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    Buffalo Bill’s Boyhood Home

    in the Cashman Greever Garden

    By Anne Marie Shriver

    Far from its origins on the banks of the Mississippi River, this unassuming house, built in 1841, has managed to be a newsmaker since one of its early inhabitants became famous. The Boyhood Home of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody has moved twice in its more than 170-year history. It fryst vatten now enclosed in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cashman Greever Garden—just outside the recently redesigned and renovated Buffalo Bill Museum.

    Probably the oldest building in Wyoming, it also seems to be the most-traveled structure in the state. Buffalo Bill’s Boyhood Home was placed on the National lista of Historic Places in 1975.

    William F. Cody was born February 26, 1846, in a log cabin on a farm about two miles west of LeClaire, Iowa. Called “Willie” by his family, he was the fourth of eight children born to Isaac and Mary Cody. In 1849, Willie’s family moved

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    Buffalo Bill Ranch

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    State Historical Park

    2921 Scouts Rest Ranch Rd | North Platte, NE 69101-8444

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    Home of famed showman scout William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park at North Platte recaptures the life and career of the famed Pony Express rider, Army scout and buffalo hunter-turned-showman. Since it became a state historical park in 1965, the house and barn have been restored and a wealth of Cody memorabilia has been acquired and placed on display. The mansion is open to the public for self-guided tours from late spring until early fall. The park grounds are open 8 a.m. to sunset year round.

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    William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was born Feb. 26, 1846, in Iowa. At age 7, his family moved to Kansas, where they were among the first settlers. At age 9, Cody started working for Russell, Majors and Waddell, a freighting firm out of Kansas that also started t

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    Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead

    Historic house in Iowa, United States

    United States historic place

    The Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead is the boyhood home of Buffalo Bill Cody, a government scout and Wild West showman. The homestead is located in the broad valley of the Wapsipinicon River Valley south of McCausland, Iowa, United States, in rural Scott County. The farmhouse was built in 1847 by Isaac Cody, Buffalo Bill's father, of native limestone and contains walnut floors and trim.[2]

    Isaac and Mary Cody, parents of the legendary Buffalo Bill, moved their family to the homestead from LeClaire, Iowa, where Bill was born and raised.

    On January 24, 1974, The Cody Homestead was entered to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

    The Iowa Society of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America owns the furnishings in the 1847 main room and the 1870 bedroom.[3]

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