Buffalo Bill was one of the most interesting figures of the old west, and the best known spokesman of the new west. Buffalo Bill was born in 1846 and his real name was William Frederick Cody. Cody was many things. He was a trapper, bullwhacker, Colorado “Fifty-Niner”, Pony Express rider, Civil War soldier, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, and even a manager of a hotel. He changed his name to Buffalo Bill sometime in his early twenties for …showed first 75 words of 676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 676 total…of his money in ranching, irrigation, town building, mining, and publishing. Not too many of these investments benefited him, and as a result of this poor investing, he died almost broke. Buffalo Bill loved the west with all his heart. The west was his territory. He described the west as “with its cities, drawing upon the mountains for the water to make it fertile, and upon the whole world for men to make it rich”.