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Buffalo Bill was born in Scott country,Iowa
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His father died in 1857.
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Buffalo Bill was 14 when he first rode the pony express.
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Buffalo Bill tried his luck as a prospector in the Pikes Peak gold rush.
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Cody took up the trade that gave him his nickname, hunting buffalo to feed the construction crews of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
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By his own count, he killed 4,280 head of buffalo in seventeen months.
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He was chief of scouts for the Fifth Cavalry and took part in 16 battles.
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He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1872 because of the service over these years.
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Cody’s own theatrical genius revealed itself in 1883, when he organized Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, an outdoor extravaganza that dramatized some of the most picturesque elements of frontier life: a buffalo hunt with real buffalo's, an Indian attack on the Deadwood stage with real Indians, a Pony Express ride, and at the climax, a tableau presentation of Custer’s Last Stand in which some Lakota who had actually fought in the battle played a part.
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In later years Buffalo Bill’s Wild West would star the sharpshooter Annie Oakley, the first "King of the Cowboys,"
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Buffalo Bill died in 1917
