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Dan ‘ Daniel Boone ’ Cody

Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52. Dan ‘ Daniel Boone ’ Cody. More than any other man, Daniel Boone was responsible for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky.

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Dan ‘ Daniel Boone ’ Cody

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  1. Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52 Dan ‘Daniel Boone’ Cody • More than any other man, Daniel Boone was responsible for the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. • His grandfather came from England to America in 1717. His father was a weaver and blacksmith, and he raised livestock in the country near Reading, Pennsylvania, where Daniel was born in 1734.

  2. Dan ‘Daniel Boone’ Cody • If Daniel Boone was destined to become a man of the wild, an explorer of unmapped spaces, his boyhood was the perfect preparation. http://www.americanwest.com/pages/boone.htm

  3. Dan ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody • Buffalo Bill the character was first a fiction created to symbolize the "wild west”. It was William F. Cody who, in his autobiography, placed Buffalo Bill in the company of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, and Davy Crockett. Just as the Wild West Show reduced a vast region with an infinite number of complex racial, cultural, economic, geographic, and ecological issues to a common archetypal myth, Cody's life as a showman reduced him to the legendary character of Buffalo Bill.

  4. Dan ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody • Nevertheless, the complexities of the west remained unsettled, and Cody's life outside the show encompassed ambitions and failures not apparent in Cody the showman. Part of this mystery derives from Cody's relentless desire to become Buffalo Bill. This same blending spilled over into Cody's personal life as his real identity became confused with the character of Buffalo Bill, who represented the quintessential American through his embodiment of frontier values and all the raw independence, freedom, and self-sufficiency included in wild west virtues. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/BuffaloBill/realbill.html

  5. Dan Cody as model for Jay Gatsby • On the day that he saved Dan Cody's yacht, he must have seen an embodiment of everything he wanted. In a strange sort of way Gatsby never believed that he was just James Gatz. He had an idea of what he wanted to be. And just as Plato believed that our material bodies are not our real selves, but only physical images of our ideal or perfect selves. Gatsby had an image of himself, to which he gave the name Gatsby.

  6. Dan Cody as model for Jay Gatsby • From the day that he met Dan Cody he decided to dedicate his life to the development of the idea of himself that existed in his head. And just as Jesus left his family to be about his heavenly Father's business, so Gatsby left his earthly parents to enter the service of his God- a "vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty"- in this case symbolised by millionaire Dan Cody. Gatsby wanted of course not only to serve Cody but to be Dan Cody- one of those remarkable self-made men to come along in America between the 1890s and the years before World War I.

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