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Editor’s note: This is the sixth in an ongoing series about Buffalo Bill Cody observing the 100th anniversary of his death. In 1899 alone, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West traveled more than 11,000 miles in ...
He later founded “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West,” which featured re-enactments of Pony Express rides and Indian attacks. and turned him into an international celebrity. With the show’s proceeds, Cody ...
Buffalo Bill and his Mile High ties. By Bill Briggs Denver Post Staff Writer Feb. 4, 2001 - Near the end, as he lay dying in a house on Lafayette Street, Buffalo Bill Cody must really,truly have hated ...
DENVER — The month of January has plenty of famous chapters in Colorado’s history book. On January 10, 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody passed away while visiting his sister in Denver, Colorado. Bill … ...
Born in 1846 on a farm in Iowa, William Frederick Cody went on to achieve worldwide fame as a buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout during the Indian Wars and host of a touring Wild West show that lent ...
DENVER (CBS4) - What started as hunting buffalo for workers became fighting for the West's way of life through showbiz. Born in 1846, Buffalo Bill, otherwise known as William F. Cody, is the Wild ...
An estimated 20,000 people came to the burial. (Lola will host a happy hour “wake” and multicourse dinner on January 12 with food and booze inspired by the fare at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.) Rest ...
A horse was tethered to a railing, and at the sound of gunfire he started to “dance,” trained to do such a thing while he was in the Wild West, Buffalo Bill’s famous spectacle of which ...
The grave atop Lookout Mountain in Golden where Buffalo Bill may (or may not) be buried. —Image courtesy of Billy Hathorn, via Wikimedia Commons The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life ...
Soon after he reported, Cody was credited with killing Cheyenne “Dog Soldier” Tall Bull during the Battle of Summit Springs on July 11, 1869, south of present-day Sterling, Colorado.