Buffalo Bill
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
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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 after a year, but remained an actor for eleven seasons.
Cody made his first and most authentic autobiography in 1879. He was also the author of dime novels, as well as the hero of some 1,700 of these publications, most of them written by Prentiss Ingraham.
In 1883, Buffalo Bill was so inspired by the success at a July 4th celebration at North Platte, Nebraska, that he organized Buffalo Bill's
Caribbean Indian slaves, Tituba and John Indian. The Parris family also had two other children
He was the eldest of nine children, at the age of twelve he was sent to live with his grandmother.
Did you ever think about who was on the twenty dollar bill? Or if they deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill? Well, I’ll tell you that the 7th U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, was on the twenty dollar bill. Jackson was born poor, but worked his way up to become part of politician. He saved his wife from a bad relationship, went into wars for the country, propelled into presidency and payed off national debt. I think that Jackson deserves to be on that twenty dollar bill because he was a war hero, he saved the country from debt and kept the union together.
He had more than 5 siblings, he had 6 sisters:Eliza Ross,Maria Ross,Margaret Ross,Susannah Ross,Jennie Ross, and Annie Ross. He also had 2
The Brice family consisted of a family unit of five. The father Davie a lawyer, the mother Caroline, their teenage daughter Claudia, the younger daughter Laura and younger son Don.
After the incident at the O.K. corral Wyatt and Doc split and went their own ways. Doc weaved in and out of Colorado for some time. Doc knew that he possessed some kind of luck, he boasted that he had come close to losing his life about nine times. It was not uncommon for him to bump into random men that wanted to prove themselves by defeating him. Everyone who met him at some point his life could agree that he had a certain appreciation for manners and etiquette. After a long and grueling spat with Tuberculosis, Doc decided it was time to hang up the guns and settle down in the sleepy town of Glenwood Springs,
He was shocked to findout that his opponent was a little, slim girl. Annie ended up winning and got tickets to his nextshow. They ended up falling in love and getting married. For six years Annie traveled with herhusband and went to all of his shows, then she acted as an assistant for Frank after his partnerbecame ill. She held targets, until one night he wasn’t able to hit any targets, then somebodyfrom the crowd shouted, “Let the girl shoot!” Annie took the gun and hit every single target,after that night she went on to performing with Frank. They performed with the variety circuit,then went on to join the Sells Brothers Circus.Annie then applied for the Wild West show, but was turned down. Annie and Frank thenwent on to try out for the show and as they were warming up for their audition, before BuffaloBill even showed up, his business manager hired Annie on the spot. Annie made the audiencefeel safe and prepared them for the chaotic spectacles that followed: reenactments of Indiansattacking a settler's cabin and ambushing the Deadwood stagecoach, cowboys riding buckingbroncos, and Mexican vaqueros rushing in shooting off revolvers. Oakley wasn't the only womanin the show, but she was
Doc Holliday, the famous gunman, gambler and alcoholic. Many people know him as a murder, most people have no idea that he was a dentist. Holliday was good friends with the famous Wyatt Earp, who was also a well-known gambler.
Sadly enough Rich "suffered from a heart condition, and following surgery for a malignant brain tumor, died from heart failure in Los Angeles
Bill Donovan was the greatest spy ever. Bill donovan’s real name was William Joseph Donovan. He was born on January 1, 1883, in Buffalo, New York. He was even able to pick his own middle name.
Two sons, and most recently one daughter. He considered himself very fortunate to have at least one son who would be ready to lead the Empire should he meet his demise.
Michael Phelps is known as one of the greatest olympians of our time, earning a total of
The name of my President is Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America. Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. Bill was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before he was born. Bill’s birth name was William Jefferson Blythe III. His mother, Virginia Cassidy Blyth, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing and find a way to support herself and Bill Clinton, and he stayed with his grandparents in Hope. Eldridge and Edith Cassidy taught Bill strong values and beliefs teaching him that everyone is created equal no matter how different of skin or race they seemed. His mother returned in
The film Bill Cunningham New York, directed by Richard Press, is a documentary based on Bill Cunningham’s life. Bill was in his 80s when the film was created and even at such an age, you could truly see the passion he had for clothing. For countless years he has cycled around the streets of New York, dodging taxis and snapping the city’s latest trends.
the one he banished. He wanted to split his land amongst his 3 daughters, so he wanted them to