[Photograph] Of all the names from this country's frontier past, few are more familiar than that of "Buffalo Bill" Cody. By the early 1870s, he had earned a reputation as an uncommonly skilled buffalo hunter and one of the army's most daring western scouts.

In 1883 Cody began touring with his Wild West Show, an extravaganza that combined sharpshooting and riding exhibitions with reenactments of colorful moments in the West's history.

This photograph dates from 1887, the year that Buffalo Bill first took his Wild West Show to Great Britain.

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery

Photograph of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), 1887, by an unidentified photographer, Woodburytype

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