Preview

Bufalo Bill

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
4055 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Bufalo Bill
Nickname and work[edit]

William Frederick Cody ("Buffalo Bill") got his nickname after the American Civil War when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody earned the nickname by killing 4,280 American bison (commonly known as buffalo) in eighteen months, (1867–1868).[1] Cody and William Comstock competed in a buffalo-shooting match over the exclusive right to use the name, which Cody won by killing 68 bison to Comstock's 48.[2]
Cody had documented service as a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars. He claimed to have had many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and a hotel manager, but historians have had difficulty documenting them, and he may have fabricated some for publicity.[3]
He became world famous for his Wild West shows, which toured in Great Britain and Europe. Audiences were enthusiastic about seeing a piece of the American West.[4] The adventure story writer Emilio Salgari met Buffalo Bill in Italy, saw his show, and later featured him as a hero in some of his novels.
Early life and education[edit]

William Frederick Cody was born on February 26, 1846 on a farm just outside of Le Claire, Iowa.[5] Cody's father Isaac was born in Toronto Township, Peel County, Upper Canada, on September 5, 1811. Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock, Cody's mother, was born about 1817 near Philadelphia but within New Jersey. Mary moved to Cincinnati to teach school and it was here she met and married Isaac. Mary was a descendant of Josiah Bunting, a Quaker who settled in Pennsylvania; however, there is no historical evidence to indicate Buffalo Bill was raised as a Quaker.[6] He was baptized as William Cody in the Dixie Union Chapel in Peel County (present-day Peel Region), Ontario, Canada in 1847, not far from his family's farm. The Chapel was built with Cody money and the land

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Crockett was a husband and father. He had three children with his first wife Polly. When his wife died, he mourned her for a short while and then married a young widow and added her two children to his brood. (Sorrels, pg46) He began his military career when he enlisted in the militia as a scout. He fought in the Creek Indian War. He was a tireless worker of great strength, a woodsmen, hunter; Crockett was courageous soldier and a man who wanted to improve the lot of his people. (Groneman, pg 137) In 1813, Davy joined the Tennessee militia to fight with General Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812. (…

    • 801 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Progressively Wild Bill Hickok’s eyesight became worse, so he decided to become a traveling gambler instead of being in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show. A few years later on March 5, 1876, Wild Bill Hickok married Agnes Thatcher Lake. After only a couple months of marriage, Wild Bill Hickok left Agnes to “seek his fortune in the goldfields of South Dakota”( Wild Bill Hickok). While in South Dakota, Wild Bill Hickok became a regular poker player. Just like many other poker players, he had won the game many times and he made many enemies. One of Wild Bill Hickok’s enemies, Jack McCall, who eventually killed Wild Bill Hickok on August 2, 1876. Wild Bill Hickok was killed while playing poker and the hand that he was holding consisted of two black aces and two black eights, better known as “Dead Man’s Hand”. The first time that Jack McCall was tried for murdering Wild Bill Hickok, he claimed that Wild Bill Hickok had killed his brother. It was discovered years later that Jack didn’t a brother. Jack had bragged for years about killing Wild Bill Hickok and he was arrested and hanged for his crime. Just like many of the other gunfights that Wild Bill Hickok was a part of, his death reached the newspapers and it too became a…

    • 884 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    APUSH Chapter 26 Notes

    • 4024 Words
    • 17 Pages

    Custer led about 400 cavalry against Crazy Horse who was labeled as a "hostile" Indian. Custer faced some 10,000 Indians, about 2,500 warriors. All 200+ or so of Custer's detachment were killed, including Custer himself, "Chief Yellow Hair."…

    • 4024 Words
    • 17 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    As he was gone into the forest he was a hat maker and some other things such as a farmhand of teamster. A teamster is a person who drives cattle as he did that he was trying to keep away from school and his dad. He was also a veteran of the creek war and the war of 1812. Some of the time he would also hunt bears for fun and that was one why how he got famous. Crockett also did this for oil, meat, and for money that he can get his own land and his own general store. Some people made a play about him and the basically made him legendary by imitating him. Crockett also helped by making an assassination attempt fail on andrew Jackson. After he was in Texas he was there for only three months before he died at the Alamo to fight for texas from mexico. But as crockett was in the alamo he may have been the last person standing against Santa Anna and his army of one thousand eight hundred. He died as a great man he was a congressman and he did not always do bad things he was a frontier man and a legendary man. He did not want to die but he had to for texas. Since he was a legend he got a lot of praise as the frontier man. As crockett's death was a mystery Pena had a diary which was most likely the most truthful it said that he was surrounded by a lot of mexican soldiers so he got captured by santa anna and immediately got executed. Crockett's death will never be lost as he fought for a purpose and did not die in…

    • 534 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    James Hickok's Wild Law

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages

    James"Wild Bill" Hickok was born on May 27, 1837, in Troy Grove Illinois.He was an American frontiersman, army scout and lawmen who helped give some order to the frontier West.His marksmanship gave him a legendary rise and lifelong tales.He was an early hero of the West.…

    • 315 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    North Dakota Badlands

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages

    This is a hair - raising fact about the American ! As you can see in my introduction, these are also known as just simply Buffalo.…

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Dollar Bill Dbq

    • 187 Words
    • 1 Page

    One of the reasons of why the dollar bill represents why the Indian Removal Act was enforced was because of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was nothing more than an idea or belief that was popular in the 19th century. This belief was surrounded by Christianity. The belief was that the US was chosen by God to have land/resources. This relates to the dollar bill because it says: “In God We Trust”. The Native Tribes were being swept away and the white settlers believed that it was right for them to be swept away because they didn't believe in god. Their decisions were easier to justify because God was on their side. Manifest destiny was religion plus nationality. If you take your religion and say that you are chosen by god, it turns religion…

    • 187 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Kit Carson

    • 1453 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Carson was enamored with the mountains and the west. He would hold various jobs as a cook, a miner and a wagon driver. (Sanford & Green) Carson was still not content. In 1829 he joined Ewing Young on a trapping expedition to California and later he would join another trapping expedition to the center of the Rocky Mountains. (Historical) During this time Carson realized his passion and spent several years roaming the unexplored territory of the west. During this time Carson would also marry twice. The first marriage ending when his wife passed away from illness and his second marriage ended in divorce. (Sanford & Green) He would marry…

    • 1453 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    David Crockett's Legacy

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Page

    David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.[citation needed]…

    • 224 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    John Henry “Doc” Holliday is most known for his part in the OK Corral shootout and being friends with Wyatt Earp; however, he was also known as an outlaw. He was considered a hot head with a flash temper. It was best not to get on his bad side because he was an impressive gunslinger. Most people believe that he was a ruthless killer, although there are only two proven people that he killed. He was involved in eight shootouts in his life. He killed one man who was terrorizing his saloon and one man during the shootout at OK Corral. Doc got his nickname from his profession of dentistry. At a point in his life he began gambling for money and owned a saloon. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis at a young age and died because of it along with heavy…

    • 198 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Born of the frontier, lived in the wilderness, raised in the war against the outlaws, bandits, and crooks. This is just the outline of the life of Wyatt Earp. He was born on March 19, 1848 in Monmouth, Virginia, to his father Captain Nicholas Porter Earp and his second wife, Virginia Ann Cooksey Earp at Virginia’s sister’s house located on 406 South Third Street in Monmouth, Illinois. Wyatt’s full name was actually Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, named after his father’s commanding officer, Colonel Wyatt Berry Stapp during the Mexican American War. Wyatt Earp’s father served during this war and beforehand was a commissioned deputy sheriff, unpaid, which was probably one of the inspirations for Wyatt’s career.…

    • 852 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Not much is known about Hugh Glass, but he was known as a true American mountain man. Very little is known about Glass until around 1823 when he left St. Louis to go fur trapping with Ashley Company. Several months into the trip the company was attacked by Indians. Glass was slightly wounded in the battle it’s what happened next that made him truly famous. Soon after the Indian’s attack Glass was mauled by a bear. His wounds included a broken leg, ripped scalp, punctured throat, and numerous gashes. Two men from the company were chosen to stay with him they were: Jim Bridger and John Fitzgerald. The two men stayed with him for about a week until they decided that he…

    • 334 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    As a young boy Wyatt Earp wanted to grow up and fight in the Union Army in the civil war, but he is turned away because of his age. Then he goes and studies law and marries Urilla Sutherland the love of his life who later dies of typhoid fever before they can have children. He gets really upset and destroys the house they bought together and everything they owned. He then put together a bull hunting crew with Bat Masterson and his brother Ed. When hes through with that he and his two brothers Virgil and Morgan set out to clean up the violence filled towns in the West.…

    • 866 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ichabod Crane Plot

    • 668 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Characters • Ichabod Crane - He was a native Connecticut, a Playmate and companion of big boys in Sleepy Hollow. He was also a schoolmaster and choirmaster in his place • Katrina Van Tassel - He was the only child of substantial Dutch farmer. • Baltus Van Tassel -…

    • 668 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Rh Bill

    • 1324 Words
    • 6 Pages

    According to the bill itself, the RH Bill aims to achieve the objectives which are: 1) provide different mediums to parents in order for them to plan for the number and birth spacing of their children; 2) allow women to finish their education and secure work after; 3) develop maternal, neonatal and child health; 4) reduce mortalities involving mothers and children; 5) eliminate abortion cases by averting unwanted pregnancies and; 6) alleviate poverty and hunger.…

    • 1324 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays

Related Topics