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Needs citations, but the detail is worthy of a B-rating. May not really need an categorized infobox. Buffalo Bill is one of a kind.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article reads like a not-particularly-organized collection of disparate stand-alone works, repeating itself and introducing concepts already introduced. See, for example, the treatment(s) of Cody, Wyoming, which bounce all around.

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According to his biography (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/0/0/3/10030/10030-8.txt) He was born 1845 not 1846 -- --Harno 23:51, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC). check

wtf?

My great-great-great-great uncle Buffalo Bill didn't claim to have scalped a Cheyenne warrior,he Shot and Scalped the Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hair (mistaken as Yellow Hand)in a duel, but when i changed on his page it reverted as vandalism. WTF? Read any book on him people!

yeah right.

you are wrong zoe, he was born in 1846 not 1845. look at another dictionary. a real book, and not a website, ok?

Buffalo Bill's only known biography that he wrote does say that he was born in 1845. Who are you going to believe, a text book that was so wrong that it could have said It wasn't Custer's fault for his death, or the man himself who this page is about? Bcody 13:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sources section

What's that 8 supposed to be? --71.112.94.131 00:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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removed from article "Bizarrely, evidence suggests that Buffalo Bill was the official guest at the opening of a shooting club in Urmston in the United Kingdom. The club has since been demolished to make way for housing." whats bizzare about it...its seems like a non-sequitor

Wild Bill couldn't have performed in the Wild West

The dates don't work. Buffalo Bill launched his Wild West in 1883, according to this article, and Wild Bill was shot dead in 1876.

He was never in the Wild West Show. Wild Bill did perform in plays with Buffalo Bill. Wild Bill was known to play pranks on the actors, and after one night Buffalo Bill told him that he had to stop or he would be kicked out. Wild Bill left in the middle of the show. A few days later Buffalo Bill found Wild Bill in a bar and Wild Bill apologized. Wild Bill then went out west where he was shot in 1876. Bcody 13:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Relitave

This dude's related to me! Seriously. He's dead, I know. But he was my relitave. I swear. —The Thing (Talk) (Stuff I did) 15:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment

I have a very interesting newspaper article sitting here withme. I learned a few weeks ago that Buffalo Bill served along side my great-great-grandfather in the 7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment and I have a very very old newspaper article from when he visited my great-great-grandfather... Any suggestions on how to / if to add it. I also have some other information I might add.--Azslande 08:17, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Quite Interesting...

I have no source available, but on a British programme QI, it announced evidence that actually, Buffalo Bill slayed bison, not buffalo, due to the obvious problem that there were no buffalo in North America at the time! Unfortunately, nobody could tell the difference. This is all well and good, but without a source, I ought not put it on the page, unless it were in a rumoured section. Unless anybody else can find out the same thing? Alex Holowczak 18:26, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's well known that the American bison was erroneously called the "buffalo" in America. Wahkeenah 21:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That's okay then! Alex Holowczak 18:26, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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"Buffalo Bill" Eve - Interesting if true

The long digression at the end of the article about William Eve, another "Buffalo Bill," belongs in its own article, not in the article on Buffalo Bill Cody. I would move it myself, but there are no sources cited, so I don't know if it is factual or not. Anyone know about Buffalo Bill Eve? Plazak 13:50, 4 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced Story

Moved from the main article - might qualify if it is cleaned up and sourced - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 23:45, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

At another time a man came to the Cody home with a gun and knife and demanded that Mrs. Cody fix him dinner. As he was waiting he told the poor woman that he had come to kill that "damn abolitionist husband of yours" and where was he? Mrs. Cody said he was not at home and she was not likely to see him soon. Waiting for his meal he sat and shapen a knife while drinking whiskey. Mary Cody took William and his sister Julia aside. Isaac Cody was up stairs sick in bed. She told the two children William 8 years old and his sister Julia about 10 years old to get a gun and an ax. If the man started up the stairs William was to kill him with the gun and if he missed Julia was to get him with the ax. The two young children waited on the stair. The Man at his dinner and after falling asleep he woke and left, stealing the Cody's horses as he went.

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It was a myth that Sitting Bull ever came to England. Buffalo Bill in Liverpool. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CosmicPenguin (talk • contribs) 21:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Buffalo/Bison Hunting

There seems to be no mention of his hunting here. I thought that the huge number of bovines he slew was what he was best known for. Epeeist smudge 08:29, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that too. He slayed huge numbers of buffalo, and yet there is no mention of this here. Shouldn't we look at both the positive and negative side of this man? 81.151.74.90 (talk) 22:09, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reference to living relatives

Removed "Currently his descendants Sean Soltys and Benjamin White attend Southington High School in Southington, CT", an utterly unimportant detail, from the Legacy section. Sean Lindsay (talk) 23:51, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]