Trivia

1896: Founded Cody, WY.

1872: Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role as a scout for the United States Army (1868-1872).

6/6/88: Pictured on a 15¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans series.

1883: Staged his first Wild West Show in Omaha, NE.

Pictured (as Buffalo Bill) on one of a set of twenty 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating Legends of the West, issued 18 October 1994. A set of twenty 19¢ US postcards with pictures of the stamps was issued on the same date. Other persons honored in the two sets are Annie Oakley, Bill Pickett, William Tilghman, Jim Bridger, Wyatt Earp, John C. Fremont, William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, Chief Joseph, Wild Bill Hickok, Kit Carson, Geronimo, Charles Goodnight, Nellie Cashman, Sacajawea and Jim Beckwourth.

Before he went into show business, he had been a trapper, a bullwhacker, a Colorado "Fifty-Niner", Pony Express rider (1860), wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, Civil War soldier, and even hotel manager.

By the time he died, he was almost broke.

Son of Isaac Cody and wife Mary Ann Bonsell Laycock, daughter of Samuel Laycock and wife Hannah Taylor and, by her, a distant relative of both Richard Nixon and Al Gore.

Supported Indian and women's rights; he was also a conservationist.

Adopted son is Ranger Bill Miller.

1958: Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

First cousin five times removed of Dawn Cody.

Was mentioned in an Allan Sherman song entitled "Oh Boy" as "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

Inducted into the Wyoming Outdoor Hall of Fame in 2012.

Once worked as a rider for the Pony Express mail service.