'Colonel' Samuel F. Cody

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by alanint

You can't get much more frontier American than that if you are a showman..

On that note...I recall reading that the State of Kentucky conferred the title "Colonel" on Harland Sanders...presumably for promoting that state's poultry products...

...And that an auctioneer who hawked 1,000 auctions was honored with the title "Colonel"...

This in addition to the wealthy landowner who outfitted a regiment in Antebellum times, and for doing so was conferred with the rank of "Colonel"...

...Ain't books great???...