The following collection of poems is my best attempt to make sense of all I know. In an attempt, not only to save something but also to create something, I with the wicked eye shall write. In doing so, I hope to account for and explain that the shadow and light does not define, it depicts. Choose your own definition. Be your own person. The flock will change and fade. All that matters is how you perceive what is at hand in your world and how you use it. The natural world that grows and breathes is beautiful. Its counterpart that stands and stares is not. These are lines on flesh, just as the ones that bring me happiness, may the words that follow do the same for you.
The following collection of poems is my best attempt to make sense of all I know. In an attempt, not only to save something but also to create something, I with the wicked eye shall write. In doing so, I hope to account for and explain that the shadow and light does not define, it depicts. Choose your own definition. Be your own person. The flock will change and fade. All that matters is how you perceive what is at hand in your world and how you use it. The natural world that grows and breathes is beautiful. Its counterpart that stands and stares is not. These are lines on flesh, just as the ones that bring me happiness, may the words that follow do the same for you.
Lost cemeteries of Moraine State Park is a hiking companion, guiding the reader to eight forgotten cemeteries hidden withing the boundaries of Moraine State Park in Butler County, Pennsylvania."--Back cover.
Thrilling yarns of buffalo hunts, Indian life, and riding with the Pony Express abound in this exciting memoir of life in the Old West. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
The popular history of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody remains more myth than anything else, yet it’s undeniable that he was a central figure in the American Old West. Pony Express rider, stagecoach driver, trapper, soldier, bison hunter, scout, showman—his résumé reads like the quintessential record of all that makes up the Old West mythology, and it’s all documented in this, his original 1879 autobiography. While The Life of Buffalo Bill is rife with the dramatic stylings of the dime novels and stage melodramas so popular at the time, in it Cody presents his version of his life: from his boyhood settling in the newly-opened Kansas territory, to his early life as a frontiersman. It was written when Cody was only thirty-three years old, just after he started his career as a showman and a few years before he created his world famous Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Originally titled The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography, it is an arguably more accurate account of both his life and the American West than the later 1917 autobiography The Great West That Was: “Buffalo Bill’s” Life Story which was ghostwritten by James Montague and published after his death. Although it makes many claims that are disputed today, The Life of Buffalo Bill reveals much about both the historical William F. Cody and the Buffalo Bill of American legend, and gives insight into the history of the American West.
The remarkable life and adventures of Buffalo Bill, as seen through his own eyes. From his early life as a scout, trapper and Pony Express rider to his eventual fame as an iconic showman and theater producer. More entertaining and even more larger than life than most Wild West fiction, that came after it, this classic, action-filled autobiography has plenty of cowboys, saloons and shoot outs. "The Life of William F. Cody - Buffalo Bill" vividly captures the peak of a time and a place, that long since has passed into American folklore. William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) was an American scout, buffalo hunter, gold prospector, and showman. Rising to fame at only 23 years old, he was one of the most iconic figures of the American Old West in his time.
Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than-life buffalo hunter. As an army scout, he earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action. But Bill was unsatisfied. Setting his sights higher yet, he traveled the country performing in Wild West stage shows, and eventually founded “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” a terrifically successful traveling production depicting cowboy and Indian life on the plains. Bill’s show earned him large sums of money and drove him to intense national prominence at the turn of the century. This is his story in his own words.
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