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The Buffalo Bill Museum, located in LeClaire, Iowa, is focused on life along the Mississippi River and local history. One exhibit is the Lone Star , a wooden, paddlewheel steam-powered towboat that is housed in a special pier.
LeClaire is a city in Scott County, Iowa, ... Railway train derailed on 3 January 2020 around 11:00 a.m. near the Buffalo Bill Museum in downtown LeClaire, ...
The museum is named after LeClaire-born William Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, the American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman responsible for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West touring show.
William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.. One of the most famous and well-known figures of the American Old West, Cody started his legend at the young age of 23.
Lone Star is a wooden hull, steam-powered stern-wheeled towboat in LeClaire, Iowa, United States.She is dry docked and on display at the Buffalo Bill Museum in LeClaire. Built in 1868, she is the oldest of three surviving steam-powered towboats, and the only one with a wooden hull.
The farmhouse was built in 1847 by Isaac Cody, Buffalo Bill's father, of native limestone and contains walnut floors and trim. [2] Isaac and Mary Cody, parents of the legendary Buffalo Bill, moved their family to the homestead from LeClaire, Iowa, where Bill was born and raised.
The Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home was built by Isaac Cody, the father of Buffalo Bill Cody in 1841 at LeClaire, Iowa.The house was purchased as a tourist attraction by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and was moved to Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill's adopted hometown, in 1933.
Le Claire Township covers an area of 26.3 square miles (68 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Le Claire. According to the USGS, it contains four cemeteries: Fairview, Glendale, Jacks and LeClaire Prairie. The streams of McCarty Creek, Olathea Creek, Silver Creek and Sycamore Creek run through this township.