# Samuel Johnson — The Life of Buffalo Bill character guide

> Samuel Johnson in The Life of Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Samuel, Mr. Sam Johnson

**First appearance:** 0008-vi-hard-times

## Who they are

A Mormon elder who opens his Utah home to Buffalo Bill, offering frontier hospitality amid the tensions of a strange territory.

## In the story

### [Childhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_life_of_buffalo_bill_se/chapters/i-childhood)

Brother of Buffalo Bill who dies accidentally in his twelfth year.

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