But just how accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show? The buffalo were real, to begin with. So was Bill Cody. He had grown up in Kansas during the period of intensive Western migration ...

So tell us about Buffalo Bill Cody. How did he come into the Great Plains and earn his fame, first of all, as a hunter and scout? Well, when Bill was still small, they lived in Iowa. That's where ...

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