| Cody was, as later observers noted, authenticating for future stage audiences the dramatic but heretofore fictional attire of a plainsman. |
| In other words, the differences between a Yankee, a Southerner, and a plainsman were insignificant compared to the differences between a German, a Frenchman, and an Italian. |
| The small plainsman dug around in his pocket for a moment before coming up with a small sheet of parchment. |
| To the plainsman walking is the most refined form of punishment. |
| The plainsman looked searchingly into the face of the older man. |
| I'd never thought of myself as a plainsman, but those trees closed in on me, creeping ominously up from the side of the road and obscuring my view of the horizon. |
