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Buffalo Bill (William Cody) was born in Scott County, Iowa. This was a town close the LeClaire. William grew up next to the Mississippi river.
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William started working for a freight company. This helped him gain great skills as a horseman. he started working here at the age of 9.
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Cody began riding for the pony express. This was a business that delivered mail faster than any others at the time. He was only 14 when he started riding.
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He was a Union scout fighting against slavery. After being a scout, he enlisted in the Seventh Kansas Calvary. He fought in the war until 1865.
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William started hunting buffalo to feed the railroad workers. He killed nearly 4,300 buffalo and this is where he got his famous nickname, Buffalo Bill.
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Cody became a scout and guide for the U.S. Fifth Calvary. He did this to help stop the Indian resistance. This was happening on the land west of the Mississippi river.
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He was asked to do a show and it didn't take much convincing. He potrayed a western folk hero and it was a man much like himself. The play was called, "The Scouts on the Prairie". While doing all this acting stuff, he still was scouting and guiding hunts.
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He received the medal of honor for his brave efforts and dangerous tasks against the Indian resistance. This medal was, unfortunately, revoked in 1916. This was due to a new thing where persons who received the medal but never served official military service. In 1986, after his death, he was re-awarded the medal.
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Buffalo Bill created his own show. This was a live show where they put on scenes from wars to freight trains. This show started to come to an end in 1916. Bill was getting old.
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William died at the age of 71. He passed in Denver, Colorado. His death was likely caused by old age.
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