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	Encyclopedia: Buffalo Bill Cody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Buffalo Bill (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was born William Frederick Cody in the American state of Iowa.
		Buffalo Bill may have been a rough-hewn outdoorsman, but was something of a liberal, pushing for rights of American Indians as well as women, and despite his history of killing the buffalo, he spoke out for conservation of this American symbol.
		Buffalo Bill is also the name of a fictional character from Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Buffalo-Bill-Cody (799 words)

	Buffalo Bill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buffalo Bill (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was born William Frederick Cody in the American state of Iowa, near Le Claire.
		Buffalo Bill was born in 1846, the year before Mormon pioneers went west to Utah and two years before gold was discovered in California.
		Buffalo Bill may have been a rough-hewn outdoorsman, but was also something of a liberal, pushing for the rights of American Indians and women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buffalo_Bill_Cody (1130 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William F. Cody
		All the while Cody was earning a reputation for skill and bravery in real life, he was also becoming a national folk hero, thanks to the exploits of his alter ego, "Buffalo Bill," in the dime novels of Ned Buntline (pen name of the writer E. Judson).
		In 1872 Buntline persuaded Cody to assume this role on stage by starring in his play, The Scouts of the Plains, and though Cody was never a polished actor, he proved a natural showman, winning enthusiastic applause for his good-humored self-portrayal.
		Cody died on January 10, 1917, and is buried in a tomb blasted from solid rock at the summit of Lookout Mountain near Denver, Colorado.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/buffalobill.htm (904 words)

	history
		William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was born in LeClaire, Iowa in 1846.
		Cody’s life in the West offered the stuff from which legends were made and he soon was popularized in newspaper accounts and dime novels.
		Cody treated his former foes with great respect and dignity, giving them an opportunity to leave the reservation and represent their culture when many were trying to destroy it.
	www.buffalobill.org /history.htm (1397 words)

	BUFFALO BILL
		The people of Cody have planned a year long celebration to commemorate the centennial of their town and the 150th Birthday of Colonel William F. Cody, the world-famous showman and scout, better known as Buffalo Bill held in February.
		The Cody Stampede and Rodeo was founded, along with the establishment of the Buffalo Bill Museum and erection of the famous statue of Buffalo Bill called "The Scout." During this time the gas and oil interests were developed, producing significant economic benefit to the community.
		Cody was chosen as the county seat of Park County in 1909.
	www.americanwest.com /pages/buffbill.htm (1890 words)

	WILLIAM F. "BUFFALO BILL" CODY
		Cody was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1872 for action against Indians at the South Fork of the Loup River in Nebraska.
		Buffalo Bill was also commonly referred to as “Colonel Cody.” His rank was provided by Nebraska Governor John Thayer (former governor of Wyoming Territory)in 1887, when he was named aide-de-camp of the Governor’s staff.
		Buffalo Bill was also instrumental in bringing a rail line to the town of Cody in 1901.
	wyoarchives.state.wy.us /articles/buffalob.htm (761 words)

	Buffalo Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Raised William Frederick Cody, Buffalo Bill was born in Scott County, Iowa, in 1846.
		Cody was an army scout during the Indian conflicts, and then acted as a guide for scientists, sportsmen and tourists in the West.
		Buffalo Bill died in 1917, his gravesite (http://www.msn.com) on Lookout Mountain is a popular tourist visit.
	212.net /buffalo.htm (287 words)

	Buffalo Bill Hunts: Buffalo Bill Cody
		Cody continued to hunt for the railroad for 17 months, and was said to have killed as many as 4,280 head of buffalo during that time.
		Cody went on the have 1,700 dime novels written about him, was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor, and traveled the globe with his Wild West show.
		But Cody never forgot where he came from, and when he died on the 10th of January, 1917, he was put to rest at the summit of Lookout Mountain in Colorado, overlooking the prairies that he helped to make great.
	www.buffalobillhunts.com /buffalo-bill.php (252 words)

	William Cody (Buffalo Bill)
		Cody later claimed he had killed their leader, Tall Bull, but this was disputed by others who were involved in the operation.
		Cody seemed never to tire and was always ready to go, in the darkest night or the worst weather, and usually volunteered, knowing what the emergency required.
		The principal article of fuel found on the frontier for cooking the meat of the buffalo was the dried excrement of the animal, known in early Kansas and Nebraska parlance as "buffalo chips." The buffalo was one of the noblest of all animals.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWbuffalobill.htm (3387 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody
		Buffalo Bill was born in Le Claire, Iowa in 1846.
		Bill Cody ties in with the story A Family Apart in, that Mike saw a sign that wanted Pony Express riders that were skinny, brave, and under 18.
		After Mike looked at the sign he saw Bill Cody jump on a horse and ride off, because of that Mike wanted to learn to ride and have some adventures in his life.
	www.bgcs.k12.oh.us /reinhart/apart/buffalo.htm (184 words)

	William Frederick Cody
		Cody served as a scout for the Union's 7th Kansas Cavalry during the last years of the Civil War.
		When Buffalo Bill, in his stage clothing, killed and scalped a Cheyenne warrior named Yellow Hair (often mis-translated as "Yellow Hand"), he reportedly cried out "First scalp for Custer!" Buffalo Bill the frontiersman had proven that Buffalo Bill the character was no mere actor.
		Cody was America's ideal man: a courtly, chivalrous, self-made fellow who could shoot a gun and charm a crowd.
	www.bbhc.org /bbm/biographyBB.cfm (903 words)

	BUFFALO BILL CODY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Isaac Cody, a frontier abolitionist deeply involved in the Free Soil Movement, was stabbed by a political opponent and died in 1857.
		Billy Cody was hired on as a bull-whacker for wagon trains, and thus began several years of riding and shooting and hanging around cavalry posts and stage stops.At the tender age of 14, he set the record for the thirdlongest Pony Express leg, riding 321 miles in less than 22 hours.
		In 1872, Cody traveled to New York and attended opening night of the play at the Bowery Theater.When the audience learned the real Buffalo Bill was in the house, the cheering and whooping went on until Cody made his way to the stage to say a few words.
	www.cosmos-club.org /journals/2002/white.html (3228 words)

	Adventures of Wells Fargo - Buffalo Bill Cody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Buffalo Bill Cody probably typifies the Wild West to more people in more parts of the world than anyone.
		The "Buffalo Bill" coach was a three-quarter scale version of the nine-passenger mail coaches used by Wells Fargo.
		Like the West he grew to represent, the legend of Buffalo Bill is a complex mixture of fact and fiction.
	wellsfargo.com /about/stories/bbill (336 words)

	Montana: The Magazine of Western History: Contradictory Legacies of Buffalo Bill Cody's First Scalp for Custer, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cody and Custer had been friends, and the news of Custer's death was personally horrifying to Cody.
		Cody's "first scalp for Custer" became a legacy he created but then could never shake, though one senses that as the years passed he wanted to very badly.
		Cody was, as later observers noted, authenticating for future stage audiences the dramatic but heretofore fictional attire of a plainsman.
	www.24hourscholar.com /p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200504/ai_n13602238/pg_... (1127 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody biography
		William Frederick Cody, the man who would take the Wild West to the world, was born on February 26, 1846 in Scott County, Iowa.
		Soon Cody made the acquaintance of Ned Buntline, a dime novelist who was intent on making Buffalo Bill a star.
		By 1872 Cody was touring the country appearing in Buntline produced stage dramas like ‘The Scouts of the Plains.’ The applause he received was mesmerizing to Cody and set within him a determination to become a life long showman.
	ks.essortment.com /buffalobillcod_rxdx.htm (866 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody
		William Frederick Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, was a buffalo hunter, U.S. army scout, and an Indian fighter.
		He produced a colorful show called Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, which had an international reputation and helped create a lasting image of the American West.
		Buffalo Bill was a major contributor in the creation of the myth of the American West, as seen in Hollywood movies and television.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/cody (90 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody
		It was while working under this contract that he acquired the sobriquet of "Buffalo Bill." It clung to him ever after, and he wore it with more pride than he would have done the title of prince or grand duke.
		Buffaloes were usually plentiful enough, but there were times when the camp supply of meat ran short.
		The heads of the buffaloes that fell in this hunt were mounted by the Kansas Pacific Railroad Cormpany, and distributed about the country, as advertisements of the region the new road was traversing.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/bios/chpt16.htm (2296 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Buffalo Bill Cody, and his Wild West Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Buffalo Bill was not the originator of the Wild West Show or, indeed, the only person to stage one.
		Some of Cody's Indians returned to help in the Army's peacemaking efforts, and Cody himself volunteered his services in the last major Sioux uprising of 1890-91 as an ambassador to Sitting Bull, who had returned from Canada to lend his presence as a spiritual leader to his countrymen.
		Buffalo Bill kept the show going with several other partners until his death in 1917,; and the show ended a year later.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100312 (1043 words)

	William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Born William Frederick Cody in LeClaire, Iowa in 1846, by age 22 he was rechristened "Buffalo Bill" by winning an eight–hour shooting match with hunter William Comstock.
		That was the year Ned Buntline persuaded Buffalo Bill to appear in a dramatized version of one his novels, one whose hero had been inspired by Cody.
		In 1887 Buffalo Bill was a featured attraction at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
	www.angelfire.com /apes/westlegends/Cody.htm (252 words)

	Who was Buffalo Bill Cody?
		Many of Cody's exploits, in line with his newspaper coverage perhaps, were captured in photographs or in drawings.
		Buffalo Bill and Count Dracula - Article in the Casper Star-Tribune about a scholar talks about Buffalo Bill's influence on Bram Stoker and his novel "Dracula".
		Cody's image was maintained via the press of the day in reporting on Cody's activities.
	www.richgros.com /Cody/who_was_he.html (804 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody
		May Cody was his youngest sister, and he often used to take her with him on the plains in the early days.
		Julia Cody Goodman, and another relative, Miss Hazel Olive Bennet—who made this story possible, and to whose kindly influence and intelligent cooperation the world is indebted for this interview—myself, and that white, calm figure, William Frederick Cody.
		The wild cattle (the buffalo), savage and untamable as the wolves that followed them, ruined fences and crops and killed all domestic cattle, for it is death for the domestic cow—due to the hump on the calf—to breed with the buffalo bull, and the buffalo bulls could easily run down and kill any domestic bull.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/preservation/bios/zane.htm (3134 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A biography of Buffalo Bill, as a pioneer of the American frontier, and as an entertainer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
		A biography of William Frederick Cody, as a pioneer, soldier, and founder and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
		A biography of the flamboyant Buffalo Bill, who at fourteen rode for the Pony Express, later became a famous scout for the cavalry, and finally became the dashing showman of the "Wild West Circus."
	www.rbls.lib.il.us /sel/buffalo_bill_cody.htm (364 words)

	Buffalo Bill
		Buffalo Bill, 1846–1917, American plainsman, scout, and showman, b.
		His adventures on the Western frontier as an army scout and later as a buffalo hunter for railroad construction camps on the Great Plains were the basis for the stories later told about him.
		In 1883 he organized Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and he toured with it throughout the United States and Europe for many years.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0809350.html (214 words)

	ipedia.com: Buffalo Bill Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Buffalo Bill was born William Frederick Cody in the American state of Iowa.
		By his own request, he was buried on Lookout Mountain, west of the city of Denver, Colorado, on the edge of the Rocky Mountains overlooking the Great Plains.
		Buffalo Bill also names a character from Thomas Harris's Silence of the Lambs.
	www.ipedia.com /buffalo_bill.html (602 words)

	Buffalo Bill Cody
		Born William Frederick Cody in LeClaire, Iowa in 1846.
		Buffalo Bill would later speak out for the rights of the Indians and he would become a Justice of the Peace.
		Cody said, "I did not fire a shot in the Yellow Hand affair.
	www.kickingupdust.com /BuffaloBillCody.htm (666 words)

	Cody, Wyoming Chamber of Commerce-We are Yellowstone Country
		Cody, Wyoming, the eastern gateway to Yellowstone National Park, is a small western town with a big city attitude.
		The Cody Country Chamber of Commerce, Wyoming’s oldest, was founded at the turn of the 20th Century by George T. Beck, originally as a hunting club, and a group of enterprising Cody business leaders, including Col. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody.
		Together Cody and the Cody Chamber of Commerce have nurtured a diversified business community focused on energy, tourism, agriculture, manufacturing, retail and the arts while fostering the western spirit epitomized by their namesake.
	www.codychamber.org (206 words)

	Photograph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of all the names from this country's frontier past, few are more familiar than that of "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
		By the early 1870s, he had earned a reputation as an uncommonly skilled buffalo hunter and one of the army's most daring western scouts.
		In 1883 Cody began touring with his Wild West Show, an extravaganza that combined sharpshooting and riding exhibitions with reenactments of colorful moments in the West's history.
	www.150.si.edu /150trav/remember/r1113.htm (103 words)

	In Search of Buffalo Bill Cody
		My mother was a Cody and the family was strong in north central Ohio where we lived.
		This group celebrates the fact that they are part of the line that started with Phillip Cody in Europe in the 17th Century.
		I'd been aware of my "Cody connection" since a young man but it was only recently that my interest was kindled in finding out more about my famous relative.
	www.richgros.com /Cody (291 words)

	Cody Stampede Rodeo, Rodeo in Cody Wyoming
		The Cody Stampede Rodeo is a truly Western event that has its roots in ranch contests and games as well as spectacle and drama borrowed from the world famous Wild West shows produced by Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody.
		The Cody Stampede Rodeo is where cowboys and cowgirls win the big purses and ride the best stock.
		Cody is located in Northwestern Wyoming, serviced by Yellowstone Regional Airport and just 52 scenic miles East of Yellowstone National Park where you can see Old Faithful, geysers, wildlife and so much more.
	www.codystampederodeo.org (239 words)

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