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Kids in Colorado and Wyoming listened with only half an ear to milksops like the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet. Their elders seemed bemused too. For the Rockies were rumbling with argument again-over the late, grandiloquently great William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody...
...first time. The U.S. had produced few better-known heroes-and almost none so artificially contrived. Cody was an Indian scout and buffalo hunter in his youth, but the rest of the "Buffalo Bill" legend sprang straight from the brain of a raffish scribbler known as Ned Buntline. Astounded by Cody's good looks, wonderful lies and infinite capacity for firewater, Buntline immortalized him in a series of hair-raising dime novels...
...pressagent named "Arizona John" Burke tooled the fantastic legend until no buffalo was left unskinned, no redskin unscalped and no maiden unavenged west of the Mississippi...
Within minutes after the hero had crossed the last divide, Denver's Mayor Robert W. Speer was out to claim him. Buffalo Bill dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
Asch calls his albums "basic music" to distinguish them from popular swing or the Gene Autry-Bob Wills (TIME, Feb. 11) kind of folk music. Said he: "Ours get down to the musical roots. Very often a basic song like Buffalo Gals ["Can't you come out tonight?"] becomes a hit, but I'm not interested in individual hits. To me a catalogue of folk expression is the most important thing...