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Scout's Rest Ranch |
North Platte |
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Buffalo Bill Cody visits Ash Hill. |
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Ash Hill |
Hyattsville |
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| 1846/02/26 |
William F Cody is born on a farm in Napsinekee Hollow, LeClaire, Iowa - marker at NE corner of Territorial Rd and 270th Ave |
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LeClaire |
Iowa |
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| 1849/00/00 |
Issac Cody builds a home for his family (marker about 100 block N Cody St) in LeClaire, Iowa (some sources give 1841) |
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Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home |
Cody |
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| 1850/00/00 |
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Home |
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Cody Homestead |
McCausland |
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| 1857/00/00 |
Cody goes to work herding cattle and as a driver on a wagon train. |
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| 1859/04/00 |
In spring of 1859, Buffalo Bill spends two months prospecting for gold near Black Hawk, Colorado during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. |
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Central City-Black Hawk Historic District |
Black Hawk |
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| 1859/04/00 |
In spring of 1859, Buffalo Bill spends two months prospecting for gold near Black Hawk, Colorado during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. |
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Central City-Black Hawk Historic District |
Central City |
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| 1872/12/17 |
"Scouts of the Prairie" opens in Chicago. Created by dime novelist Ned Buntline, the drama stared Buntline, William Cody and scout, "Texas Jack" Omohundro. |
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| 1873/00/00 |
Cody's acting troupe, the Buffalo Bill Combination, stage "Scouts of the Plains" starring Buffalo Bill Cody, "Wild Bill" Hickok and "Texas Jack" Omohundro. |
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| 1879/00/00 |
The "Buffalo Bill Combination" performs at the Central City Opera. |
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Central City Opera House |
Central City |
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| 1889/08/00 |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show performs at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 |
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1889 Exposition Universelle |
| 1890/00/00 |
Buffalo Bill Cody probably stayed at the Occidental. |
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The Occidental Hotel |
Buffalo |
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| 1893/00/00 |
As early as 1893, Buffalo Bill Cody enjoys mint julips at George T Beck's Ranch, which were made in water buckets, after hunting trips in the bighorn Mountains. |
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Bighorn National Forest |
Wyoming |
Mint Julep |
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| 1893/06/00 |
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show plays next to the World's Columbian Exposition fairgrounds |
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Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance |
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| 1896/00/00 |
Buffalo Bill Cody manages the Sheridan Inn from 1894 to 1896, often auditioning talent for the touring company of his Wild West Show from the front porch. |
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Sheridan Inn |
Sheridan |
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| 1897/06/00 |
"Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show entertains Queen Victoria at her Golden Jubilee celebration. She attended the show twice. |
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Queen Victoria's Jubilee |
| 1901/00/00 |
Buffalo Bill's 1904 Hunting lodge. |
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Pahaska Tepee |
East Yellowstone |
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| 1909/00/00 |
Howard Gould divorces his wife, actress Katherine Clemmons, she was accused of adultery with William Cody |
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Marriage of Katherine Clemmons and Howard Gould |
| 1912/04/14 |
Buffalo Bill Cody and his foster son Lewis Henry "Johnny" Baker established High Jinks as a gold mine and ranch. |
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La Casa del High Jinks |
Oracle |
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| 1913/07/21 |
Denver publisher Harry Tammen seizes "Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill's Wild West" show in Denver, Colorado for non-payment of a loan. The Wild West show is sold at auction in Denver's Overland Park and Cody agrees to join Tammen's Sells Floto Circus. |
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Denver |
Colorado |
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| 1917/01/10 |
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody passes away while visiting his sister's home in Denver, Colorado. |
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| 1917/06/03 |
Buffalo Bill is buried on Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado. |
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Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum and Grave |
Golden |
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