William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)

William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody (February 26, 1846 - January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, buffalo hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Clair, Iowa (now Iowa, USA), but lived for several years in his father’s hometown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in Kansas territory. Buffalo Bill began working at the age of eleven, after the death of his father and became a Pony Express racer at the age of 15. During the American Civil War, he served in the Union from 1863 until the end of the war in 1865. He later served as a civilian intelligence officer for the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars, receiving an Honorary Medal in 1872. The legend of Buffalo Bill, one of the most famous and famous figures of the American Old West, began to spread when he was only 23 years old. Soon after, he began performing in a show where cowboy stories and episodes from the border and Indian wars were shown. He founded Buffalo Bill's “Wild West” in 1883, sending his big company on tours in the United States and, starting in 1887, in the UK and continental Europe.