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8 de sept. de 2015 · Tuesday, September 8, 2015. Buffalo Bill Cody was just 14 years old, so the story goes, when he made his world-famous ride for the Pony Express. Leaving Red Buttes on the North Platte River near present-day Casper, Wyo., he galloped 76 miles west to Three Crossings on the Sweetwater River.
22 de jun. de 2018 · The Pony Express operated for less than two years, but its legend—burnished by Buffalo Bill Cody—lives on. By Simon Worrall. June 22, 2018. • 12 min read.
10 de ene. de 2017 · HISTORY. Murder, Marriage and the Pony Express: Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Buffalo Bill. His adventures were sensationalized in print and the Wild West show, but reality was more...
Probably more than any other rider in the Pony Express, William Cody (better known as Buffalo Bill) epitomizes the legend and the folklore, be it fact or fiction, of the Pony Express.
Buffalo Bill (born February 26, 1846, Scott county, Iowa, U.S.—died January 10, 1917, Denver, Colorado) was an American buffalo hunter, U.S. Army scout, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, actor, and impresario who dramatized the facts and flavor of the American West through fiction and melodrama.
Buffalo Bill started working at the age of 11, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the U.S. Army during the Indian Wars.
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was born in LeClaire, Iowa, in 1846. While he was still a child, his family moved to Leavenworth, Kansas. Cody left home at the young age of eleven to herd cattle and work as a driver on a wagon train, crossing the Great Plains several times. He went on to fur trapping and gold mining, then joined an early version of the Pony Express in 1860. After the Civil ...
