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Buffalo Bill
William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West, Cody began performing at the age of 23. He performed in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours in the United State…
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business · American soldier and showman (1846–1917) · actor · writer · stage actor · frontiersman · businessperson · circus performer · showman · military officer · also Buffalo Bill, William Frederick Cody, Bill Cody, William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Born 26 February 1846 · Died 10 January 1917 · Q202285
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: I Was the Last Person to Interview Buffalo Bill Cody Before He Died. Here’s What He Said
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2025· 4 entries
Covers: Buffalo Bill’s Resort Scaling Down, Concert Venue Will Remain Open
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Yahoo: Buffalo Bill's Resort prepares for final rodeo as casino is set to close amid Primm's struggles
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insider.si.edu: Frank Lehner photographs of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show
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IndieWire: John C. Reilly Brings the Wild American West to Italy as Buffalo Bill in Cannes Premiere ‘Heads or Tails?’ — Watch Exclusive Clip
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2022· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “The Buffalo Bills' stadium sits on the site of "an early Erie Indian village"” Graves yes, village no.
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1977· 1 entry
Congress began reviewing numerous cases; it reinstated the medals for Cody and four other civilian scouts on June 12, 1989
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1965· 1 entry
And designated a National Historic Landmark in 2021
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1958· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
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1948· 1 entry
The Cody chapter of the American Legion offered a $10,000 reward (approximately $134,000 in 2025) to anyone who could steal Cody's body and deliver it to Cody, Wyoming
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1947· 1 entry
The name inspired by the professional football team which began that year in Buffalo
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1917· 5 entries
His show was sold to Archer Banker of Salina, Kansas, for $105,000 (approximately $2,639,000 in 2025)
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Cody was buried on Lookout Mountain, in Golden, Colorado, west of Denver, on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, overlooking the Great Plains
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Died 1917-01-10.
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Along with medals of 910 other recipients dating back to the Revolutionary War, when Congress decided to create a hierarchy of medals, designating the "Medal of Honor" as the highest military honor it could bestow
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After Congress revised the standards for the award, the U
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1912· 1 entry
Titled The Life of Buffalo Bill
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1910· 1 entry
After which Frederici often traveled with her husband until he died in 1917
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1908· 1 entry
Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill joined forces and created the Two Bills show
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1906· 1 entry
Began in France on March 4 and quickly moved to Italy for two months
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1905· 2 entries
Along Cody Road with the assistance of the artist and rancher Abraham Archibald Anderson
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A year after the Shoshone Project was authorized
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1903· 2 entries
Joined with the Wyoming Board of Land Commissioners in urging the federal government to step in and help with irrigation in the valley
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Investigating engineers recommended constructing a dam on the Shoshone River in the canyon west of Cody
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1902· 1 entry
And 1903 and a tour in 1904, performing in nearly every city large enough to support it
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1901· 1 entry
Outside Lexington, North Carolina, a freight train crashed into one unit of the train carrying Buffalo Bill's show from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Danville, Virginia
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1897· 1 entry
And 1899, Cody and his associates acquired from the State of Wyoming the right to take water from the Shoshone River to irrigate about 169,000 acres (680 km2) of land in the Big Horn Basin
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1895· 1 entry
Cody was instrumental in the founding of the town of Cody, the seat of Park County, in northwestern Wyoming
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1894· 1 entry
Edison Studios invited Buffalo Bill and his show to be filmed in an early silent film, Buffalo Bill
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1893· 2 entries
Frederici showed up at his hotel room in Chicago unannounced and was led to "Mr
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Cody changed the title to Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World
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1891· 4 entries
A bust of Cody was created by Anton Friedrich Scholl for the Nebraska Hall of Fame
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The show toured cities in Belgium and the Netherlands before returning to Great Britain to close the season
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Buffalo Bill performed in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the Südstadt Quarter
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Major Arizona John Burke was the general manager for the Buffalo Bill Wild West Company; William Laugan [sic], supply agent; George C
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1889· 2 entries
And received his 32nd degree in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in 1894
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The show toured Europe, and, in 1890, Cody met Pope Leo XIII
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1887· 2 entries
Invited by the British businessman John Robinson Whitley, Cody took the show to Great Britain in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria, who attended a performance
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As part of the American Exhibition, which coincided with the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
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1886· 1 entry
Cody and Nate Salsbury, his theatrical manager, entered into partnership with Evelyn Booth (1860–1901), a big-game hunter and scion of the aristocratic Booth family
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1883· 2 entries
Taking his large company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Europe
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In the area of North Platte, Nebraska, Cody founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West, a circus-like attraction that toured annually
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1874· 1 entry
In which he performed for part of the year while scouting on the prairies the rest of the year
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1873· 1 entry
Cody invited Wild Bill Hickok to join the group in a new play called Scouts of the Plains
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1872· 4 entries
Cody was awarded the Medal of Honor for service as a civilian scout to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, for "gallantry in action" at Loupe Forke, Platte River, Nebraska
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The law requiring the revocation in 1916, and the modern statute enacted in 1918 (it remains substantially unmodified today)
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For documented gallantry above and beyond the call of duty as an Army scout in the Indian Wars
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For his actions in the Indian Wars, he was among 911 recipients to have the award rescinded in 1917
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1869· 1 entry
The 23-year-old Cody met Ned Buntline, who later published a story based on Cody's adventures (largely invented by the writer) in Street and Smith's New York Weekly and then published a highly successful novel, Buffalo B
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1867· 1 entry
With the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway completing through Hays City and Rome, Cody was granted a leave of absence to hunt buffalo to supply railroad construction workers with meat
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1866· 2 entries
Just a few days after his twentieth birthday
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Reunited with his old friend Wild Bill Hickok in Junction City, Kansas, then serving as a scout
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1860· 2 entries
Cody was caught up in the "gold fever", with news of gold at Fort Colville and the Holcomb Valley Gold Rush in California
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Wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and a hotel manager, but historians have had difficulty documenting them
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1853· 1 entry
Isaac Cody sold his land in rural Scott County, Iowa, for $2,000 (equivalent to $77,000 in 2025), and the family moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory
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1847· 1 entry
The couple moved to Ontario, having their son baptized in 1847, as William Cody, at the Dixie Union Chapel in Peel County (present-day Peel Region, of which Mississauga is a part), not far from the farm of his father's f
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1846· 1 entry
Born 1846-02-26.
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1811· 1 entry
In Toronto Township, Upper Canada, now part of Mississauga, Ontario, directly west of Toronto
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