The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas cover

The Boy Who Became Buffalo Bill: Growing Up Billy Cody in Bleeding Kansas

Author: Warren, Andrea

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 7.4
Points 7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 37394
Points per Word 0.000187
Page Count 241
Points per Page 0.029046

Description

To support his family after a pro-slaver killed his father, Billy, then eleven, herded cattle, worked on wagon trains, and rode the Pony Express. He then became a soldier, scout, and spy in the Civil War, all by age seventeen.