Download or read book William Cody Richmond written by Nancy Richmond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "William Cody Richmond - Revolutionary War Soldier" is the historical biography of William Cody Richmond (1752-1850), which was researched and accepted into the United States Library of Congress as an accurate depiction of his life. Born in Pennsylvania in 1752. Richmond moved to Botetourt County (now Greenbrier County, West Virginia) in 1775, where he enlisted in the Continental Army. He was assigned to Lieutenant Wood's Company in the Third Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Neville. The company was first ordered to Fort Savannah, Virginia (now Lewisburg) where they spent the winter. In the spring of 1776, the soldiers marched to Point Pleasant where they helped to build Fort Randolph. William Cody Richmond served with honor and lived for more than fifty years after the birth of the United States of America. He was one of the few Revolutionary War veterans to be photographed before his death in 1850. That photo is on the cover of the book. It has been authenticated by a certified genealogist as being that of William Cody Richmond. The daguerreotype was taken at the home of Shadrack Martin in 1848 by and the photo has remained in the hands of relatives since that time. In 1982, John Haskel Richmond was interviewed by the Hinton News newspaper, and produced the original photo for the reporter. Since that time, hundreds of copies of the photo have been made and are owned by family members. The book is filled with details about Richmond's military service, and contains numerous documents and pictures that provide a glimpse into his life before, during and after the war. It also provides proof that Fort Savannah (originally Fort Union) had been built by 1774, and that the route William Richmond took when he was sent to Fort Randolph was the same one used by the soldiers traveling to Point Pleasant in 1774.
Download or read book William Cody Richmond Senior Photo Documentation written by Nancy Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides fully researched and documented proof,compiled by a certified genealogist, that the identity of the old man with two canes pictured on the cover of the book is William Cody Richmond Senior, who fought in the 3rd Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Well know investigative reporter for the Hinton News,William E. (Bill) Dressler did an interview with John Haskel Richmond in Hinton, WV in 1982. Mr. Dressler stated "I have read many books on the history of families and talked with many historians on this subject of genealogy, but I have never met anyone who is more thorough and complete in the research of their ancestors than John H. Richmond. He can back up every record in showing the descent of a family from a certain ancestor. Dressler was referring to William Cody Richmond Sr.. John Haskel Richmond produced the original daguerreotype photo of the Revolutionary War soldier, and provided proof documentation for all the information he provided to Dressler, proving conclusively that the photo taken in 1848 by the Lyons Daguerreotype Business of an old man in a hand made suit who was holding two walking canes was William Cody Richmond Sr.
Download or read book William Richmond Sr 1752 1850 written by Nancy Richmond and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Richmond Sr. was born in 1752 in Pennsylvania. In 1775 he moved to Virginia, where he enlisted in the Continental Army and became a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After the conflict, Richmond ran a ferry on the New River. He married three times and had ten children. According to William Richmond's sworn testimony (documented at his Revolutionary War Pension hearing in 1832) he served one year at Fort Savannah, one year at Fort Randolph and one month of special service. He was a soldier from 1775 until 1777. In 1848, at the age of 96, William's family had a daguerreotype picture taken of him. He was one of only a few soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War to be photographed. William Richmond Sr. died in 1850 at the age of 98. This book contains his biography as well as numerous historical records that provide evidence for many of the events in his life.
Download or read book William Caperton Richmond Civil War Soldier written by Nancy Richmond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Caperton Richmond Civil War Soldier" is the historical biography of one man's experience during and after the Civil War in West Virginia. William 'Devil Bill' Richmond was the grandson of Revolutionary War soldier William Cody Richmond. He grew up in Virginia and served as a Lieutenant in the 184 Virginia Milita. In 1850, he became a District School Commissioner. When the Civil War broke out, he served in the Union militia from December 20, 1861 until May 20, 1863. Later he joined an independent Union militia company, the State Scouts, which was organized in November of 1864. After the War, Richmond worked at the WV Legislature in Wheeling, and later served for 25 years as a Justice of the Peace. He died in 1897, at the age of 73. This is a great book for West Virginia Civil War fans, and for the Richmond family of West Virginia.
Download or read book Buffalo Bill Cody written by Robert A. Carter and published by Castle Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping biography gives us a compelling look at the flamboyant, generous man the Indians called "Long Hair" and the rest of America called the "P. T. Barnum of the American West".
Download or read book The Business of Being Buffalo Bill written by Sarah J. Blackstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1988-05-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Being Buffalo Bill provides new insight into a colorful figure in American history. William F. Cody was interested in developing the American West through irrigation, transportation, and settlement. He invested heavily in development projects such as mining, newspapers, and an entire town, Cody, Wyoming. In his correspondence, Cody discussed his various failures and successes, talked of personal problems, and spoke of his longing to end his show business career and retire to the West he loved. These candid letters present a unique view of Buffalo Bill as a man of many interests and enthusiasms. Containing previously unpublished correspondence between Cody and his business partners, relations, and friends, this volume examines Cody's business endeavors and his personal relationships.
Download or read book Buffalo Bill s America written by Louis S. Warren and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was the most famous American of his age. He claimed to have worked for the Pony Express when only a boy and to have scouted for General George Custer. But what was his real story? And how did a frontiersman become a worldwide celebrity? In this prize-winning biography, acclaimed author Louis S. Warren explains not only how Cody exaggerated his real experience as an army scout and buffalo hunter, but also how that experience inspired him to create the gigantic, traveling spectacle known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A dazzling mix of Indians, cowboys, and vaqueros, they performed on two continents for three decades, offering a surprisingly modern view of the United States and a remarkably democratic version of its history. This definitive biography reveals the genius of America’s greatest showman, and the startling history of the American West that drove him and his performers to the world stage.
Download or read book Buffalo Bill Cody written by Robert A. Carter and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2000-10-02 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Bill Cody focuses on the real person who projected the mighty figure of Buffalo Bill on American frontier mythology as a buffalo hunger, army scout, Indian fighter, Pony Express rider, and master showman.
Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild West in England written by William F. Cody and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American frontier figures: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, and himself. Cody contributed an abridged version of his 1879 autobiography with an addendum titled The Wild West in England, now available in this stand-alone annotated edition, including all the illustrations from the original text along with photographs of Cody and promotional materials. Here Cody describes his Wild West exhibition, the show that offered audiences a mythic experience of the American frontier. Focusing on the show’s first season of performances in England, Cody includes excerpts of numerous laudatory descriptions of his show from the English press as well as stories of his time spent with British nobility—from private performances for Queen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales to dinners and teas with the elite of London society. He depicts himself as an ambassador of American culture, proclaiming that he and his Wild West show prompted the British to “know more of the mighty nation beyond the Atlantic and . . . to esteem us better than at any time within the limits of modern history.”
Download or read book Buffalo Bill s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World written by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Company and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful full color litho cover, stagecoach under attack from Indians, cameo portrait of W.F. Cody.
Download or read book Buffalo Bill Cody written by Karen Bornemann Spies and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody is part of the legend of the American West. This book traces his life from his youth in Kansas, through his careers as a Pony Express rider and military scout, to his creation of the traveling Wild West show. It explores the myths that surround Buffalo Bill as a memorable figure in the development of the western United States.
Download or read book The Popular Frontier written by Frank Christianson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. With its colorful portrayal of cowboys, Indians, and the taming of the North American frontier, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West popularized a myth of American national identity and shaped European perceptions of the United States. The Popular Frontier is the first collection of essays to explore the transnational impact and mass-cultural appeal of Cody’s Wild West. As editor Frank Christianson explains in his introduction, for the first four years after Cody conceived it, the Wild West exhibition toured the United States, honing the operation into a financially solvent enterprise. When the troupe ventured to England for its first overseas booking, its success exceeded all expectations. Between 1887 and 1906 the Wild West performed in fourteen countries, traveled more than 200,000 miles, and attracted a collective audience in the tens of millions. How did Europeans respond to Cody’s vision of the American frontier? And how did European countries appropriate what they saw on display? Addressing these questions and others, the contributors to this volume consider how the Wild West functioned within social and cultural contexts far grander in scope than even the vast American West. Among the topics addressed are the pairing of William F. Cody and Theodore Roosevelt as embodiments of frontier masculinity, and the significance of the show’s most enduring persona, Annie Oakley. An informative and thought-provoking examination of the Wild West’s foreign tours, The Popular Frontier offers new insight into late-nineteenth-century gender politics and ethnicity, the development of American nationalism, and the simultaneous rise of a global mass culture.
Download or read book Meet You in Hell written by Les Standiford and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two founding fathers of American industry. One desire to dominate business at any price. “Masterful . . . Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”—USA Today “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel—and as difficult to put down.”—Miami Herald The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Praise for Meet You in Hell “To the list of the signal relationships of American history . . . we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick . . . The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.”—Wall Street Journal “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist . . . a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.”—Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.”—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
Download or read book The Life of Hon William F Cody Known as Buffalo Bill the Famous Hunter Scout and Guide written by Buffalo Bill and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody written by Bill Markley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody were considered heroes and the greatest plainsmen of their time. They were larger than life, legendary characters. They knew where to locate water, good grass for livestock, sheltered campsites, and game for hunting. They knew how to survive the blistering heat and terrific thunderstorms of summer and the subzero blizzards of winter. They could avoid Indians or act as trackers following the trails of Indians as well as desperados. They were expert marksmen and did not back down from a fight. They rushed in where others held back. Hickok, a frontier wagon and stagecoach driver, became a Union spy during the Civil War, furthering his reputation after the war as a frontier Army scout, gunfighter, and lawman. Cody, who claimed to ride for the Pony Express, served in the Union Army, and became legendary as an expert buffalo hunter and Army scout. Hickok and Cody were good friends and experienced a series of adventures together. Hickok traveled to Deadwood, Dakota Territory, during the 1876 Black Hills goldrush where he was assassinated by Jack McCall. Cody continued scouting for the Army and after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, won a one-on-one duel with a Cheyenne warrior, Yellow Hair. Cody went on to become one of the most well-known showmen in the world with his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen, the fourth book in the Legendary West series, explores the lives of these two well-known characters.
Download or read book The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill written by Don Russell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to discern the truths behind the legends built up around his career.
