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Buffalo Bill Essays -- essays research papers
Buffalo Bill      William Frederick Cody, also known as Buffalo Bill, was born into an anti-slavery family. He had a rough childhood, but despite this hardship he grew up to be an adventurous wild west showman, and achieve many historical goals.      On February 26, 1846, near the small town of LeClair, Iowa, William F. Cody was born to Isacc and Marry Ann Cody. At the time William had two sisters, Martha and Julia, and a brother, Samuel. But he ended up with three more sisters, Eliza, Helen, and May, and another brother, Charlie. In the first eight years of his childhood, William grew up on a farm his father owned and worked. During this time, William had plenty of space on the Plains to play with his brother Sam and his black dog, Turk. William also had some young Indian friends he met while on a picnic with his sisters. The Indians were trying to steal the Cody's lunch, but Bill stopped them and became friends with them. Besides picnics, young Will also enjoyed riding horses, having pretend Indian fights with Sam, and hunting in the woods. Sadly, Samuel died when he was thrown from his horse. Because of this, William not only lost a brother but he lost a very good friend.      In 1854 William, along with his anti-slavery family, moved near the city of Leavenworth, Kansas. This was not an easy move for the Cody family seeing how most of that part of Kansas was pro slavery. They were worried about this because earlier in Iowa a dispute about slavery between Isacc and his brother Elijah, led to Elijah stabbing Isacc. Luckily, he survived and nothing like this happened in Kansas. While in Iowa, Bill had received no education. After moving to Kansas he attended several sessions of country school organized by his father. In the two and a half months he attended, Bill learned to read and write which would help him in his future careers.      In order to help his family after his father's death in 1857, William took his first job working for the firm, Russel Majors & Waddel, making wagon- train trips across the Plains. It was rough, but William enjoyed these frequent trips. Later, Will road for the Pony Express when it was established in 1860, and was a scout and guide for the Union Army.      When the Civil War started in 1863, Bill... ...g buffalo in his show and raising them on his ranch, Bill helped save them from possible extinction. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show also offered Indians employment at a time when their opportunities were few, and many of them, for the first time thus learned of a world beyond the limits of their villages.      After 1894 Cody lived on a ranch in the Bighorn Basin in northwestern Wyoming where he raised buffalo. He also founded the town of Cody where he built the Irma Hotel, named after his daughter, which still stands today.      On January 10, 1917, near Denver, Colorado, the wild west legend, Buffalo Bill Cody, died. His grave is located on Lookout Mountain, near the town of Golden, Colorado, and can be seen by tourists.      Buffalo Bill Cody was very important to the west. Even though he made the mistake of killing thousands of buffalo, he realized this and made up for it by repopulating and raising buffalo. Cody was lucky in some aspects; one was living in the wide open Plains. William Frederick Cody should be remembered as a wild west legend who showed what life was like in The Great Plains of America.
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