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Buffalo Bill, byname of William Frederick Cody, (born February 26, 1846, Scott county, , which came to be known as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, evolved into an international institution and made him one of the world’s first global celebrities.

Early years

Cody’s father, Isaac, moved his family from their farm near LeClaire, Iowa, on the , who intervened on his side in a fight Cody was having with an older man.

Pony Express rider

Although Cody’s name does not appear in the official records of the warriors to Three Crossings Station, Wyoming, only to find the station keeper dead and the horses stolen. He narrowly escaped to the next station, but, after arriving there, he gathered and led a group of men against the Indians, surprising them at their camp and retaking the stolen horses. Cody’s cunning was the centrepiece of another often-recounted episode in which, called upon to deliver a large sum of money and fearing that he would be robbed, he hid the currency under his saddle blanket and stuffed paper into his Pony Express mochila (saddlebag). When he was indeed held up at gunpoint, he threw the treasureless mochila at the bandits and then made good his escape.

Scout and soldier

During the .

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Cody acquired a reputation not only for accurate marksmanship but also for total recall of the vast terrain he had earlier in the year.