Stereoview showing a seated William F. Cody cradling his long range Creedmore rifle used for buffalo hunting. He is dressed in buckskins, with his jacket trimmed in buffalo fur. Although lacking a studio imprint, this view was published by E.L. Eaton, Omaha, NE, ca 1870s.

Provenance: Inked inscriptions on verso trace history of ownership of image, with a notation from Art Woodward, that Tim McCoy (the film cowboy) identified the image in 1959 as Buffalo Bill just after the Civil War; Cowan's, American History, 13 June 2014, Lot 774.

[With:] Stereoview of William F. Cody posing with three unidentified Pawnee Indians and two White men. It has been suggested that Henry Edwin "Eddie" Burgess stands to the left of Cody, and his brother, Charles Albert "C. A." Burgess stands at right, though it may also be Cody's foster son Lewis H. "Johnny" Baker. Ink stamped on verso, "Godkin, traveling photographer," ca 1870s.

The Burgess brothers were the sons of William Burgess, Indian Agent to the Pawnee in Nebraska. They were Pawnee interpreters for Buffalo Bill's Combination, and performed in the show as scouts.