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American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)

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"Bill Cody" redirects here. Go for other uses, see Bill Showman (disambiguation).

Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Value in 1911
Born	William Frederick Cody (1846-02-26)February 26, 1846 Le Claire, Iowa Territory, U.S.
Died	January 10, 1917(1917-01-10) (aged 70) Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Resting place	Lookout Mountain, Colorado 39°43′57″N105°14′17″W / 39.73250°N 105.23806°W / 39.73250; -105.23806 (Grave of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody)
Other names	Buffalo Bill Cody Pahaska (Long hair)[1]
Occupation(s)	Army investigate, Pony Express rider, ranch adopt, wagon train driver, town developer, railroad contractor, bison hunter, hide trapper, gold prospector, showman
Known for	Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows
Spouse
Children	4
Service / branch	United States Army
Years of service	1863–1865, 1868–1872
Rank	Private 2 (Chief of Scouts)
Unit	7th Kansas Soldiery Regiment (Company H)
Battles / wars	American Civil War, Indian Wars (16 battles total)
Awards	Medal of Honor

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American champion, bison hunter, and showman.

One of the most famous flourishing well-known figures of the English Old West, Cody started rulership legend at the young extension of 23. Shortly thereafter explicit started performing in shows dump displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Amerindian Wars. He founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, winning his large company on about in the United States slab, beginning in 1887, in Accumulation.

He was born in Midpoint Claire, Iowa Territory (now honesty U.S. state of Iowa), on the contrary he lived for several life in his father's hometown smudge modern-day Mississauga, Ontario, before dignity family returned to the Midwest and settled in the River Territory. Buffalo Bill started running at the age of 11, after his father's death, roost became a rider for rectitude Pony Express at age 15.

During the American Civil Conflict, he served the Union circumvent 1863 to the end order the war in 1865. Consequent he served as a neutral scout for the U.S. Bevy during the Indian Wars. In the long run b for a long time he was initially awarded ethics Medal of Honor in 1872 for his actions in description Indian Wars, he was mid 910 recipients to have distinction award rescinded in 1917.

Consultation reinstated the medals for Showman and four other civilian scouts in 1989.

Early life folk tale education

Cody was born on Feb 26, 1846, on a farmhouse just outside Le Claire, Iowa.^[2] His father, Isaac Cody, was born on September 5, 1811, in Toronto Township, Upper Canada, now part of Mississauga, Lake, directly west of Toronto.

Column Ann Bonsell Laycock, Bill's encircle, was born about 1817 fulfil Trenton, New Jersey. She pretended to Cincinnati to teach academy, and there she met other married Isaac. She was straight descendant of Josiah Bunting, out Quaker who had settled pound Pennsylvania. There is no demonstrate to indicate Buffalo Bill was raised as a Quaker.^{[3][page needed]} Get round 1847 the couple moved assent to Ontario, having their son labelled in 1847, as William Impresario, at the Dixie Union Service in Peel County (present-day Pare Region, of which Mississauga psychiatry a part), not far pass up the farm of his father's family.

The chapel was create with Cody money, and grandeur land was donated by Prince Cody of Toronto Township.^[4] They lived in Ontario for not too years.

In 1853, Isaac Showman sold his land in agrestic Scott County, Iowa, for $2,000 (equivalent to $73,248 in 2023)^[5], and the family moved curb Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory.^[2] Burst the years before the Urbane War, Kansas was overtaken bypass political and physical conflict turning over the slavery question.

Isaac Impresario was against slavery. He was invited to speak at Rively's store, a local trading pale where pro-slavery men often booked meetings. His antislavery speech thus angered the crowd that they threatened to kill him assuming he did not step power failure. A man jumped up splendid stabbed him twice with well-organized Bowie knife.

Rively, the store's owner, rushed Cody to goal treatment, but he never lucky recovered from his injuries.

In Kansas, the family was oftentimes persecuted by pro-slavery supporters. Cody's father spent time away raid home for his safety. Wreath enemies learned of a formed visit to his family tolerate plotted to kill him hold on the way.

Bill, despite potentate youth and being ill attractive the time, rode thirty miles (48 km) to warn his priest. Isaac Cody went to City, Ohio, to organize a vocation of thirty families to deliver back to Kansas, to total to the antislavery population. Mid his return trip, he cut off a respiratory infection which, compounded by the lingering effects regard his stabbing and complications steer clear of kidney disease, led to empress death in April 1857.^[6][7]

After coronet death, the family suffered financially.

At age 11, Bill sham for the freight carrier Russel, Major, and Waddel as simple "boy extra". On horseback, put your feet up would ride up and track down the length of a drag train and deliver messages mid the drivers and workmen. Succeeding, he joined Johnston's Army on account of an unofficial member of class scouts assigned to guide depiction United States Army to Utah, to put down a rumored rebellion by the Mormon people of Salt Lake City.^[7]

According consent Cody's account in Buffalo Bill's Own Story, the Utah Armed conflict was where he began wreath career as an "Indian fighter":

Presently the moon rose, departed ahead of me; and varnished boldly across its face was the figure of an Amerindic.

He wore this war-bonnet refreshing the Sioux, at his edge was a rifle pointed think someone in the river-bottom 30 feet [9 meters] below; in other second he would drop attack of my friends. I marvellous my old muzzle-loader and laid-off. The figure collapsed, tumbled stiffen the bank and landed pick out a splash in the drinkingwater.

"What is it?" called Politician, as he hurried back. "It's over there in the water." "Hi!" he cried. "Little Billy's killed an Indian all uncongenial himself!" So began my pursuit as an Indian fighter.^[8]

At birth age of 14, in 1860, Cody was caught up bundle the "gold fever", with info of gold at Fort Colville and the Holcomb Valley Wealth apple of one`s e Rush in California.^[9] On her highness way to the goldfields, despite that, he met an agent cooperation the Pony Express.

He sign with them, and after construction several stations and corrals, Promoter was given a job in the same way a rider. He worked have an effect on this until he was christened home to his sick mother's bedside.^[10]

Cody claimed to have challenging many jobs, including trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, Pony Broadcast rider in 1860, wagonmaster, horsedrawn carriage driver, and a hotel overseer, but historians have had make documenting them.

He may have to one`s name fabricated some for publicity.^[11] Ie, it is argued that ancestry contrast to Cody's claims, of course never rode for the Virago Express, but as a young days adolescent, he did work for warmth parent company, the transport unchangeable of Russell, Majors, and Waddell.

In contrast to the harum-scarum rides, hundreds of miles make do, that he recounted in honourableness press, his real job was to carry messages on ridge from the firm's office encircle Leavenworth to the telegraph position three miles away.^[12]

Military services

After diadem mother recovered, Cody wanted ascend enlist as a soldier carry the Union Army during honesty American Civil War but was refused because of his lush age.

He began working be equal with a freight caravan that relaxed supplies to Fort Laramie exterior present-day Wyoming. In 1863, be persistent age 17, he enlisted sort a teamster with the collaborate of private in Company Whirl, 7th Kansas Cavalry, and served until discharged in 1865.^[7][10]

In 1866, he reunited with his repress friend Wild Bill Hickok esteem Junction City, Kansas, then ration as a scout.

Cody enlisted as a scout himself story Fort Ellsworth and scouted amidst there and Fort Fletcher (later renamed and moved to Realignment Hays). He was attached bring in a scout, variously, to Pilot George Augustus Armes (Battle push the Saline River) and Representative Colonel George Armstrong Custer (guide and impromptu horse race appoint Fort Larned).

It was past this service at Fort Ellsworth that he met William Wine, with whom he would lifter the short-lived settlement of Rome.^[13]

In 1867, with the construction have the Kansas Pacific Railway accomplishment through Hays City and Leaders, Cody was granted a get rid of of absence to hunt discombobulate to supply railroad construction employees with meat.

This endeavor prolonged into 1868, which saw potentate hunting contest with William Comstock.^[14]

Cody returned to Army service assimilate 1868.^[15] From his post guess Fort Larned, he performed fact list exceptional feat of riding brand a lone dispatch courier escaping Fort Larned to Fort Zarah (escaping brief capture), Fort Zarah to Fort Hays, Fort Lawyer to Fort Dodge, Fort Plan to Fort Larned, and, at the last moment, Fort Larned to Fort Town, a total of 350 miles in 58 hours through acrid territory, covering the last 35 miles on foot.

In clarify, General Philip Sheridan assigned him Chief of Scouts for honourableness 5th Cavalry Regiment.^[16]

He was besides Chief of Scouts for birth Third Cavalry in later campaigns of the Plains Wars.

In January 1872, Cody was keen scout for the highly heralded hunting expedition of the Imposing Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.^[17]

Medal of Honor

Cody was awarded excellence Medal of Honor in 1872 for documented gallantry above tell beyond the call of burden as an Army scout uphold the Indian Wars.^[18] It was revoked in 1917, along liking medals of 910 other recipients dating back to the Insurgent War, when Congress decided appendix create a hierarchy of medals, designating the "Medal of Honor" as the highest military contribute to it could bestow.

Subsequent custom authorized the War Department tell off revoke prior Medal of Laurels awards it considered not sitting requirements since the introduction hook strict regulations promulgated under character 1917 law. Those regulations mandatory the medal to be awarded for acts of bravery overthrow and beyond the call remind duty by officers or enlisted soldiers.

The law was enacted days before Buffalo Bill athletic, so he never knew well-organized law might rescind the medallion awarded to him.

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All civilian scout medals were rescinded since they frank not appear to meet rank basic criterion of being personnel or enlisted soldiers, which abstruse been expressly listed in all authorizing statute ever enacted expend the Medal of Honor. Showman was one of five scouts affected. Their medals were exposed shortly after Cody died play a role 1917.

Cody's relatives objected, weather, for over 72 years, they wrote repeatedly to the Carry out Congress seeking reconsideration. All efforts failed, until a 1988 communication to the Senate from Cody's grandson received by the class of senator Alan K. Dr. of Wyoming, when a fresh assigned legislative assistant (K.

Yale) took up the cause cut down 1989. The legal brief prohibited drafted and submitted to primacy Department of Defense on interest of the relatives of Tangle up Bill argued that civilian scouts were technically officers, as their native American counterparts were nominally scouts. However, they were land-dwelling the rank and pay influence officers – both for retention purposes.

Too, scouts were the equivalent avail yourself of "reconnaissance" for the military courier thus provided highly valued repair. In addition, a practical lucid was to avoid mistaking them for opponents in skirmishes. Besides, although civilian scouts might enjoy normally been officers because accept their highly valued skills, depiction military drawdown and related bulldoze cuts after the Civil Bloodshed left no billets available give a hand the civilian scouts to wonderful, and thus they were relegated to a highly qualified position that treated them as influential military assets without the label or retirement benefits of staff.

Nevertheless, they were treated gorilla high-ranking military officials and challenging status of officers alongside their native American brethren. The petite argued for retroactive restoration exercise the Medal of Honor come near Buffalo Bill, and the Offshoot of Defense required the bring in to be adjudicated by blue blood the gentry Army Board for Correction nigh on Military Records.

After months good deal deliberation, the Board agreed do better than the persuasive legal brief mount made the decision to say the Medal of Honor, moan only to Buffalo Bill nevertheless also several other civilian scouts whose medals had also antediluvian rescinded.

Long after the honor was restored, the decision was thought to be controversial demand several reasons.

Some people understood Simpson's submission as arguing roam the law had never requisite Cody to be a combatant.

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However, this was never a key element medium Simpson's brief. According to these interpretations, Simpson's submission cited unornamented book, Above and Beyond, almost illustrate the lack of demand to be a soldier. Notwithstanding, it was recognized in leadership legal brief that Medal ingratiate yourself Honor recipients had to affront an officer or enlisted fighting man.

Another problem cited by good was the authority of excellence Board to contravene several yankee statutes because the Medal supplementary Honor revocation had been categorically authorized by Congress, meaning avoid the restoration went against significance law in force in 1872, the law requiring the rescission in 1916, and the up to date statute enacted in 1918 mosey remains substantially unmodified today.

Nevertheless, the legal brief clearly plainspoken not suggest overturning of goodness law, but rather conforming interpretation status of civilian scouts address that of other scouts by the same token situated (source: copy of nobility actual legal brief, by influence author).

Since the Board neat as a new pin Correction is merely a allegation of the Secretary of rectitude Army's authority, some suggest pure separation of powers conflict, in that even the president cannot fall foul of a clear statute and, even supposing Cody's case was dealt siphon off below the cabinet level, righteousness legal brief was written slope conformance with the statutes.

Virgin Medal of Honor cases originating from the board, such by reason of the recent case of Garlin Conner, required both executive confirmation as well as a lawful waiver from Congress, which underscores the point that some cases might be in conflict break statutes.

In the Cody string, the board's governing assistant gentleman recognized that it lacked picture authority to reinstate the laurel directly, and so decided resolve return the case to primacy board for reconsideration.

As a- result, the board amended Cody's record to make him protest enlisted soldier – aligning it with magnanimity legal argument that civilian scouts were the equivalent to organization or enlisted soldiers – so that subside would fall within the statutory requirements and did the identical for four other civilian guides who had also had their medals rescinded.

In doing for this reason, the board overlooked the act that Cody was a neutral guide with far greater task flexibility than a soldier, counting the ability to resign contempt will.^[19] Nevertheless the Board sincere recognize the value that reduction scouts provided, whether Native Dweller or otherwise, and how they volunteered to put themselves identical harm's way (in the suitcase of Buffalo Bill, saving dignity lives of several soldiers through rushing onto an active field of battle and pulling them to defence while under fire) instead provision pursuing less demanding civilian jobs.

Nickname

Cody received the nickname "Buffalo Bill" after the American Cultivated War, when he had organized contract to supply Kansas Peaceful Railroad workers with buffalo (American bison) meat.^[20] Cody is supposed to have killed 4,282 entangle in eighteen months in 1867 and 1868.^[10] Cody and substitute hunter, Bill Comstock, competed be glad about an eight-hour^[15] buffalo-shooting match scared the exclusive right to give rise to the name, which Cody won by killing 68 animals abut Comstock's 48.^[21] Comstock, part Algonquin and a noted hunter, make a reconnaissance, and interpreter, used a fast-shooting Henry repeating rifle, while Impresario competed with a larger-caliber Metropolis Model 1866, which he dubbed Lucretia Borgia, after the embarrassing Italian noblewoman, the subject show signs of a popular contemporary Gaetano Composer opera Lucrezia Borgia, based snare Victor Hugo's play of integrity same name.

Cody explained stray while his formidable opponent, Reformist, chased after his buffalo, taking from the rear of rectitude herd and leaving a succession of killed buffalo "scattered throng a distance of three miles", Cody – likening his strategy to topping billiards player "nursing" his billiard balls during "a big run" – first rode his horse to goodness front of the herd uphold target the leaders, forcing picture followers to one side, long run causing them to circle bracket create an easy target, esoteric dropping them close together.^[3]: 94

Birth confiscate the legend

In 1869, the 23-year-old Cody met Ned Buntline, who later published a story homespun on Cody's adventures (largely concocted by the writer) in Row and Smith's New York Weekly and then published a much successful novel, Buffalo Bill, Movement of the Bordermen, which was first serialized on the false front page of the Chicago Tribune, beginning that December 15.^[22] Indefinite other sequels followed by Buntline, Prentiss Ingraham and others shun the 1870s through the specifically part of the twenty gain victory century.^[23]

Playwright Frederick G.

Maeder cut out for Buntline's novel into the drum play Buffalo Bill which premiered at Niblo's Garden in 1872 with J. B. Studley encompass the title role. Cody criminal this play while visiting In mint condition York which gave him prestige idea to portray himself theory the stage.^[24] He later became world-famous for Buffalo Bill's Feral West, a touring show which traveled around the United States, Great Britain, and Continental Accumulation.

Audiences were enthusiastic about astonish a piece of the Earth West.^[25]Emilio Salgari, a noted Romance writer of adventure stories, trip over Buffalo Bill when he came to Italy and saw top show; Salgari later featured Impresario as a hero in dismal of his novels.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West

In December 1872, Impresario traveled to Chicago to concoct his stage debut with enthrone friend Texas Jack Omohundro bring to fruition The Scouts of the Prairie, one of the original Strong West shows produced by Heavy Buntline.^[26] The effort was panned by critics – one critic compared Cody's acting to a "diffident schoolboy" – but the performer was a reduce the price of with the sold-out crowds.^[22]

In 1873, Cody invited "Wild Bill" Hickok to join the group contact a new play called Scouts of the Plains.

Hickok frank not enjoy acting and many times hid behind scenery; in call show, he shot at nobleness spotlight when it focused testimonial him. He was therefore unattached from the group after straight few months.^[27] Cody founded nobleness Buffalo Bill Combination in 1874, in which he performed use part of the year determine scouting on the prairies leadership rest of the year.^[22] Rank troupe toured for ten grow older.

Cody's part typically included copperplate reenactment of an 1876 business at Warbonnet Creek, where elegance claimed to have scalped smashing Cheyenne warrior.^[28]

In 1883, in justness area of North Platte, Nebraska, Cody founded Buffalo Bill's Unbroken West, a circus-like attraction put off toured annually.^[11] (Contrary to honourableness popular misconception, the word Show was not a part imitation the title.)^[25][29] In 1886, Promoter and Nate Salsbury, his actor manager, entered into partnership business partner Evelyn Booth (1860–1901), a big-game hunter and scion of honourableness aristocraticBooth family.^[30] It was survey this time Buffalo Bill's Incompetent Band was organized.

The unit was directed by William Sweeney, a cornet player who served as leader of the Cowherd Band from 1883 until 1913. Sweeney handled all of loftiness musical arrangements and wrote uncluttered majority of the music bring to an end by the Cowboy Band.^[31]

In 1893, Cody changed the title cling on to Buffalo Bill's Wild West put up with Congress of Rough Riders curst the World.

The show began with a parade on hogback, with participants from horse-culture assemblages that included the US at an earlier time another military, cowboys, American Indians, and performers from all crown the world in their suited attire.^[11]Turks, gauchos, Arabs, Mongols tell Georgians displayed their distinctive bloodline and colorful costumes.

Visitors would see main events, feats indicate skill, staged races, and sideshows. Many historical western figures participated in the show. For contingency, Sitting Bull appeared with organized band of 20 of monarch soldiers.

Cody's headline performers were well-known in their own to one side. Annie Oakley and her hubby, Frank Butler, were sharpshooters, unintelligent with the likes of Archangel Dumont and Lillian Smith.

Eject re-enacted the riding of interpretation Pony Express, Indian attacks cost wagon trains, and stagecoach robberies. The show was said combat end with a re-enactment clean and tidy Custer's Last Stand, in which Cody portrayed General Custer, nevertheless this is more legend stun fact. The finale was normally a portrayal of an Amerindic attack on a settler's cottage.

Cody would ride in lay into an entourage of cowboys pact defend a settler and fulfil family. This finale was featured predominantly as early as 1886 but was not performed funds 1907; it was used subordinate 23 of 33 tours.^[32] Other celebrity appearing on the slice was Calamity Jane, as calligraphic storyteller as of 1893.

Honourableness show influenced many 20th-century portrayals of the West in medium and literature.^[25]

With his profits, Promoter purchased a 4,000-acre (16-km²) throw near North Platte, Nebraska, hurt 1886. The Scout's Rest Coat included an eighteen-room mansion discipline a large barn for wintertime storage of the show's sheep.

In 1887, invited by excellence British businessman John Robinson Whitley, Cody took the show up Great Britain in celebration do in advance the Jubilee year of Empress Victoria, who attended a performance.^[11][33] It played in London see then in Birmingham and Salford, near Manchester, where it stayed for five months.

In 1889, the show toured Europe, instruct, in 1890, Cody met Saint Leo XIII. On March 8, 1890, a competition took back home. Buffalo Bill had met cruel Italian butteri (a less-well-known strain of Italian equivalent of cowboys) and said his men were more skilled at roping calves and performing other similar ball games.

A group of Buffalo Bill's men challenged nine butteri, snappy by Augusto Imperiali [it], at Prati di Castello neighbourhood in Setto. The butteri easily won depiction competition. Augusto Imperiali became unornamented local hero after the event: a street and a cairn were dedicated to him unimportant his hometown, Cisterna di Latina, and he was featured considerably the hero in a followers of comic strips in prestige 1920s and 1930s.

Cody madden up an independent exhibition nigh on the Chicago World's Fair possess 1893, which greatly contributed locate his popularity in the Pooled States.^[11] It vexed the promoters of the fair, who challenging rejected his request to participate.^{[34][citation needed]}

In 1894, Edison Studios acceptable Buffalo Bill and his county show to be filmed in above all early silent film, Buffalo Bill.

On October 29, 1901, case Lexington, North Carolina, a conveyance train crashed into one detachment of the train carrying Throw Bill's show from Charlotte, Northward Carolina, to Danville, Virginia. Greatness freight train's engineer had tending that the entire show chauffeur had passed, not realizing kosher was three units, and correlative to the tracks; 110 banal, including his mounts Old Pomace and Old Eagle, were join in the crash or difficult to be killed later.^[35] Match up young Native Americans were join in the train accident mount many others injured.^[36] Annie Oakley's injuries were so severe drift she was told she would never walk again.

She frank recover and continued performing subsequent. The incident put the demonstrate out of business for nifty while, and this disruption possibly will have led to its furthest demise.^[37]

In 1908, Pawnee Bill topmost Buffalo Bill joined forces additional created the Two Bills divulge. That show was foreclosed serve up when it was playing welloff Denver, Colorado.

The Buffalo Worth and Pawnee Bill Film Lying on, based in New York Entitlement, produced a three-reel motion be grateful for in 1912 titled The Philosophy of Buffalo Bill. Cody yourself appears in scenes that bookend the short film, a additional room of adventures presented in flashback as Buffalo Bill's dreams.

Prestige film had two other board before it was successfully fit by John B. O'Brien. Grandeur film is in the amassment of the Library of Congress.^[38][39]

Buffalo Bill's Wild West tours disregard Europe

Buffalo Bill's Wild West toured Europe eight times, the eminent four tours between 1887 arena 1892, and the last three from 1902 to 1906.^{[40]: xviii}

The Wild West first went to Writer in 1887 as part help the American Exhibition,^[41] which coincided with the Golden Jubilee be in opposition to Queen Victoria.

The Prince methodical Wales, later King Edward VII, insist on a private preview of rectitude Wild West performance; he was impressed enough to arrange clean up command performance for Queen Port. The Queen enjoyed the be next to and meeting the performers, abound with the stage for another captain performance on June 20, 1887, for her Jubilee guests.

Sovereignty from all over Europe loaded with, including the future Kaiser Wilhelm II and the future King George V.^{[3]: 330–331} These royal encounters provided Buffalo Bill's Wild West an ratification and publicity that ensured wellfitting success.

Also, at this delay, Buffalo Bill was presented criticism written accolades from several invite America's high ranking generals with William T. Sherman, Philip Gyrate. Sheridan and William H. Emory testifying to his service, pluck 1, and character. Among the presentations was a document signed emergency GovernorJohn M. Thayer of Nebraska appointing Cody as aide-de-camp anarchy the Governor's staff with leadership rank of colonel dated Go by shanks`s pony 8, 1887.

The rank difficult to understand little official authority but loftiness English press quickly capitalized mess the new title of "Colonel Cody".^[3]: 326Buffalo Bill's Wild West blocked its successful London run disintegrate October 1887 after more more willingly than 300 performances, with more prior to 2.5 million tickets sold.^[42]: 129 Honourableness tour made stops in City and Manchester before returning hitch the United States in Haw 1888 for a short summertime tour.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West returned to Europe in May well 1889 as part of goodness Exposition Universelle in Paris, ending event that commemorated the Hundredth anniversary of the Storming longed-for the Bastille and featured ethics debut of the Eiffel Tower.^[43] On this tour, his figure was painted by Europe's principal female painter Rosa Bonheur.

Honourableness tour moved to the Southeast of France and Barcelona, Espana, then on to Italy. Behaviour in Rome, a Wild Westside delegation was received by Bishop of rome Leo XIII.^[42]: 157 Buffalo Bill was critical that the condition of justness Colosseum did not allow douse to be a venue; nevertheless, at Verona, the Wild West did perform in the antique Roman amphitheater.^[3]: 352 The tour ended with stops in Austria-Hungary swallow Germany.

In 1891 the communicate toured cities in Belgium instruction the Netherlands before returning get on the right side of Great Britain to close greatness season. Cody depended on assorted staffs to manage arrangements present touring with the large pointer complex show: in 1891 Greater Arizona John Burke was dignity general manager for the Abash Bill Wild West Company; William Laugan [sic], supply agent; Martyr C.

Crager, Sioux interpreter, alleged leader of relations with representation Indians; and John Shangren, elegant native interpreter.^[45] In 1891, Bemuse Bill performed in Karlsruhe, Frg, in the Südstadt Quarter. Primacy inhabitants of Südstadt are nicknamed Indianer (German for "American Indians") to this day, and birth most accepted theory says desert this is due to Disconcert Bill's show.^{[citation needed]} In Oct Cody brought the show watch over Dennistoun, Glasgow, where it ran from November 16 until Feb 27, 1892, in the Assess End Exhibition Building, and Martyr C.

Crager sold The Apparition Shirt to the Kelvingrove Museum.^[46]

The show's 1892 tour was narrow to Great Britain; it featured another command performance for Queen dowager Victoria. The tour finished get used to a six-month run in Author before leaving Europe for basically a decade.^[40]: xxi

Buffalo Bill's Wild West returned to Europe in Dec 1902 with a fourteen-week scamper in London, capped by wonderful visit from King Edward Cardinal and the future King Martyr V.

The Wild West tour throughout Great Britain in clean tour in 1902 and 1903 and a tour in 1904, performing in nearly every nation large enough to support it.^[3]: 439 The 1905 tour began worry April with a two-month bump in Paris, after which nobleness show traveled around France, accomplishment mostly one-night stands, concluding interject December.

The final tour, meet 1906, began in France go to work March 4 and quickly emotional to Italy for two months. The show then traveled acclimate, performing in Austro-Hungarian territories eliminate Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and Croatia-Slavonia, before returning westbound to tour in Galicia (now part of Poland), then Deutschland, and Belgium.^[47]: 189

The show was highly successful in Europe, making Promoter an international celebrity and conclusion American icon.^[48]: 88Mark Twain commented, "It is often said on dignity other side of the h2o that none of the exhibitions which we send to England are purely and distinctly Denizen.

If you will take significance Wild West show over on every side you can remove that reproach."^[3]: 321 The Wild West brought come to an end exotic foreign world to growth for its European audiences, notwithstanding a last glimpse at decency fading American frontier.

Several people of the Wild West event died of accidents or constitution during these tours in Europe:

• Surrounded by the Enemy (1865–1887), of the Oglala Lakota bandeau, died of a lung scratch mark. His remains were buried incensed Brompton Cemetery in London.^[49] Untiring Penny, the one-year-old son blond Little Chief and Good Habit, had died four months before and was buried in decency same cemetery.
• Paul Eagle Star (1864–1891), of the Brulé Lakota pin, died in Sheffield, of lockjaw and complications from injuries caused when his horse fell fastened him, breaking his leg.

  Of course was buried in Brompton Cemetery.^[45] His remains were exhumed grasp March 1999 and transported save for the Rosebud Indian Reservation, worry South Dakota, by his grandchildren Moses and Lucy Eagle Lead II. The remains were reburied in the Lakota cemetery load Rosebud two months later.

• Long Shark casanova (1833–1892), of the Oglala Lakota band, died of pneumonia professor was buried in Brompton Necropolis.

  His remains were exhumed obscure transported to South Dakota's Conifer Ridge Indian Reservation in Sep 1997 by his descendants, inclusive of his great-grandson, John Black Feather.^[50] The remains were reburied affluence Saint Ann's Cemetery, in Denby.

• White Star Ghost Dog (1890–1892), firm the Oglala Lakota band, boring after a horse-riding accident ray was buried in Brompton Graveyard.

  Her remains were exhumed careful transported to the Pine Line Indian Reservation, in South Sioux, in September 1997, with those of Long Wolf, and were reburied at Saint Ann's Necropolis, in Denby.

Life in Cody, Wyoming

In 1895, Cody was instrumental bank the founding of the region of Cody, the seat identical Park County, in northwestern Wyoming.

Today the Old Trail Quarter museum is at the affections of the community and commemorates the traditions of Western struggle. Cody first passed through probity region in the 1870s. Operate was so impressed by character development possibilities from irrigation, comfortable soil, grand scenery, hunting, contemporary proximity to Yellowstone Park renounce he returned in the mid-1890s to start a town.

Streets in the town were christened after his associates: Beck, Writer, Rumsey, Bleistein, and Salsbury. Birth town was incorporated in 1901.

In November 1902, Cody unsealed the Irma Hotel, named afterwards his daughter. He envisioned out growing number of tourists anticipate to Cody on the new opened Burlington rail line. Unwind expected that they would operate up Cody Road, along magnanimity north fork of the Shoshonian River, to visit Yellowstone Afterglow.

To accommodate travelers, Cody in readiness the construction of the Cervid Inn and Pahaska Tepee attach 1905 along Cody Road^[51] interchange the assistance of the master and rancher Abraham Archibald Contralto.

Cody established the TE Branch, located on the south forking of the Shoshone River recall thirty-five miles from Cody.

In the way that he acquired the TE possessions, he stocked it with pigs sent from Nebraska and Southward Dakota. The new herd tyrannize the TE brand. The cluster 1890s were relatively prosperous life for the Wild West county show, and he bought more disorder to add to the make known. He eventually held about helpfulness thousand acres (12+1⁄2 square miles; 32 square kilometers) of confidential land for grazing operations viewpoint ran about a thousand mind of cattle.

He operated trim dude ranch, pack-horse camping trips, and big-game hunting business force and from the TE Area. In his spacious ranch nurse, he entertained notable guests getaway Europe and America.

Cody supported the local newspaper, The Impresario Enterprise, in 1899 with Canyon. John Peake.^[52]

Cody published his memories, The Life and Adventures scope Buffalo Bill, in 1879.^[53] In the opposite direction autobiography, The Great West Saunter Was: "Buffalo Bill's" Life Story, was serialized in Hearst's Supranational Magazine from August 1916 appeal July 1917.^[3] and ghostwritten from one side to the ot James J.

Montague.^[54] It cold several errors, in part considering it was completed after Cody's death in January 1917.^[3] Experience was accompanied by illustrations harsh N. C. Wyeth.^[55]

Irrigation

Larry McMurtry, in advance with historians such as Notice. L. Wilson, asserted that on tap the turn of the Ordinal century, Cody was the crest recognizable celebrity on Earth.^[25] From way back Cody's show brought an intelligence for the Western and Inhabitant Indian cultures, he saw representation American West change dramatically meanwhile his life.

Bison herds, which had once numbered in birth millions, were threatened with death. Railroads crossed the plains, burred wire, and other types lady fences divided the land energy farmers and ranchers, and character once-threatening Indian tribes were small to reservations. Wyoming's coal, unbalance and natural gas were recur to be exploited toward loftiness end of his life.^[25]

The Shoshonean River was dammed for hydroelectric power and irrigation.

In 1897 and 1899, Cody and jurisdiction associates acquired from the Present of Wyoming the right choose take water from the Shoshonian River to irrigate about 169,000 acres (680 km²) of land sketch the Big Horn Basin. They began developing a canal tell apart carry water diverted from nobility river, but their plans blunt not include a water repositing reservoir.

Cody and his fellowship were unable to raise summary capital to complete their dispose. Early in 1903, they united with the Wyoming Board rejoice Land Commissioners in urging righteousness federal government to step directive and help with irrigation tag on the valley.

The Shoshone Design became one of the rule federal water development projects undertaken by the newly formed Restoration Service, later known as goodness Bureau of Reclamation.

After Exchange took over the project entertain 1903, investigating engineers recommended construction a dam on the Shoshonian River in the canyon westside of Cody. Construction of goodness Shoshone Dam started in 1905, a year after the Shoshoni Project was authorized. When no-win situation was completed in 1910, break away was the tallest dam amusement the world.

Almost three decades after its construction, the nickname of the dam and holder was changed to Buffalo Invoice Dam by an act end Congress.^[56]

Marriage and children

Cody married Louisa Frederici on March 6, 1866, just a few days sustenance his twentieth birthday.^[48]: 139 The span met when Cody had voyage to St.

Louis under coronet command during the Civil Warfare. Cody's autobiography barely mentioned probity courtship to Frederici but professed, "I now adored her heavens any other young lady Unrestrainable had ever seen."^[48] Cody elective in letters and his reminiscences annals that Frederici had pestered him into marriage, but he was aware that it was "very smart to be engaged."^[48] That rhetoric became pushed more squeeze more in his explanations give reasons for marriage as the relationship in the middle of him and his wife began to decline.

Frederici stayed domicile with their children. Two rule their children died young decide the family was living crush Rochester, New York. These join and a third child were buried in Mount Hope Boneyard, in Rochester.^[57] While his little woman and children remained in Ad northerly Platte, Bill stayed outside goodness home, hunting, scouting, and structure up his acting career be sold for the Wild West show.^[48] Likewise Cody began to travel other frequently and to places out of range from home, problems over unfaithfulness, real or imagined, began penalty arise.

These concerns grew positive great that in 1893, Frederici showed up at his motor hotel room in Chicago unannounced add-on was led to "Mr. keep from Mrs. Cody's suite."^[48] Cody mentions in his autobiography that pacify was "embarrassed by the gathering of beautiful ladies" who bordered him both in the band and the audiences, and that trend continued as he became involved with more and additional actresses who were not scared to show their attraction persuade him in front of highrise audience.^[6][48]

Cody filed for divorce imprisoned 1904, after 38 years interrupt marriage.^[48] His decision was strenuous after years of jealous rationale, bad blood between his helpmate and his sisters, and abrasion between the children and their father.

By 1891, Cody abstruse instructed his brother-in-law to elevation Frederici's affairs and property, locution "I often feel sorry insinuate her. She is a concealed woman but I don't conjure up her – remember she is my wife – and let it go at give it some thought. If she gets cranky, crabby laugh at it, she can't help it."^[58] Cody hoped differ keep the divorce quiet, earn not disrupt his show stage his stage persona, but Frederici had other ideas.

Filing confirm divorce was scandalous in goodness early 20th century when committed unions were seen as acceptable for life. This furthered Cody's determination to get Frederici divulge agree to a "quiet lawful separation," to avoid "war enjoin publicity."^[48] The court records person in charge depositions that were kept succumb the court case threatened arrangement ruin Cody's respectability and believability.

His private life had been open to the become public before, and the application ask divorce brought unwanted attention give up the matter. Not only exact townspeople feel the need assemble take sides in the separate, but headlines rang out climb on information about Cody's alleged infidelities or Frederici's excesses.^[48]

Cody's two vital allegations against his wife were that she attempted to poisonous him on multiple occasions (this allegation was later proved false) and that she made keep in North Platte "unbearable remarkable intolerable" for Cody and diadem guests.^[59] The press picked concerning on the story immediately, creating a battle between Cody extort Frederici's teams of lawyers, both of which seemed to remedy the better authority on Nebraska divorce law.^[59] Divorce laws miscellaneous from state to state hem in the early 1900s.

Desertion was the main grounds for split-up, but in some jurisdictions, specified as Kansas, divorce could nurture granted if a spouse was "intolerable."^[60][61] The Victorian ideal pageant marriage did not allow supportive of divorce in any case, on the contrary the move westward forced spruce change in the expectations precision husbands and wives and rectitude ability to remain married.^[61] Secure Lewis and Clark County, Montana, 1867 records show that about were more divorces in stray year than marriages.^[62] Part pay the bill the appeal of the marches was that "a man cannot keep his wife here."^[62]

After Cody's announcement that he was suing for divorce, Frederici began fulfil fight back.

She claimed go wool-gathering she had never attempted take in hand poison him and that she wished to remain married.^[63] Interpretation trial then moved to regard in February 1905.^[63] One appeal to the witnesses who spoke up a newspaper was Mrs. Bog Boyer, a housekeeper in nobleness Cody home who was one to a man who hollow for the Wild West unveil.

She claimed that Frederici interest inhospitably towards Cody's guests jaunt that, when Cody was not quite at the ranch, she would "feed the men too unwarranted and talk violently about Impresario and his alleged sweethearts ... suffer that she was seen manner something into his coffee."^[63] Bug witnesses mentioned Cody's comment mosey to handle his wife recognized had to "get drunk spell stay drunk."^[63] The battle middle court continued, with testimony shun three witnesses, Mary Hoover, Martyr Hoover, and M. E.

Vroman.^[64] Subsequently the witnesses had testified, Impresario changed his mind about character divorce.

Cody's change of indication was not due to mean improvement in his relationship go-slow Frederici but rather was permission to the death of their daughter, Arta Louise, in 1904 from "organic trouble."^[59] With that weighing heavily on him, Impresario sent a telegram to Frederici hoping to put aside "personal differences" for the funeral.

Frederici was furious and refused vulgar temporary reconciliation.^[59] Cody decided extremity continue pursuing the divorce, objects to his complaint that Frederici would not sign mortgages abstruse that she had subjected him to "extreme cruelty" in countercharge him for the death after everything else Arta.

When the trial proceeded a year later, in 1905, both their tempers were unrelenting hot. The final ruling was that "incompatibility was not goal for divorce," so that excellence couple was to stay with authorization married.^[59] The judge and picture public sided with Frederici, righteousness judge deciding that her husband's alleged affairs and his sisters' meddling in his marriage difficult to understand caused his unhappiness, not authority wife.

Cody returned to Town to continue with the Wild West show and attempted surpass maintain a hospitable, but cool, relationship with his wife.^[59] Honesty two reconciled in 1910, tail end which Frederici often traveled take on her husband until he boring in 1917.^[59]

Bill's daughter, Irma Showman, died in Cody in 1918.^{[citation needed]} She is buried unexpected result Riverside Cemetery in Cody, Wyoming.

Death

Cody died on January 10, 1917. He was baptized check the Catholic Church the time before his death by Papa Christopher Walsh of the Sanctuary Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.^{[3]: 469 [65][47]: 193} He received a full Brother funeral.^[66] Upon the news advice Cody's death, tributes were finished by King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and President Woodrow Wilson.^[67] Government funeral service was held dear the Elks Lodge Hall breach Denver.

The governor of Wyoming, John B. Kendrick, a reviewer of Cody, led the interment procession to the cemetery.

At the time of his fatality, Cody's once-great fortune had dwindled to less than $100,000 (approximately $2,378,000 in 2023). He not done his burial arrangements with culminate wife. She said that unwind had always said he sought to be buried on Hunt Mountain, which was corroborated uncongenial their daughter Irma, Cody's sisters, and family friends.

But conquer family members joined the masses of Cody in saying think it over he should be buried birdcage the town he founded.

On June 3, 1917, Cody was buried on Lookout Mountain, attach Golden, Colorado, west of Denver, on the edge of blue blood the gentry Rocky Mountains, overlooking the Good Plains. His burial site was selected by his sister Mother Decker.^[68] In 1948, the Showman chapter of the American Many offered a $10,000 reward (approximately $127,000 in 2023) to a person who could steal Cody's thing and deliver it to Showman, Wyoming.

In response, the Denver chapter of the American Many mounted a guard over justness grave.^[67] There are still rumors about the true burial in of Buffalo Bill Cody. Allowing Lookout Mountain has a gravesite behind a fence and fall concrete, there are claims desert Cody, Wyoming, was the receiver of a body swap swindle out before he was covered in Colorado and that yes was instead laid to build up your strength on top of Cedar Mountaintop in Cody.^[69]

On June 9, 1917, his show was sold correspond with Archer Banker of Salina, River, for $105,000 (approximately $2,497,000 stop in full flow 2023).^[70]

Philosophy

As a frontier scout, Promoter respected Native Americans and slim their civil rights.

He working many Native Americans, as take action thought his show offered them good pay with a change to improve their lives. Subside described them as "the stool pigeon foe, present friend, the American" and once said, speaking worm your way in later events than the another frontier raids, that "every Asian outbreak that I have bright known has resulted from in poor health promises and broken treaties prep between the government."^[25]

Cody supported the successive of women.^[25] He said, "What we want to do not bad give women, even more, liberation than they have.

Let them do any kind of rip off they see fit, and theorize they do it as adequately as men, give them probity same pay."^[71] Women such in the same way Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane had legendary roles in sovereignty show, and later in sure Cody continued to hire ground treat women fairly.^[72] Cody vocal in an interview in 1898, "Set that down in not to be faulted big black type that Throw Bill favors woman suffrage… These fellows who prate about authority women taking their places be me laugh… If a lady can do the same gratuitous that a man can break up and do it just little well, she should have grandeur same pay."^[73]

In his shows, glory Indians were usually depicted assaultive stagecoaches and wagon trains folk tale were driven off by cowboys and soldiers.

Many family personnel traveled with the men; Impresario encouraged the wives and line of his Native American squint, as part of the famous, to set up camp unprejudiced as they would in their homelands. He wanted the stipendiary public to see the individual side of the "fierce warriors".^[25]

Cody was known as a reformer who spoke out against hide-hunting and advocated the establishment concede a hunting season.^[25]

Cody as smashing Freemason

Cody was active in rank concordant bodies of the amicable organization of Freemasonry having back number initiated in Platte Valley Shelter No.

32, in North River, Nebraska, on March 5, 1870. He received his second near third degrees on April 2, 1870, and January 10, 1871, respectively. He became a Horse Templar in 1889 and customary his 32nd degree in nobleness Scottish Rite of Freemasonry attach 1894.^[66][74]

Legacy and honors

• In 1872, Showman was awarded the Medal hillock Honor for service as unblended civilian scout to the Tertiary Cavalry Regiment, for "gallantry speedy action" at Loupe Forke, River River, Nebraska.

  In 1917, rear 1 Congress revised the standards fail to distinguish the award, the U.S. Armed force removed from the rolls Octavo medals previously awarded to civilians or for actions that would not warrant a Medal commemorate Honor under the new improved standards. Cody's medal was between those revoked. In 1977, Hearing began reviewing numerous cases; set great store by reinstated the medals for Showman and four other civilian scouts on June 12, 1989.^[75][76]

• In 1891, a bust of Cody was created by Anton Friedrich Scholl for the Nebraska Hall assault Fame.
• Cody was inducted into interpretation Nebraska Hall of Fame disintegrate 1967.
• The Buffalo Bill Cody Awesome Byway through the Shoshone Public Forest is a National Wood Scenic Byway and Wyoming Theatrical Byway named after Buffalo Bill.
• Because of his funding and determination with The Shoshone Project Position Buffalo Bill Dam, The Disorder Bill Reservoir^[77] created by probity dam, and the Buffalo Tab State Park^[78] at the tank accumulation are all named after him.
• The Buffalo Bill Ranch State Reserve, also known as the Scout's Rest Ranch in North River, Nebraska was designated as expert Nebraska State Historical Park paddock 1965, and designated a Not public Historic Landmark in 2021.^[79]
• Cody was honored by two U.S.

  deportment stamps.^[25] One was a fifteen-cent Great Americans series stamp.

• The Screw up Bill Center of the Westmost was founded in Cody, Wyoming. The town is named move his honor.

• Buffalo Bill's Wild Western and the Progressive Image attain American Indians is a collective project of the Buffalo Reward Historical Center and the earth department of the University past it Nebraska–Lincoln, with assistance from rectitude Center for Digital Research select by ballot the Humanities at the Campus of Nebraska in Lincoln.

  That digital history project contains copy, official programs, newspaper reports, posters, and photographs. The project highlights the social and cultural augmentation that shaped how American Indians were defined, debated, contested, ground controlled in this period. That project was based on decency Papers of William F. Promoter project of the Buffalo Expenditure Historical Center.^[80][81]

• The National Museum designate American History's Photographic History Give confidence at the Smithsonian Institution corner and displays Gertrude Käsebier's photographs of the Wild West unveil.

  Michelle Delaney has published Buffalo Bill's Wild West Warriors: Photographs by Gertrude Käsebier.^[82]

• Some Oglala Lakota people carry on family event business traditions from ancestors who were Carlisle Indian School alumni and worked for Buffalo Reward and other Wild West shows.^[83] Several national projects celebrate Uninhabited Westers and Wild Westing.

  Uncultivated Westers still perform in flicks, powwows, pageants, and rodeos.

• The Bemuse Bills, a National Football Corresponding person team based in Buffalo, Additional York, were named after depiction entertainer. Other early football teams (such as the Buffalo Circulation of the All-America Football Conference) used the nickname, solely funding name recognition, as Cody abstruse no special connection with say publicly city of Buffalo.

  He exact however live for a meagre years in nearby Rochester. Span of Buffalo Bill's children conniving buried at Mount Hope Necropolis in Rochester, New York.^[84]

• Euro Funfair Railroad locomotive #1 is labelled the W. F. Cody set up his honor.
• In 1958, he was inducted into the Hall medium Great Westerners of the Local Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.^[85]
• Bubble O' Bill, an ice put down in the shape of a-ok cowboy currently sold in Continent and previously available in nobility United States and United Field, is named as such fend for Cody's stage name.^[86]
• Movies about Impresario inspired a youth subculture worry the Belgian Congo in depiction 1950s, with young men skull women dressing like him come first forming neighborhood gangs.

  After African independence, some of the "Bills" went on to careers injure the music industry.^[87]

Music

In 2011, President, the Creator released his in the second place studio album Goblin and probity original cover shows a teenaged Buffalo Bill with his radio show covered by the album name depicted on his nose.

Statues

• "The Scout" 1924, by Gertrude Altruist Whitney, in Cody, Wyoming
• "Buffalo Expenditure – Plainsman" 1976, by Dock Scriver, in Cody, Wyoming^[88]
• "The Compassion of Cody" 1999 by Jeffery B. Rudolph in Cody, Wyoming
• "Born Under a Wandering Star" coarse Vic Payne in Cody, Wyoming^[89]
• "Howdy Folks" 2000, by Jeffery Rudolph in Golden, Colorado^[90]
• "Buffalo Bill Monument" 2004 by Charlie Norton call in Oakley, Kansas^[91]
• "Buffalo Bill " jaws the National Cowboy & Colour Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City^[92]
• "Buffalo Bill Statue" 2006 at Dennistoun in Glasgow^[44][46]
• "America" 1876 by Ablutions Bell (sculptor), a section unconscious the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, London features a colour figure that bears a team to Buffalo Bill standing uproot to an American Bison.^[93]

Representation domestic animals popular culture

Buffalo Bill has antique portrayed in many literary, dulcet, and theatrical works, movies, attend to television shows, especially during righteousness 1950s and 1960s, when Westerns were most popular.

Some examples are listed below.

Film

• 1926: With Buffalo Bill on the U. P. Trail, starring Roy Actor as Buffalo Bill
• 1931: Battling implements Buffalo Bill, starring Tom President as Buffalo Bill
• 1935: The Admiration Rider, starring Tex Cooper variety Buffalo Bill
• 1935: Annie Oakley, director Moroni Olsen as Buffalo Bill
• 1936: The Plainsman, starring James Author as Buffalo Bill.
• 1940: Young Entangle Bill, starring Roy Rogers slightly Buffalo Bill
• 1944: Buffalo Bill, prima ballerina Joel McCrea as Buffalo Bill
• 1950: Cody of the Pony Express, starring Dickie Moore as Ball up Bill
• 1950: Annie Get Your Gun, starring Louis Calhern as Metropolis Bill^[94]
• 1952: Buffalo Bill in Arm Territory, starring Clayton Moore on account of Buffalo Bill
• 1953: Pony Express, manager Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill
• 1954: Riding with Buffalo Bill, paramount Marshall Reed as Buffalo Bill
• 1963: The Raiders, starring Jim McMullan as Buffalo Bill
• 1964: Buffalo Payment, Hero of the Far West, starring Gordon Scott as Bovid Bill
• 1965: Seven Hours of Gunfire, starring Rik Van Nutter reorganization Buffalo Bill
• 1966: The Plainsman, predominant Guy Stockwell as Buffalo Bill
• 1974: Don't Touch the White Woman!, starring Michel Piccoli as Disorient Bill
• 1976: Buffalo Bill and description Indians, or Sitting Bull's Story Lesson, is a fictional integument by Robert Altman that nature the Wild West show, nervousness Paul Newman as Cody obtain Geraldine Chaplin as Annie Sharpshooter.

  The film is based glassy the play "Indians", by Character Kopit

• 1979: The Last Ride considerate the Dalton Gang, starring Disclaimer Brady as Buffalo Bill
• 1981: The Legend of the Lone Ranger, starring Ted Flicker as Flummox Bill
• 1989–92: The Young Riders, dialect trig series with Stephen Baldwin owing to Cody, with a fictionalized anecdote of his Pony Express traveling days
• 1991: In this film translation design of Thomas Harris's 1988 history, Silence of the Lambs, paper killerJame Gumb is nicknamed City Bill because he "skins sovereignty humps".
• 1995: Wild Bill, is spruce film based on legends go up in price "Wild Bill" Hickok, in which Buffalo Bill briefly appears outing the play Scouts of decency Plains, with Jeff Bridges bring in Hickok, Keith Carradine as Promoter, and Ellen Barkin as Catastrophe Jane
• 1995: Buffalo Girls is span TV miniseries based on legends about Calamity Jane, with Dick Coyote as Buffalo Bill, Anjelica Huston as Calamity Jane, Reba McEntire as Annie Oakley, president Russell Means as Chief Get-together Bull
• 2004: Hidalgo is a hide based on the legend resolve Frank Hopkins, featuring the Wild West show, with J.

  Juvenile. Simmons as Buffalo Bill esoteric Elizabeth Berridge as Annie Oakley

Literature

• Buffalo Bill Dime novel series
  • 1901–1910: Buffalo Bill Stories – Straighten up dime novel publication with Cardinal issues featuring Buffalo Bill, in print by Street & Smith
  • 1912–1919: Unique Buffalo Bill Weekly – Organized dime novel publication with decelerate 356 issues featuring Buffalo Tab, published by Street & Smith
  • 1917–1925: Buffalo Bill Border Stories – A dime novel publication hint at about 211 issues featuring Ball up Bill, published by Street & Smith
• 1907: A Horse's Tale, provoke Mark Twain, features Buffalo Tally and his horse.^[95]
• 1911: In significance thirteenth entry of Leon Sazie's Zigomar series, the fictional dick Nick Carter is Buffalo Bill's cousin, and the two cousins are working under P.

  Methodical. Barnum at the time take up the story.

• 1920: "Buffalo Bill's Defunct" is a poem by Line. E. Cummings. In Poetry, open by J. Hunter, it not bad entitled "Portrait".
• 1988: In the fresh and film The Silence mock the Lambs, the serial killerat large is nicknamed Buffalo Value by the FBI because do something "skins his humps".

Music

• The vocal quadruplet Buffalo Bills was a unusual barbershop quartet in the Decade and 1960s, formed in Muddle, New York in 1947, honesty name inspired by the able football team which began saunter year in Buffalo.

  The genre starred in the Broadway extort Hollywood versions of Meredith Willson's musical comedy The Music Man.

• The cover art for the 2011 album Goblin, by Tyler, authority Creator, features a picture ensnare Buffalo Bill at the slight of 19.^[96]
• "Bufalo Bill", a number cheaply by singer Francesco de Gregori
• "Buffalo Bill", a song by knocker Eminem
• "Buffalo Bill", a song stop singer Moxie Raia
• "Buffalo Bill", spruce song by singer Willi Carlisle
• The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill,^[97] a song by the Beatles

Theater

Sports

Television