Pawnee Bill: A Biography of Major Gordon W. Lillie

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Originally published in 1958, this is the biography of Major Gordon W. Lillie, known as “Pawnee Bill,” one of the last of the “hardy band of heroes in buckskin who opened up the West.”Lillie made his way into Indian Territory while working as a trapper with “Trapper Tom” McClain’s outfit, waiting tables, and working as a cowboy. He served as a teacher at the Pawnee agency and was also appointed as interpreter and secretary to Maj. Edward Bowman, U.S. Indian agent. During this time he became known as “Pawnee Bill.”“[…] he early was attracted by the free outdoor life of the great Western plains and, before he came of age, he had joined other famous characters of the time in various enterprises, including the lucrative business of shooting buffalo for their hides and trapping the varied and plentiful fur-bearing animals whose skins brought fancy prices in the Eastern markets and in London.“Widely known as a showman, a teacher and friend of the Indian and finally as a colonizer in Oklahoma and builder of his state, he toured the country and the world, first alone, then in partnership with Colonel William F. (“Buffalo Bill”) Cody, with a Wild West show that had no equal. Its wild Indians were terrifying, its horsemen were death-defying, and not the least of its attractions was Pawnee Bill, wearing long, flowing hair and buckskin, who, from horseback, plugged glass balls in mid-air with six-shooter and Winchester.”“He lived […] a life not only colorful but of material aid in the development of the West. His was a story book existence come true, and he will long remain a small boy’s hero in fact and legend.”
Copyright:
2016

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ISBN-13:
9781787203976
Publisher:
Pickle Partners Publishing
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Pickle Partners Publishing
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies
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