's early frontier exploits. Chapter I recounts nine-year-old Billy Cody's encounter with four horse-thieves sheltering in a haunted cabin during a storm; he hides in the loft and, armed with a revolver, holds the outlaws at gunpoint until settlers arrive, killing one who attempts to draw. Chapter II depicts teenage Billy's rivalry with Hugh Hall over Nannie Vennor; Billy overhears Hall's plans to seduce and marry Nannie to access her family's inheritance, and plots to use blackmail against Hall. The text emphasizes Cody's precocious bravery and marksmanship while chronicling his emergence as a frontier hero.

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