Buffalo Bill Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
William F. Cody was born on February 26, 1846 in Scott County, Iowa, USA as William Frederick Cody. He was a writer and producer, known for The Adventures of Buffalo Bill (1917), The Indian Wars (1914) and The Wild West Comes to Town (1913). He was married to Louise Maude Frederici. He died on January 10, 1917 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Son of Isaac Cody and wife Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock, daughter of Samuel Laycock and wife Hannah Taylor and, by her, a distant relative of both Richard Nixon and Al Gore.
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Supported Indian and women's rights; he was also a conservationist.
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1958: Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
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1883: Staged his first Wild West Show in Omaha, NE.
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By the time he died, he was almost broke.
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Before he went into show business, he had been a trapper, a bullwhacker, a Colorado "Fifty-Niner", Pony Express rider (1860), wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, Civil War soldier, and even hotel manager.
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1872: Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role as a scout for the United States Army (1868-1872).
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6/6/88: Pictured on a 15¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans series.
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Pictured (as Buffalo Bill) on one of a set of twenty 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating Legends of the West, issued 18 October 1994. A set of twenty 19¢ US postcards with pictures of the stamps was issued on the same date. Other persons honored in the two sets are Annie Oakley, Bill Pickett, William Tilghman, Jim Bridger, Wyatt Earp, John C. Fremont, William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, Chief Joseph, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit Carson, Geronimo, Charles Goodnight, Nellie Cashman, Sacajawea and Jim Beckwourth.
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