Buffalo Bill

Biography

William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody parlayed his experience as a scout and frontier hunter into the Wild West show, which dramatized frontier life for audiences across America and Europe and left an indelible imprint on the nation's imagination.

His traveling spectacle brought together sharpshooters, riders, and Native American performers at a time when the story of the American West was being shaped, and he is remembered in the peaceful setting of Lookout Mountain.