Buffalo Bill Frontiersman
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Feb 26, 1846
- Died: Jan 10, 1917
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory, in Le Claire but he grew up for several years in his father's hometown in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory.
Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 14. During the American Civil War, he served from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout to the US Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872.
One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded his Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours throughout the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and Europe.
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
fatherhood
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
government
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
knowledge
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
home
The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
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