# General Emory — The Life of Buffalo Bill character guide

> General Emory in The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Brevet Major General W. H. Emory

**First appearance:** 0023-xxi-a-military-expedition

## Snapshot

A brevet major general commanding frontier departments, one of the senior officers whose campaigns give Cody's scouting its stage and its stakes.

## Who they are

General Emory belongs to the highest tier of the frontier military, the men who direct departments and expeditions across the West. He represents the institutional power that relies on scouts like Cody for the ground-level intelligence no headquarters map can supply. His name in the narrative lends official weight to Cody's account, tying one man's adventures to the larger machinery of army campaigns against the Plains tribes.

## In the story

### [Administering Justice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_life_of_buffalo_bill_se/chapters/xxiii-administering-justice)

Appoints Cody as justice of the peace to handle civilian offenses near the post.

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