A studio portrait of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

ID: 220 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG3004.PH0-000010-a ~ Date: 1905 circa

This file appears in: Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition & Indian Congress of 1898

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This file appears in: Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition & Indian Congress of 1898

Buffalo Bill at the Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition & Indian Congress of 1898

By The Explore Nebraska History team

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody held the first official performance of his Wild West show just half a mile northeast of here on May 19, 1883. Eight thousand people attended the premiere at the Omaha…