There was another guy who wanted to be known as "Buffalo Bill." The way they settled it was pretty deadly.

There was another guy who wanted to be known as "Buffalo Bill." The way they settled it was pretty deadly.

William Frederick Cody (a.k.a. Buffalo Bill) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman.

Cody had documented serviceas a soldier during the Civil War and as Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry during the Plains Wars.

He claimed to have had many jobs, including as a trapper, bullwhacker, "Fifty-Niner" in Colorado, a Pony Express rider in 1860, wagon master, stagecoach driver, and a hotel manager, but historians have had difficulty documenting them, and he may have fabricated some for publicity.

He got his nickname after the American Civil War when he had a contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with buffalo meat. Cody is purported to have killed 4,282 American bison in eighteen months.

Cody and William Comstock competed in a buffalo-shooting match over the exclusive right to use the name, which Cody won by killing 68 bison to Comstock's 48.

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