Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Buffalo Bill


Scan10314, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Col. William F. Cody

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't remember this horse or saddle in any of the photos at the Buffalo Bill Museum at North Platte,Nebraska

Harry Kingston said...

Buckles this is a great old photo of an American Legend.
It might be me but he really looks tired and wore out.
Wonder if this photo was taken when he was on Sells-Floto???
Harry

Anonymous said...

Larry i dont think they have any there or maybe in a diffrent place . i am only 30 miles from the ranch and i go often but i also have never seen any next time i go to North Platte ill ask . CleanRaul

Buckles said...

Sells-Floto in 1915, quite close to the end of the trail.

Anonymous said...

I personally think that the management of Sells-Floto should have been taken out and shot. It is my understanding that they made him live up to the contract that he would appear twice daily. To
make a man who was dying of prostate cancer and was in great pain at all times is asbsolutely unhuman!
Bob Kitto

Anonymous said...

The thing that I noticed while at the museum was the white horse most photographed, in his later years, was a roman=nosed, lunkheaded looking medium to large horse. When I inquired to the museum keeper as to why he would ride such an un-spectacular looking horse, the reply was that he was an old man at the time and wanted a white horse that would stay under him !
That kinda goes with recent comments about " what makes a GOOD horse "?

Wade G. Burck said...

LAD,
I miss the comments about "what makes a good horse." Where are they? I also suggest that a good horse doesn't necessary have to be an ugly horse.
Wade

Anonymous said...

Col. Cody's white horse was named "Columbus". He was trained and sold (to Cody) by the famed saddle horseman Tom Bass. An account of the sale is documented in the book "Tom Bass: Black Horseman".