Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley

“Buffalo Bill’s adventures and Salgari’s voyages carried me far into the world of dreams. My first loves, the purest ones, found expressions in letters to Blanca Wilson, the blacksmith’s daughter.”

                                        –P. Neruda

The Complete Letters and Poems of  1870-1917

A HOMEMADE EDUCATION
TUMBLING BACKWARD
A WOMAN CRYING
THE CHRISTENING
THE RIFLE
INTERSECTION
THE ONE AND ONLY
WILLIE
THE REINS
PLAYMATES
THE FIT
ODYSSEUS AT TOMBSTONE
UNDRESSING ANNIE
FIRE MAKING
YOUR ACTUAL FIRE

COL. W. F. CODY IN THE SADDLE
CLAIM
BUFFALO DANCE MOON
SOME GHOST DANCING
BUFFALO BILL THE CONSUMER
THE SLUG
LETTER TO “DEAR BILL, WHEN I THINK”
ACT OF LOVE
LETTER TO “DEAR ANNIE: YOU WRITE TO ME AGAIN”
BILL LOOKS ASIDE FROM ANNIE AND SAYS AN -SYLLABLE HAIKU
BILL THE GEOGRAPHER
LETTER TO “DEAR BILL, MY DEAR BILL”
BILL GIVES ANNIE A FULL BOX OF CARTRIDGES
BUFFALO BILL AND THE SILK LASSO
THE WAY TO CODY, WYOMING
ANNIE STUDIES THE RECEPTIVE
THE BUFFALO
THE LESSON
BILL TRACKS THE CAT
BILL CONFESSES THE ATTRACTION OF OPPOSITES
LETTER TO “DEAR ANNIE, IT HAPPENS LIKE THIS”
LETTER TO “DEAR BILL, MERCIFULLY YOU”
TWO MORE DIALOGUES
THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD SPIKE
LETTER TO “DEAR BILL, IT’S BEEN THREE MONTHS”
SOMETIMES
LETTER TO “DEAR ANNIE, IF I POINT”

BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST THE REALITY OF IMPERISHABLE DREAMS
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DISTANCE TRAVELLED 63,000 MILES OR NEARLY THREE TIMES AROUND THE GLOBE
THE JOURNEY
A NEW TERRITORY
LETTER TO “FRIEND LOVE BILL, YOU ASKED”
ANNIE INVITES HER SOUL
WHAT WE MADE OF IT
BILL POSES AS A GEOLOGIST AND BRAGGART
BILL AGAIN
LET IT SPEAK
LETTER TO “DEAR ANNIE, I WRITE IN REGARDS”
AN OLD MAN WITH A SWOLLEN PROSTATE
TOP GUN ANNIE
BILL SAYS
HEAD ON
INTERMEDIATE STATE
BY THE STARS

FROM OLD BILL’S WAYS

EPILOGUE

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