December 28th, 2009

I returned home to find a nice surprise waiting on my doorstep?advanced copies of The Many Loves of Buffalo Bill; The True Story of Life on the Wild West Show. Of all the books I’ve been privileged to work on, this one turned out the best. The cover, the typesetting, even the paper feels like a tome you would pick up at one of Cody’s Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill was the Tiger Woods of his day. Women were constantly throwing themselves at him. They knew he was married and had children, but they didn’t care. Louisa and he argued a lot over that. Of course Cody’s sisters believed he married the wrong woman to begin with. They tried to warn him that she would make his life a misery, but he didn’t listen. By the time he figured it out for himself he had children with her and didn’t want to leave because of them. I can identify with Cody’s sisters. My brother Rick married poorly too and many tried to tell him she would be his undoing. Actor Peter Sherayko, who played Texas Jack Vermillion in the movie Tombstone, wrote the foreword for The Many Loves of Buffalo Bill and I’m grateful he agreed to do so. I’m excited about this title and anxious to get it out to the press contacts and make arrangements for signings and such. It’s not been a great decade. I’m hoping Cody will help make the beginning of the next one a little better. Look for excerpts from the book on the website beginning January 1st and look for The Many Loves of Buffalo Bill in bookstores everywhere. You can also order copies through this website. Happy reading.