Present counties of Clare, Galway, and Mayo, whence came the family name, in a contraction of Connaught-Galway to Connelly, Conly, Cory, Coddy, Coidy, and, finally, Cod Y•All this almost makes sense....
Will Cody was always quite open about his drinking, although none of the officers he served under ever went on record to accuse him of drinking on duty. Off duty it was another matter altogether. On t...
In 1986, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Information Agency, he conducted seminars for Chinese educators in Beijing, China, in the teaching of American English. He was a key speaker at the first Fac...
Opportunity. In 1988 Bill Pattis joined Charles Z. Wick, Director of the U.S. Information Agency, and participated in the first U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Information Talks in Moscow, involving leaders f...
According to a report in the New York Times of November 16, 1999, recent research suggests that even without the white hunters, the buffalo would have become extinct. Among the factors involved in the...
Biography much easier.On a personal note, I should like to thank Stanley R. Moore, Dr. Michael Rostafinski, and John Tebbel for advice and information; my wife and first reader, Reade Johnson; and my...
Tho was Buffalo Bill Cody? Most people know, at the very least, that he was a hero of the Old West, like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and
Cherished his Nebraska
With such skill that he approached the Indian camp within fifty yards before he was noticed. The Indians fired immediately upon Mr. Cody and Sergeant Foley. Mr. Cody killed one Indian; two
A brigadier
Will told his rival that if you ever do that again, I'll hurt you. The next day Will had a third playhouse almost two-thirds constructed when Steve once again pushed it over. The fight that followed f...
If Cody's fame and popularity seem strange to us today-he was, after all, celebrated for his prowess in killing, both buffalo and Indians-it is because his virtues were nineteenth-century virtues, and...
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Some twenty-five thousand people toiled up the mountainside to pay their respects. Three thousand automobiles (which included some Sells-Floto circus wagons) also climbed the mountain that day, not wi...
His other business experiences include twenty-five years of service as Director of the Bank of Highwood in Highwood, Illinois, and twelve years as Director of the new Century Bank in Mundelein, Illino...
Dr. Michael Rostafinski, and John Tebbel for advice and information; my wife and first reader, Reade Johnson; and my editor at John Wiley, Hana Lane, for
Born there on February 22, 1841. Meanwhile, Isaac built a four-room log cabin on his claim, and there his first daughter in his marriage to Mary Ann, Julia Melvina, was born on March 28, 1843. It is a...
By 1849, when news of the discovery of gold in California reached the East, Isaac Cody was a solid citizen of his community. In 1847 he contracted with William F. Brackenridge to clear a six-hundred-a...
Cynical. As his latest biographer, I believe his life has a valuable contribution to make in this new millennium-it provides a sense of who we once were and who we might be again. He was a commanding...
Famous monarch whose three sons, Heber, Heremon, and Ir, founded the first dynasty in Ireland about the beginning of the Christian era.The Cody family, Mrs. Wetmore asserted, came down from the line o...
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