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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.
Louisa Maud Frederici Cody (May 27, 1844 – October 21, 1921) was the wife of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. She married on March 6, 1866, on her family farm in Arnold, Missouri , and remained in a rocky relationship for 51 years until Cody's death in 1917.
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.
He married Maud Maria Lee in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and the name Samuel Franklin Cody appears on the April 1889 marriage certificate. Cody arrived in Europe in 1890, claiming to be the son of the well-known William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, though in fact the two were unrelated. [6] Cody, together with his wife, toured England with a shooting act.
In the same year, Buntline and James Gordon Bennett Jr. invited Cody to New York City, where Cody saw the play at the Bowery Theater. In December of that year, Buntline also wrote a Buffalo Bill play, Scouts of the Prairie, which was performed by Cody himself, Texas Jack Omohundro, the Italian ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi, and Buntline. [14]
Even though Buffalo Bill Cody went on to become the better known of the two Buffalo Bills — he was a showman who was adept at self promotion — even he acknowledged that Mathewson was the ...
Coe was a fan of the American West; in 1910, he purchased Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's 492-acre (1.99 km 2) hunting camp, Irma Lake Lodge, in Cody, Wyoming. [1] [6] For 45 years, he collected Americana memorabilia, gathering original diaries, manuscripts, letters and photographs depicting the struggles of the pioneer settlers.
William F. Cody (USA 1846-1917) nicknamed Buffalo Bill by the men of the Union Pacific Railway whom he supplied with buffalo meat. He became famous for downing a record 4280 buffaloes in eight months. Francesco Coda, Avella 1858 - Naples 1933. Ecclesiastic painter (gold decorations in the Gesu' Nuovo church - Naples).