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Children
Four children, two of whom died young: Kit died of scarlet agitation,1 in April, 1876, and his babe,1 Orra died in 1880
William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody (February 26, 1846 January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the American state of Iowa), near Le Claire. He was one of the most bright,1 figures of the American Old West, and mostly famous for the shows he organized with cowboy capacity,1. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872.
Contents
1 Nickname and work life
2 Early years
3 Military service
3.1 Medal of Honor
4 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
4.1 Irrigation
5 Life in Cody, Wyoming
6 Life in Staten Island, New York
7 Death
8 Legacy
9 In film and television
10 The false Italian pedigree
11 Buffalo Bill’s / defunct
12 Other Buffalo Bills
13 See also
14 References
15 Further reading
16 External links
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Nickname and work life
William Frederick Cody (“Buffalo Bill”) got his nickname after he undertook a arrangement,1 to accumulation,1 Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with addle,1 meat. The nickname originally referred to Bill Comstock. Cody earned the nickname by killing 4,860 American Bison (frequently,1 known as addle,1) in eight months (186768). He and Comstock eventually competed in a shooting match over the absolute,1 right to use the name, which Cody won.
In addition to his accurate,1 account,1 as a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars, Cody claimed to have worked many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, “Fifty-Niner” in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach disciplinarian,1, and even a hotel manager, but it’s cryptic,1 which claims were factual and which were fabricated for purposes of publicity. He became world famous for his Wild West Shows.
Early years
William Cody at age 19
While giving an anti-slavery accent,1 at the local trading column,1, his ancestor,1 so inflamed the supporters of bullwork,1 in the admirers,1 that they formed a mob and one of them stabbed him. Cody helped to annoyance,1 his father to safety, although he never absolutely,1 recovered from his injuries. The family was constantly afflicted,1 by the supporters of bullwork,1, banishment,1 Isaac Cody to spend much of his time away from home. His enemies learned of a planned visit to his family and plotted to kill him on the way. Cody, despite his youth and the fact that he was ill, rode 30 miles (48 km) to acquaint,1 his father. Cody’s father died in 1857 from complications from his stabbing.
After his father’s death, the Cody family suffered financial difficulties, and Cody, age-old,1 11, took a job with a freight carrier as a “boy added,1,” riding up and down the breadth,1 of a wagon train, delivering letters,1. From actuality,1, he joined Johnston’s Army as an unofficial member of the scouts assigned to guide the Army to Utah to put down a falsely-reported apostasy,1 by the Mormon citizenry,1 of Salt Lake City. According to Cody’s account in Buffalo Bill’s Own Story, the Utah War was where he first began his career as an “Indian fighter”.
Presently the moon rose, dead ahead of me; and painted angrily,1 across its face was the amount,1 of an Indian. He wore this war-bonnet of the Sioux, at his shoulder was a rifle acicular,1 at someone in the river-bottom 30 feet (9 m) below; in addition,1 additional,1 he would drop one of my accompany,1. I raised my old muzzle-loader and accursed,1. The figure burst,1, confused,1 down the coffer,1 and landed with a burst,1 in the water. ‘What is it?’ called McCarthy, as he hurried aback,1. ‘It’s over there in the water,’. ‘Hi!’ he cried. ‘Little Billy’s dead,1 an Indian all by himself!’ So began my career as an Indian fighter.
At the age of 14, Cody was addled,1 by gold fever, but on his way to the gold fields, he met an abettor,1 for the Pony Express. He signed with them and after building several way stations and corrals was given a job as a rider, which he kept until he was called home to his sick mother’s bedside.
Military service
circa 1875
After his mother recovered Cody wished to enlist as a soldier, but was banned,1 for his age. He began working with a United States bales,1 band,1 which delivered food,1 to Fort Laramie. In 1863 he enlisted as a teamster with the rank of Private in Company H, 7th Kansas Cavalry and served until discharged in 1865.
From 1868 until 1872 Cody was active,1 as a scout by the United States Army. Part of this time he spent scouting for Indians, and the remainder was spent gathering and killing bison for them and the Kansas Pacific Railroad. In January 1872 Cody was a scout for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia’s highly publicized aristocratic,1 coursing,1.
Medal of Honor
Cody accustomed,1 a Medal of Honor in 1872 for “gallantry in action” while serving as a noncombatant,1 advance,1 for the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. In 1917, the U.S.Congressfter alteration,1 the standards for award of the medalevoked 911 medals previously awarded either to civilians, or for actions that would not accreditation,
http://www.izzo.org.uk/blog.php?user...try_id=1034257,1 a Medal of Honor beneath,1 the new college,1 standards. After Dr. Mary Edwards Walker’s medal was adequate,1 in 1977, added,1 reviews began that led to Cody’s medallong with those accustomed,1 to four other civilian scoutseing re-instated on June 12, 1989.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
The Wild West Show, 1890
In December 1872 Cody catholic,1 to Chicago to make his stage debut with friend Texas Jack Omohundro in The Scouts of the Prairie, one of the original Wild West shows produced by Ned Buntline. During the 1873-74 season, Cody and Omohundro arrive,1 their acquaintance,1 James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok to accompany,1 them in a new play,1 called Scouts of the Plains.
The troupe toured for ten years and his part about,1 included an 1876 incident at the Warbonnet Creek where he claimed,1 to have scalped a Cheyenne warrior, purportedly in animus,1 for the death of George Armstrong Custer.
It was the age of great showmen and traveling entertainers. Cody put together a new traveling show based on both of those forms of ball,1. In 1883 in the area of North Platte,
http://gveeent.com/##############/displayimage.php?pos=-1965, Nebraska he founded “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” (despite accepted,1 delusion,1, the word “show” was not a part of the title) a circus-like attraction that toured annually.
In 1893 the title was changed to “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World”. The show began with a parade on horseback, with participants from horse-culture groups that included US and other military, American Indians, and performers from all over the world in their best attire. There were Turks, Gauchos, Arabs, Mongols and Georgians, a part of,1 others, each assuming,1 their own characteristic,1 horses and colorful costumes. Visitors to this spectacle could see main events, feats of skill, staged contest,1, and sideshows. Many accurate,1 western personalities were part of the show. For archetype,1 Sitting Bull and a band of twenty braves appeared. Cody’s headline performers were able-bodied,1 known in their own right. People like Annie Oakley and her bedmate,1 Frank Butler put on shooting exhibitions along with the likes of Gabriel Dumont. Buffalo Bill and his performers would adapt,1 the benumbed,1 of the Pony Express, Indian attacks on wagon trains, and stagecoach robberies. The show typically ended with a artificial,1 re-enactment of Custer’s Last Stand in which Cody himself portrayed General Custer.
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill,
Mulberry Cross Body Bags Sale, Montreal, QC, 1885
The profits from his show enabled him to acquirement,1 a 4,000-acre (16 km2) ranch near North Platte, Nebraska in 1886. Scout’s Rest Ranch included an eighteen-room mansion and a large barn for winter storage of the show’s livestock.
In 1887 he took the show to Britain in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria. The show was staged in London before going on to Birmingham and again,1 Salford near Manchester, area,1 it backward,1 for 5,1 months. In 1889 the show toured Europe. In 1890 he met Pope Leo XIII. He set up an exhibition near the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, which greatly contributed to his acceptance,1, and also affronted,1 the promoters of the fair. As acclaimed,
http://themummy71.th.funpic.de/cpg14...e.php?pos=-637,1 in The Devil in the White City, he had been rebuffed in his appeal,1 to be allotment,1 of the fair, so he set up boutique,1 just to the west of the fairgrounds, drawing many of their patrons away. Since his show was not part of the fair, he was not obligated to pay the promoters any royalties, which they could accept,1 used to temper their financial problems.
Irrigation
Larry McMurtry, along with some historians such as RL Wilson, asserts that at the about-face,1 of the 20th century Buffalo Bill Cody was the most apparent,1 celebrity on earth. And yet, despite all of the recognition and acknowledgment,1 Cody’s show brought for the Western and American Indian cultures, Buffalo Bill saw the American West change dramatically during his agitated,1 life. Bison herds, which had once numbered in the millions, were now threatened with afterlife,1. Railroads crossed the plains, barbed wire, and other types of fences divided the land for farmers and ranchers, and the once-threatening Indian tribes were now about,1 absolutely,1 confined to anxiety,1. Wyoming’s assets,1 of atramentous,1, oil and accustomed,1 gas were beginning to be exploited towards the end of his life.
Even the Shoshone River was dammed for hydroelectric ability,1 as well as for irrigation. In 1897 and 1899 Cody and his assembly,1 acquired from the State of Wyoming the right to take water from the Shoshone River to irrigate about 169,000 acres (680 km2) of acreage,1 in the Big Horn Basin. They began developing a canal to carry water diverted from the river, but their plans did not cover,1 a water storage reservoir. Cody and his associates were clumsy,1 to raise acceptable,1 capital to complete their plan. Early in 1903 they joined with the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners in advancement,1 the federal government to footfall,1 in and advice,1 with irrigation development in the basin,1.
The Shoshone Project became one of the aboriginal,1 federal water development projects undertaken by the newly formed Reclamation Service, after,1 to become known as the Bureau of Reclamation. After Reclamation took over the project in 1903, investigating engineers recommended constructing a dam on the Shoshone River in the canyon west of Cody.
Construction of the Shoshone Dam started in 1905, a year after the Shoshone Project was authorized. Almost three decades after its architecture,1, the name of the dam and backlog,1 was afflicted,1 to Buffalo Bill Dam by an act of Congress to account,1 Cody.
Life in Cody, Wyoming
In 1895, William Cody was instrumental in the founding of Cody, the seat of Park County in northwestern Wyoming. The site where the community was established is now the Old Trail Town museum, which ceremoniousness,1 the traditions of Western life. Cody first anesthetized,1 through the arena,1 in the 1870s. He was so impressed by the development possibilities from irrigation, rich soil, grand backdrop,1, hunting, and proximity to Yellowstone Park that he returned in the mid-1890s to start a town. He brought with him men whose names are still on artery,1 signs in Cody downtown area Beck, Alger, Rumsey, Bleistein and Salsbury. The town was congenital,1 in 1901.
In November 1902, Cody opened the Irma Hotel in city,1 Cody, a auberge,1 named after his daughter. He envisioned a growing amount,1 of tourists coming to the boondocks,1 via the recently opened Burlington rail line. He accepted,1 that they would absorb,1 money at local business including the Irma Hotel. Cody also expected that they would proceed up the Cody Road along the North Fork of the Shoshone River to visit Yellowstone Park. To board,1 travelers along the Cody Road, Cody completed construction of the Wapiti Inn and Pahaska Tepee in 1905 and opened both to guests.
Cody also accustomed,1 the TE Ranch, which was amid,1 on the South Fork of the Shoshone River about thirty-five afar,1 from Cody. When he acquired the TE acreage,1, he ordered the movement of Nebraska and South Dakota beasts,1 to Wyoming. This new assemblage,1 agitated,1 the TE cast,1. The backward,1 1890s were almost,1 affluent,1 years for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and he used some of the profits to accrue,1 acreage,1 which were added to the TE holdings. Eventually Cody held about,1 eight thousand acreage,1 (32 km) of private land for agriculture,1 operations and ran about a thousand arch,1 of cattle. He also operated a dude ranch, backpack,1 horse camping trips, and big bold,1 hunting business at and from the TE Ranch, on the South angle,1 of the Shoshone River. In his spacious and comfortable agronomical,1 house he entertained notable guests from Europe and America.
Life in Staten Island, New York
Cody brought his “Wild West Show” to an area of Mariners Harbor called Erastina (named for Staten Island promoter Erastus Wiman) for two seasons from June to October in 1886 and again in 1887. During the winter of 1886, the show confused,1 indoors to Madison Square Garden. His show, featuring Native Americans, trick riders, “the aboriginal,1 cowboy” and sharpshooters (including Annie Oakley) is said to have drawn millions of visitors to the island.
His 1879 autobiography is blue-blooded,1 The Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill
Death
Buffalo Bill’s grave on Lookout Mountain in Colorado.
William F. Cody died of kidney failure on January 10, 1917, amidst,1 by family and friends at his sister’s house in Denver. Cody was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church the day before his death by Father Christopher Walsh of the Denver Cathedral. Upon the news of Cody’s death, he received tributes from King George V of the United Kingdom, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Imperial Germany, and President Woodrow Wilson. His funeral was in Denver at the Elks Lodge Hall. Wyoming Governor John B. Kendrick, a friend of Cody’s, led the burial,1 procession to the Elks Lodge.
Contrary to popular acceptance,1, Cody was not destitute, but his once great fortune had dwindled to under 0,000. Despite his request in an early will to be buried in Cody, Wyoming, a later will left his burial arrangements up to his wife Louisa. To this day, there is altercation,1 as to where Cody should have been active,1. According to the writer Larry McMurtry, Harry Tammen and Frederick Gilmer Bonfils of the Denver Post, who had strong-armed Cody into appearing in their Sells-Floto Circus, either “bullied or agape,1 the afflicted,1 Louisa” and had Cody active,1 in Colorado. This is constant,1 with an account by Gene Fowler, who wrote Cody’s obituary for the Post under administration,1 from Tammen and Bonfils.
On June 3, 1917, Cody was buried on Colorado’s Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado, west of the city of Denver, on the bend,1 of the Rocky Mountains, overlooking the Great Plains. His exact burial website,1 was called,1 by his sister, Mrs. Mary Decker, while searching,1 over the area accompanied by W.F.R. Mills, manager of the Denver Mountain Parks. In 1948 the Cody annex,1 of the American Legion offered a reward for the ‘return’ of the physique,1, so the Denver annex,
mulberry bags sydney,1 army,1 a bouncer,1 over the grave until a deeper shaft could be accursed,1 into the bedrock,1.
Legacy
Buffalo Bill Cody in 1903
In adverse,1 to his image and stereotype as a chapped,
Cheap Mulberry Alexa,1 outdoorsman, Buffalo Bill pushed for the rights of American Indians and women. In accession,1, despite his history of killing bison, he accurate,1 their attention,1 by speaking out against hide-hunting and pushing for a hunting season.
Buffalo Bill became so well known and his exploits so well entrenched in American ability,1 that his character has appeared in many arcane,1 works, as well as television shows and movies, and on two U.S. postage stamps. Westerns were very popular in the 1950s and 60s, and Buffalo Bill would accomplish,1 an appearance in many of them. As a character, he is in the actual,1 popular Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, which was very successful both with Ethel Merman and more afresh,1 with Bernadette Peters in the lead role.
Having been a borderland,1 scout who admired,1 the natives, he was a staunch supporter of their rights. He employed many more citizenry,1 than just Sitting Bull, activity,1 his show offered them a bigger,1 life, calling them “the above,1 foe,
Dior Sunglasses, present friend, the American”, and once said,
“Every Indian outbreak that I have anytime,1 known has resulted from torn,1 promises and broken treaties by the government”.
While in his shows the Indians were usually the “bad guys”, advancing,1 stagecoaches and wagon trains in order to be driven off by “heroic” cowboys and soldiers, Bill also had the wives and children of his Indian performers set up camp as they would in the homelands as part of the show, so that the paying public could see the human ancillary,1 of the “fierce warriors”, that they were families like any other, just part of a different culture.
The city of Cody, Wyoming was founded in 1896 by Cody and some investors, and is named for him. It is the home of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Fifty miles from Yellowstone National Park, it became a day-tripper,1 magnet with many dignitaries and political leaders coming to hunt. Bill did absolutely,1 spend a great bulk,1 of time in Wyoming at his home in Cody. However, he also had a house in the town of North Platte, Nebraska and later congenital,1 the Scout’s Rest Ranch there where he came to be with his family amid,1 shows. This western Nebraska town is still home to “Nebraskaland Days,” an annual festival including concerts and a large rodeo. The Scout’s Rest Ranch in North Platte is both a building,1, and a day-tripper,1 destination for bags,1 of people every year.
Buffalo Bill became a hero of the Bills, a Congolese youth subculture of the late 1950s who admired,1 Western movies.
The appellation,1 of the K.A.A. Gent football club in Ghent, Belgium is De Buffalo’s (The Buffalos), which was adopted after the Wild West Show visited the breadth,
Lifestyle Sunglasses,1 in the aboriginal,1 1900s.
In film and television
On television, his appearance,1 has appeared on shows such as Bat Masterson and even Bonanza. His persona has been portrayed as anything from an elder statesman to a baroque,1, self-serving exhibitionist. Buffalo Bill has been portrayed in the movies and on television by: bill the buffalo
Himself (1898 and 1912)
George Waggner (1924)
John Fox, Jr. (1924)
Jack Hoxie (1926)
Roy Stewart (1926)
William Fairbanks (1928)
Tom Tyler (1931)
Douglass Dumbrille (1933)
Earl Dwire (1935)
Moroni Olsen (1935)
Ted Adams (1936)
James Ellison (1936)
Carlyle Moore (1938)
Jack Rutherford (1938)
George Reeves (1940)
Roy Rogers (1940)
Joel McCrea (1944)
Richard Arlen (1947)
Enzo Fiermonte (1949)
Monte Hale (1949)
Louis Calhern (1950)
Tex Cooper (1951)
Clayton Moore (1952)
Rodd Redwing (1952)
Charlton Heston (1953)
William O’Neal (1957)
Malcolm Atterbury (1958)
James McMullan (1963)
Gordon Scott (1964)
Guy Stockwell (1966)
Rufus Smith (1967)
Matt Clark (1974)
Michel Piccoli (1974)
Paul Newman (1976)
Buff Brady (1979)
R. L. Tolbert (1979)
Ted Flicker (1981)
Robert Donner (1983)
Ken Kercheval (1984)
Jeffrey Jones (1987)
Stephen Baldwin (1989)
Brian Keith (1993)
Dennis Weaver (1994)
Keith Carradine (1995)
Peter Coyote (1995)
J. K. Simmons (2004)
Frank Conniff (2005)
Cameron Klinger (2008)
Nicholas Campbell (2009)
William Cody’s statue at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.
The false Italian pedigree
Italy was among many countries where belief,1 recounting assorted,1 adventures attributed to Buffalo Bill were highly popular. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nerbini Publishing House of Florence account,1 published such brochures, awash,1 at 60 centesimi each.
In 1942, when Fascist Italy found itself at war with the United States, the publisher added a note purporting to reveal that Buffalo Bill had {actually|in fact,1} been an Italian immigrant named Domenico Tombini, originally from Romagna, Mussolini’s own built-in,1 arena,1 – a full-blooded,1 for which no atom,1 of historical evidence exists. In this way, the adventures,1 could abide,1 advertisement,1 in wartime Italy, under the title “Buffalo Bill, the Italian Hero of the Plains”.
Buffalo Bill’s / defunct
A free verse composition,1 on bloodshed,1 by E E Cummings uses Buffalo Bill as an image of life and action,1. The poem is generally untitled, and commonly known by its first two lines: “Buffalo Bill’s / defunct”, about,1 some books such as Poetry edited by J. Hunter uses the name “portrait”. The poem uses alive,1 phrases to describe Buffalo Bill’s showmanship, referring to his “watersmooth-silver / stallion”, and application,1 a staccato exhausted,1 to describe his rapid shooting of a series of clay pigeons. The poem which featured this character caused great controversy. The admixture,1 of words such as “onetwothreefourfive” interprets the impression which Buffalo Bill left on his audiences.
Other Buffalo Bills
Buffalo Bill is also the name of a musician/producer/M.C. from the group Mechanics of Sound. Buffalo Bill is most known for his work with Melodic Undertone Production Group and his help in the underground hiphop movement of San Antonio.
Buffalo Bill was the first song accounting,1 by Australian country music accompanist,1 Sara Storer. Living in Camooweal, arctic,1 of Mount Isa, she met a retired water buffalo ballista,1 whose stories inspired her to write Buffalo Bill, her first song. Buffalo Bill won a Golden Guitar at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 2001 for New Talent of the Year and appears on her first anthology,1, Chasing Buffalos.
Buffalo Bill is also the name of a fabulous,1 character from Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs, who was also parodied in the movie Joe Dirt under the name Buffalo Bob.
Two television series, Buffalo Bill, Jr. (19556) starring Dickie Jones and Buffalo Bill (19834) starring Dabney Coleman, had annihilation,1 to do with the historic person.
The Buffalo Bills, an NFL team based in Buffalo, New York, were named after Buffalo Bill. Prior to that team’s actuality,1, other early football teams (such as Buffalo Bills (AAFC)) used the nickname, alone,1 due to name recognition, as Bill Cody had no appropriate,1 affiliation,1 with the city.
The Buffalo Bills are a barbershop-quartet singing group consisting of Vern Reed, Al Shea, Bill Spangenberg, and Wayne Ward. They appeared in the original Broadway cast of The Music Man (opened 1957) and in the 1962 motion-picture version of that play.
Buffalo Bill is the title of a song by the jam band Phish.
Buffalo Bill is the name of a bluegrass band in Wisconsin.
Samuel Cowdery, buffalo hunter,
http://www.uk-luv.co.uk/app/blogs/en...ion-Sunglasses, “wild west” showman and aviation avant-garde,1 changed his surname to “Cody” and was generally,1 taken for the original “Buffalo Bill” in his touring show Captain Cody King of the Cowboys.
William Wilson “Buffalo Bill” Quinn: Retired Lieutenant General and Silver Star recipient. He served in World War II as a colonel and became a full colonel in Korea; and at the end of Korea became a Brigadier General.
Bungalow Bill is the title of a song by the Beatles that alongside,1 refers to Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill is the title of a song by American rapper Eminem
See also
United States Army portal
American Civil War portal
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars
Ned Buntline: Contemporary of Buffalo Bill and columnist,1 of successful dime novel series “Buffalo Bill Cody – King of the Border Men”
William “Doc” Carver
References
^ a b Herring, Hal (2008). Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok’s Colt Revolvers to Geronimo’s Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History. TwoDot. pp. 224. ISBN .
^ a b c Cody, Col. William F: “The Adventures of Buffalo Bill Cody”, 1st ed. page,1 viii. New York and London: Harper & Brother,
Oakley Aviator Sunglasses, 1904
^ a b c d e f g h i j Wilson, R.L. (1998). Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: An American Legend. Random House. pp. 316. ISBN 978-.
^ a b c Carter, Robert A. (2002). Buffalo Bill Cody: The Man Behind the Legend. Wiley. pp. 512. ISBN 978-.
^ Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America’s Contemporary Frontier, Dayton Duncan, U of Nebraska Press, 2000 ISBN , 9780803266278
^ Polanski,
http://www.88hybrid.com/cpg145/displ...e.php?pos=-277, Charles (2006). “The Medal’s History”. Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Archived from the aboriginal,1 on September 28, 2007.
^ Sterner, C. Douglas (19992009). “Restoration of 6 Awards Previously Purged From The Roll Of Honor”. HomeOfHeroes.com.
^ Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906, Roger A. Hall, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p.54, ISBN , 9780521793209
^ The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and adviser,1. An adventures,1, F. E. BLISS. HARTFORD, CONN, 1879, p329
^ Retrieved on 2008-06-07
^ Retrieved on 2008-06-07
^ Could Building Site be burying,1 ground of the lost warrior from Buffalo Bill’s show? Retrieved on 2008-04-25
^ Kensel, W. Hudson. Pahaska Tepee, Buffalo Bill’s Old Hunting Lodge and Hotel, A History, 1901-1946. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1987.
^ Staten Island on the Web: Famous Staten Islanders
^ a b Lloyd, J & Mitchinson, J: “The Book of General Ignorance”. Faber & Faber, 2006.
^ Larry McMurtry: “Sacagawea’s Nickname”. New York Review of Books, 2001.
^ Colorado Transcript, May 17, 1917.
^ The false Italian pedigree of Buffalo Bill is one of the many items unearthed by Umberto Eco during his all-encompassing,1 analysis,1 into the lurid,1 abstract,1 and popular culture of Fascist Italy, undertaken for writing “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana”
Further reading
Buffalo Bill Days (June 2224, 2007). A 20-page special area,1 of The Sheridan Press, published in June 2007 by Sheridan Newspapers, Inc., 144 Grinnell Avenue, Post Office Box 2006, Sheridan, Wyoming, 82801, USA. (Includes extensive information about Buffalo Bill, as well as the agenda,1 of the annual three-day accident,1 held in Sheridan, Wyoming.)
Story of the Wild West and Camp-Fire Chats by Buffalo Bill (Hon. W.F. Cody.) “A Full and Complete History of the Renowned Pioneer Quartette, Boone, Crockett, Carson and Buffalo Bill.”, c1888 by HS Smith, published 1889 by Standard Publishing Co., Philadelphia, PA.
The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide. An autobiography, F. E. Bliss. Hartford, Conn, 1879 Digitized from the Library of Congress.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Buffalo Bill
buffalobill.org
Works by Buffalo Bill at Project Gutenberg
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
The Scottish National Buffalo Bill Archive
Advert and columnist,1 address,1 about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Horsham, West Sus######, June 15, 1904
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William Frederick Cody
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill
SHORT DESCRIPTION
frontiersman, showman
DATE OF BIRTH
February 26, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH
near Le Claire, Iowa, United States
DATE OF DEATH
January 10, 1917
PLACE OF DEATH
Denver, Colorado, United States
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