# Dave Harrington — The Life of Buffalo Bill character guide

> Dave Harrington in The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Harrington

**First appearance:** 0005-iii-boy-days-in-kansas

## Snapshot

A fellow plainsman and scout who rides alongside Cody, one of the many noted frontiersmen whose exploits are woven into the larger narrative of Western service.

## Who they are

Harrington belongs to the fraternity of scouts, trappers, and guides Cody repeatedly names as companions in his campaigns, men whose shared dangers forge a bond the memoir treats with plain affection. His presence underscores a quiet tension in Cody's account: the West is a place of individual reputation, yet no scout survives it alone. He matters because he is part of the human texture of the early-middle arc, the comrade whose shared rides and narrow escapes make Cody's adventures feel lived rather than merely told.

## In the story

### [Accidents and Escapes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_life_of_buffalo_bill_se/chapters/vii-accidents-and-escapes)

Cody's trapping partner; sets Cody's broken leg, goes for help, returns after a snowstorm, and later dies of lung fever at Cody's home.

### [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_life_of_buffalo_bill_se/chapters/endnotes)

Referenced in connection with a past trapping experience when Cody had a broken leg.

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