Buffalo Bill- entertainer, and miner, of the Old West
Buffalo Bill, William F. Cody, played a major role in later 19th and early 20th Century entertainment.
Cody, one of the first great American entertainers, took his Wild West Show around the world to give a glimpse into a passing, but historic, part of American western culture.
Buffalo Bill in Arizona
Buffalo Bill Cody played a part in the development of pioneering Arizona. He owned mines north of Tucson an was a resident of Oracle, AZ.
Read and download a book by Buffalo Bill
Download free public domain books on W.F. Cody:
Memories of Buffalo Bill (1919). Author: Cody, Louisa (Frederici) Mrs; Cooper, Courtney Ryley, 1886-1940, joint author. Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W.F. Cody) is a genealogical sketch compiled in 1897. The book is in the public domain and free to own a copy from Project Guttenberg electronic works.
Photo above:William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Free Buffalo Bill movie with Roy Rogers
In the 1940 classic publoc domain Western film, "Young Buffalo Bill," Bill Cody (Roy Rogers) and friend Gabby Whitaker (George Hayes) are called on by the US Army to survey the New Mexico territory during the 1860s.
"According to Edison film historian C. Musser, this film and others shot on the same day featured Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and constitutes the American Indian's first appearance before a motion picture camera." - Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Cody Stone is mined from the Catalina Mountains in Southern Arizona, USA- the same mountains mined by Buffalo Bill Cody. Designed as jewelry grade gold and silver in quartz, Codystone specimens and hand made items are on display at the Oracle Inn Steakhouse & Saloon in Oracle, Arizona. Call Flint at 520-289-4566 or email finder@emol.org.
"Ballads of the Santa Catalina Mountains" CD
Listen to songs and ballads on CD about the Iron Door Mine, the Santa Catalina Mountains, the Old West and about Arizona historian Flint Carter. $9.95. Call 520-289-4566 for more information and to purchase copies.
Buffalo Bill, William F. Cody, played a major role in later 19th and early 20th Century entertainment.
