William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows »

List of Illustrations     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     xvii
Coming into the Basin     3
"Christopher Columbus" Digs a Ditch     16
A Town in the Wilderness     49
Settling the Land     68
"I wish to God I had never seen the Basin!"     93
Corporations along the Shoshone     108
The Burlington Comes to Cody     127
The Demise of the Shoshone Irrigation Company     142
Having It All     157
The Cody-Salsbury Proposition     182
"I know thee not, old man"     206
New Work for a New Century     225
Conclusion     254
List of Abbreviations     271
Notes     273
Bibliography     303
Index     311