The Buffalo Bill Stories:
A Weekly Publication Devoted to Border Life

The Buffalo Bill Stories, published by the New York firm  Street and Smith from 1906 to 1910, capitalized on the American boys’ fascination with western adventure stories.  Many issues focused on historical incidents in the life of the Colonel William Cody, who gained fame as an army scout and buffalo hunter before becoming the star of his own Wild West Show.  Claiming greater authenticity than other dime novel westerns, some issues of The Buffalo Bill Stories contained the following publisher’s note:

Beware of Wild West imitations of the Buffalo Bill Stories.  They are about fictitious characters.  The Buffalo Bill weekly is the only weekly containing the adventures of Buffalo Bill, (Col. W.F. Cody), who is known all over the world as the king of scouts.