Frontiersman and entertainer. By the age of fifteen Cody had already been a horse wrangler, pony express rider, and unsuccessful prospector. He became a scout for the Union army and after the war took a job for a company that supplied meat for railroad construction crews, killing 4280 buffalo during 1867–1868. Cody allegedly claimed the “First Scalp for Custer” when he and his supporters reported that he had vanquished Cheyenne headsman Yellow Hair in a duel on War bonnet Creek, July 17, 1876. Dubbed “Buffalo Bill” by writer Ned Buntline, Cody organized his famous Wild West Show in 1883 and toured with it with great success for many years. AQS on an off-white 4.5 x 3.25 card, “True to friend & foe, W. F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill,’” dated 1894. In very fine condition. In very fine condition. R&R COA.
