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He assumed his nickname for supplying Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. The nickname originally referred to Bill Comstock . Cody won the nickname from him in a buffalo killing contest 69 to 48.
He worked many jobs, having been a trapper, bullwhacker, " Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, a Civil War soldier, and even a hotelHotel" is the letter H in the NATO phonetic alphabet See Hotel for the American television program that aired on ABC from 1983 until 1988. A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of additional managerManagement (from Old French, "menagement" "the art of conducting, directing", from Latin "manum agere" "lead by the hand") characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and mani. But he became famous for his Wild West Show .
After being a frontiersmanThe Frontier in the United States and Canada was the term applied until the end of the 19th century to the zone of unsettled land outside the region of existing settlements of European immigrants and their descendants. In a broad sense, the notion of the, Buffalo Bill entered show business. He toured the United States in plays based on his Western adventures, and, in Omaha, NebraskaOmaha, Nebraska County Douglas County, Nebraska Area Total Water 1,290. 6 km˛ (498. 86% Population Total ( 2000) Density 390,007 1,301. 5/ km˛ Time zone Central: UTC-6 Latitude Longitude 41°15'38" N96°0'47" W Omaha is the largest city in Nebraska. It is t in 1883Events January January 16 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed January 19 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service ( Roselle, New Jersey) It was built by Thomas E, founded the "Buffalo Bill Wild West Show," a circusA circus is usually a travelling show that includes acrobats, animal trainers, clowns and other novelty acts. However, there are circuses today with a permanent venue that do not travel, and some circuses do not have animal acts. Big Top of Billy Smart's-like attraction that toured annually: Annie OakleyAnnie Oakley 13 August, 1860 3 November, 1926) nee Phoebe Ann Moses, born in Darke County, Ohio, United States, was a markswoman in the American west. After defeating a sideshow marksman named Frank Butler in 1880, she married him. She joined the Buffalo and Sitting Bull both appeared in the show. In 1887 he performed in London in celebration of the Jubilee year of Queen Victoria, and toured Europe in 1889. He set up an exhibition near the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 (properly the World's Columbian Exposition), which greatly contributed to his popularity.
He saw the American West dramatically change during his tumultuous life, seeing Wyoming's coal, oil and natural gas resources begin to be exploited towards the end of his life. The Buffalo Bill Dam was built on the Shoshone River after 1904, a dam used for hydroelectric power and irrigation.
William Cody recieved the Medal of Honor in 1872 for "gallantry in action" while serving as a civilian scout for the 3rd cavalry. His medal was revoked on February 5, 1917, 26 days after his death, because he was a civilian, and thus ineligable for the award under new guidelines for the award in 1917. The medal was restored in 1989 by the U.S. Army
He died on January 10, 1917. By his own request, he was buried on Lookout Mountain (Colorado) , west of the city of Denver, Colorado, on the edge of the Rocky Mountains overlooking the Great Plains.