Term Papers on Buffalo Bill Cody- Wild West Showman

Term Paper Title	Buffalo Bill Cody- Wild West Showman
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Buffalo Bill Cody- Wild West Showman

     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 Cody enlisted in the
7th Kansas Cavalry as an army scout in Indian campaigns.  In 1866,
after the war was over, Bill bought and ran a hotel in Kansas called
the "Golden Rule House Hotel".
     After this failed, Bill contracted with the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, in 1867-1868, to furnish buffalo meat to the workers on the
line.  This earned him his nickname, Buffalo Bill.
     In 1868-1872, Buffalo Bill served again as an army scout when
he was elected to the Nebraska legislature.  In 1872, after carrying
dispatches through hostile Indian country for Gen. Philip H. Sheridan,
he became chief of scouts for the 5th U.S. Cavalry for four years until
1876.  During this eight year period, Buffalo Bill took place in
sixteen Indian fights, including the defeat of the Cheyenne at Summit
Springs, Colorado (1869), and at Hat Creek, Wyoming in 1876, he was
famed for his "Killing of Yellow Hand".  Also during this time, in
1869, Ned Buntline (E. Z. C. Judson) made Buffalo Bill the hero of a
dime novel that was later dramatized, and in 1872 he persuaded Cody to
appear on stage.  Cody broke with Buntline afte...

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