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William and Louisa continued long after the stormy, uncomfortable scene at the farewell party in Omaha had passed. For the bulk of their marriage, Louisa fretted over the women who flung themselves at William, the expense of his various love affairs, the potential scandal, and the alienation of affection that followed.
    Not only did the many loves of Buffalo Bill Cody threaten to break up his marriage, but several of William’s friends predicted that Louisa’s intolerance of his roving eye would ultimately “bust up the Wild West.”

NOTES
Introduction
    1 . Joy Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000), 36.
    2 . William F. Cody, The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1904), 139.
    3 . Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes (Chicago: Sage Books, 1979), 99.
    4 . Cody v. Cody deposition, District County of Sheridan County, Wyoming, February–April 1904, 11.
    5 . Julia Cody Goodman and Elizabeth Leonard, Buffalo Bill: King of the Old West (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), 142.
    6 . Larry McMurtry, The Colonel and Little Missie (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 110–111; New York Times , October 30, 1898; Yost, Buffalo Bill , 99.
    7 . Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill Cody (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), 258.
    8 . William F. Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (New York: Cosmopolitan Book, 1920), 5–6.
    9 . Ibid., 15.
    10 . Ibid., 118.
    11 . Yost, Buffalo Bill , 71.
    12 . Ibid.
O NE : Man of the Family
    1 . William F. Cody, The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1904), 120; Helen Cody Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts (Chicago: Duluth Press, 1899), 58–59.
    2 . Julia Cody Goodman and Elizabeth Leonard, Buffalo Bill: King of the Old West (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), 75; Cody, The Adventures of Buffalo Bill , 122.
    3 . Helen Cody Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts (Chicago: Duluth Press Publishing, 1899), xiii.
    4 . Goodman and Leonard, Buffalo Bill , 38.
    5 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 3.
    6 . Cody, The Adventures of Buffalo Bill , 101.
    7 . William F. Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (New York: Cosmopolitan Book, 1920), 6; Goodman and Leonard, Buffalo Bill , 73.
    8 . Adolph Regli, The Real Book about Buffalo Bill (New York: Garden City Books, 1952), 30; Goodman and Leonard, Buffalo Bill , 307.
    9 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 11.
    10 . Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill , 15.
    11 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 40–43.
    12 . Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill , 29.
    13 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 47.
    14 . Ibid., 101.
    15 . Don Russell, The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1979), 17.
    16 . Buffalo Bill Historical Center McCracken Research Library, MS6, 1B, Box 1, Folder 5.
    17 . Ibid.
    18 . “Buffalo Bill Cody,” Wikipedia, www.wikipedia.com .
    19 . Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures, and Fortunes (Chicago: Sage Books, 1979), 226.
    20 . Ibid., 43.
    21 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 175.
    22 . Ibid., 123.
    23 . Goodman and Leonard, Buffalo Bill , 138.
    24 . Ibid., 139; Louisa Cody and Courtney Ryley Cooper, Memories of Buffalo Bill (New York: D. Appleton, 1919), 36.
    25 . Goodman and Leonard, Buffalo Bill , 138–139.
    26 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 132.
T WO : The Courtship of Louisa
    1 . Joy Kasson, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (New York: Hill & Wang, 2000), 18–19.
    2 . Helen Cody Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts (Chicago: Duluth Press Publishing, 1899), 122.
    3 . William F. Cody, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (New York: Cosmopolitan Book, 1920), 90–91.
    4 . “Louisa Frederici,” Arnold Historical Society, www.arnoldhistorical.org , 2–4.
    5 . Wetmore, Last of the Great Scouts , 122.
    6 . Nellie Snyder Yost, Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame,