Cody scott lancaster biography of william
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By: Cody, William J.
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Publication info: [Ottawa], Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, 1989
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By: Cody, William J. - Canada. Department of Agriculture. Research Branch.
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Publication info: Ottawa, Research Branch, Dept. of Agriculture, 1978
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By: Cody, William J. - Canada. Agriculture Canada. Research Branch - Service canadien des parcs.
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Publication info: [Ottawa], Direction générale de la recherche, Agriculture Canada, 1988
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By: Cody, William J. - Canada. Agriculture Canada. Research Branch
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Publication info: [Ottawa], Direction de la recherche, Agricul
- Existence: 26 February 1846 - 10 January 1917
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Beverly "Bev" Cody
Beverly "Bev" Cody
Lancaster - Beverly (Bev) Cody passed away on February 14, 2022 at home. She was born on November 12, 1941, to parents, Wilbert and Mary Ellen Pyles. Bev graduated from Lancaster High School in 1959. After pursuing many different career paths, Bev retired as a Medicare Hearing Officer after 34 years of service, which included Nationwide Insurance, Palmetto GBA, and Q2A.
Bev is preceded in death by her husband of 42 years, William E. Cody, Sr.; parents; step mother, Bonita Pyles; brother and sister-in-law, Earl (Butch) and Reba Pyles; sister, Judy Fosnaugh; and step-sister, Deborah Hoover.
Bev is survived by her sister, Nancy (John) Kruse, Thornville, Oh.; step-brother, Richard (Maureen) Hoover, Newton, Pa.; nieces, Wendy (Scott) Ault, Bremen, Oh., Sherry (Bill) McGinn, Panama City Beach, Fl., Jennifer Kruse, Thornville, Oh., Katie (Zack) VanHorn, Bremen, Oh., Victoria Hoover, St. Petersburg, Fl, Tamara Barnes, Joliet, III; nephews,
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Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917
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William F. Cody was one of the greatest showmen of the nineteenth century. He pioneered the Wild West Show as a form eller gestalt of popular entertainment on an international scale, laid the foundations for the birth of rodeo, and successfully marketed the myth of the American frontier.
Cody's early life embodies and symbolises the history of the American West. At the age of fifteen he worked as a rider for the Pony Express and in 1864 enlisted in the Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. He was then employed as a scout for General William Sherman before working under contract for the Kansas Pacific Railroad as a buffalo hunter in 1867-68. According to his autobiography in the two years that he worked for the company he killed 4,280 buffaloes and acquired the name Buffalo Bill. In 1868 he returned to the U.S. Army as chief of the Scouts for the Fifth Cavalry.
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