8vo. Original olive cloth lettered in gilt, photographic portrait of Buffalo Bill affixed to upper cover (slight lean to spine, light rubbing to extremes, hinges tender and starting in some places). Provenance: Neil Mooney (author's inscription).

FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY CODY on front free endpaper: "With the compliments of the Author, W.F. Cody, 'Buffalo Bill', To Neil Mooney, Cody, Wyo, March 9th 1909." True Tales of the Plains gathers a series of semi-autobiographical narratives recounting Cody’s experiences on the western frontier during the decades of westward expansion and includes accounts of other notable frontier figures, among them the famed scout and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok. Adams, Six-Guns 456; Graff 788; Howes C-532.