Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Codywas an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory, but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Canada before the family again moved to the Kansas Territory...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth26 February 1846
CountryUnited States of America
government ideas giving
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
summer country home
The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
boyfriend travel father
But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
firsts determined plans
My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.
opportunity cities fire
You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
men personal-knowledge half
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.
character men feet
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
reservations indian
Indians were frequently off their reservations.
numbers miles command
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
men years indian
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
home wife west
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
men granted slave
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.