"Cody (given name) Cody is a surname and unisex given name. It may also be spelled Coddy, Codee, Codi, Codie, Codey, Kodi, Kodie, Kody, Coty, or Koty. According to ""A Dictionary of First Names"", Cody is ""a transferred use of the Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Gaelic O'Cuidighthigh 'descendant of Cuidightheach' (originally a byname for a helpful person), or of Mac Oda 'son of Oda' (a personal name of uncertain origin)."" Its use in the United States is partially due to it being the surname of Buffalo Bill, a.k.a. William Frederick Cody. People with the given name Cody include:"
"sections of the entire trail was completed in 21 hours and 40 minutes, and 21 horses were required to complete this section. On one occasion when carrying mail he unintentionally ran into an Indian war party but managed to escape. Cody was present for many significant chapters in early western history, including the gold rush, the building of the railroads and cattle herding on the Great Plains. A career as a scout for the Army under General Phillip Sheridan following the Civil War earned him his nickname and established his notoriety as a frontiersman. Robert Haslam (Pony Bob) was among"
"William Boyd (actor) William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972) was an American film actor who is best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy. Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of a day laborer, Charles William Boyd, and his wife, the former Lida Wilkens (aka Lyda). Following his father's death, he moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman. In Hollywood, he found work as an extra in ""Why Change Your Wife?"" and other films. During"
"Cody of the Pony Express Cody of the Pony Express (1950) is the 42nd serial released by Columbia Pictures. Widely known as Buffalo Bill, William Cody helped define the image of the Old West and became one of the best-known celebrities of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As a teenager, he herded cattle and rode vast distances for the Pony Express in order to support the family. The plot centers on a young Cody joining forces with the Lieutenant Jim Archer to battle an outlaw gang secretly headed by Mortimer Black, an unscrupulous lawyer who is tempted by greed"
"Cowboys (TV series) Cowboys was a British television sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The show was created by Peter Learmouth who would go on to create Granada television sitcom ""Surgical Spirit"" and starred Lancastrian character-actor Roy Kinnear as Joe Jones, whose ""small building firm hardly seems to do anything right at all"". Co-starring David Kelly (Previously best known for playing one armed dishwasher Albert Riddle in ""Robin's Nest"", Michael O'Sullivan in ""Waking Ned"" and inept builder Mr. O'Reilly in the second episode of ""Fawlty Towers"") as 'Wobbly' Ron, Colin Welland (Well respected actor ""Z-Cars"""
"typically a portrayal of an Indian attack on a settler's cabin. Cody would ride in with an entourage of cowboys to defend a settler and his family. This finale was featured predominantly as early as 1886 but was not performed after 1907; it was used in 23 of 33 tours. Another celebrity appearing on the show was Calamity Jane, as a storyteller as of 1893. The show influenced many 20th-century portrayals of the West in cinema and literature. With his profits, Cody purchased a 4,000-acre (16-km²) ranch near North Platte, Nebraska, in 1886. The Scout's Rest Ranch included an eighteen-room"
"Chief Red Fox Chief Red Fox (Lakota: ""Tokála Luta,"" also known as Chief William Red Fox; June 11, 1870 – 1976) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux performer, actor, and Sioux Indian rights advocate, born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Dakota Territory. He was a nephew of famed Sioux war leader, Crazy Horse. In 1893, Colonel William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, visited Pine Ridge Reservation to recruit Native Americans as performers in his ""Wild West Show"" and asked Chief Red Fox to join the troupe of performers who were about to make an appearance at the"
"Chief Red Fox Chief Red Fox (Lakota: ""Tokála Luta,"" also known as Chief William Red Fox; June 11, 1870 – 1976) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux performer, actor, and Sioux Indian rights advocate, born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Dakota Territory. He was a nephew of famed Sioux war leader, Crazy Horse. In 1893, Colonel William Frederick Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, visited Pine Ridge Reservation to recruit Native Americans as performers in his ""Wild West Show"" and asked Chief Red Fox to join the troupe of performers who were about to make an appearance at the"
"to this poem appear on a plaque at the hospital where Boyd died. At his death in 1972, he was survived by his fifth wife, the actress Grace Bradley Boyd, who died on September 21, 2010 on her 97th birthday. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale). William Boyd (actor) William Lawrence Boyd (June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972) was an American film actor who is best known for portraying the cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy. Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio, and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was the son of a day laborer,"
"Wild Westing Wild Westing was the term used by Native Americans for their performing with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and similar shows. Between 1887 and World War I, over 1,000 Native Americans went ""Wild Westing."" Most were Oglala Lakota (""Oskate Wicasa"") from their reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, the first Lakota people to perform in these shows. During a time when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was intent on promoting Native assimilation, Col. William Frederick Cody (""Buffalo Bill"") used his influence with U.S. government officials to secure Native American performers for his Wild West. Col. Cody treated Native American"
"the end of the war in 1865. Later he served as a civilian scout for the US Army during the Indian Wars, receiving the Medal of Honor in 1872. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill's legend began to spread when he was only twenty-three. Shortly thereafter he started performing in shows that displayed cowboy themes and episodes from the frontier and Indian Wars. He founded ""Buffalo Bill's Wild West"" in 1883, taking his large company on tours in the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and continental Europe. Cody was"
"Lew Cody Lew Cody (born Louis Joseph Côté, February 22, 1884 – May 31, 1934) was an American stage and film actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age. He gained notoriety in the late 1910s for playing ""male vamps"" in films such as ""Don't Change Your Husband."" Cody was born to Joseph Côté and Elizabeth Côté, née Gifford. His father was French Canadian and his mother was a native of Maine. Cody and his younger brothers and sisters were born in Waterville, Maine. The family later moved to Berlin, New Hampshire where Cody's father owned"
"into a series of crimes leading to murder. ""Cody of the Pony Express"" was filmed on locations in Pioneertown, California. Cody of the Pony Express was the last serial with a boy in the title role (in this case as the young Buffalo Bill/William F. Cody). Cody of the Pony Express Cody of the Pony Express (1950) is the 42nd serial released by Columbia Pictures. Widely known as Buffalo Bill, William Cody helped define the image of the Old West and became one of the best-known celebrities of the 19th and early 20th centuries. As a teenager, he herded cattle"
"Cowboy G-Men Cowboy G-Men is an American Western series that aired in syndication from September 1952 to June 1953, for a total of thirty-nine episodes. Russell Hayden and former child actor Jackie Coogan (who would later perform as Uncle Fester on ""The Addams Family"") stars as Pat Gallagher and Stoney Crockett, respectively, a pair of government agents operating in the American West in the 1870s. Television actor Phil Arnold portrayed Zerbo, a sometimes associate of Gallagher and Crockett. Gallagher typically was undercover as a ranch hand, while Crockett took the role of a wrangler. ""Cowboy G-Men"" was based on a"
"Buffalo Bill William Frederick ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 14. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to"
"Buffalo Bill William Frederick ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American scout, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in his father's hometown in Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada, before the family returned to the Midwest and settled in the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill started working at the age of eleven, after his father's death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 14. During the American Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to"
"His perilous ride to tell the news of the great victory by Gen. George Crook against the camp of Chief American Horse at the Battle of Slim Buttes during the Great Sioux War made him a national celebrity. William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody (1846 – 1917) was a Pony Express rider, soldier, buffalo hunter and showman. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the U.S. Army as a scout. Cody's images and narratives of the American Wild West and Native Americans are nonpareil. During the Progressive Era, Buffalo Bill was one of the most popular"
"in 1959. Cody has three siblings, brothers Chuck and Casey Lambert, a successful racehorse jockey and sister Cheyann. Cody, Lane Frost, Ty Murray, Jim ""Razor"" Sharp, and Tuff Hedeman frequently rode the rodeo circuit together and were known as the ""Wolfpack"" during that time. Cody Lambert retired from bull riding at the end of the 1996 PBR World Finals. He is currently the Vice President and Livestock Director of the PBR. He lives in Bowie, Texas, on a ranch with his wife, Leanne, and their horses and dogs. In 2002, Cody was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame."
"Legendary Stardust Cowboy Norman Carl Odam (born September 5, 1947, in Lubbock, Texas), known professionally as the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, is an outsider performer who is considered one of the pioneers of the genre that came to be known as psychobilly in the 1960s. Odam was interested in space travel from early childhood, recalling that at kindergarten age he ""used to look at the moon and [tell himself] that some day man will go to the moon."" As a teenager he combined his interests in outer space and the American west to create the name ""Stardust Cowboy,"" adding the word"
"Floyd Westerman Floyd Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta i.e. ""Red Crow"" in Dakota (August 17, 1936 – December 13, 2007), was a Sioux musician, political activist, and actor. After establishing a career as a country music singer, later in his life, he became a leading actor depicting Native Americans in American films and television. He is sometimes credited simply as Floyd Westerman. He worked as a political activist for Native American causes. He was born Floyd Westerman on the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, home of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, a federally recognized tribe. It is one of the tribes"
"Fred Leedon Scott Fred Leedom Scott (February 14, 1902 - December 16, 1991) was an American actor best known as a singing cowboy star in Westerns during the 1930s and 1940s. Scott was born on February 14, 1902 in Fresno, California, United States. He took voice lessons as a child and started acting in community theater at sixteen followed by working with a traveling troupe. Scott's family moved to Llano del Rio. He found work as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and tried to parlay the skills into film roles on horseback. He spent three years at Pathé as"
"On June 22, 1908, Chief Iron Tail and ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody visited Du Bois, Pennsylvania with the Wild West Congress of Rough Riders. Twelve thousand people a day attended Cody's Wild West performances and 150 Oglalas were in town with 150 ponies. On this occasion, Chief Iron Tail presided over the adoption of Major Israel McCreight as an honorary Chief of the Oglala Lakota and named McCreight """"Čhaŋté Tȟáŋka"" (""Great Heart""). Chief Iron Tail performed the ceremony assembled at Buffalo Bill's tent and attended by Chief American Horse, Chief Whirlwind Horse, Chief Lone Bear and 100 Oglala Lakota members of"
"Riverside, California. Fred Leedon Scott Fred Leedom Scott (February 14, 1902 - December 16, 1991) was an American actor best known as a singing cowboy star in Westerns during the 1930s and 1940s. Scott was born on February 14, 1902 in Fresno, California, United States. He took voice lessons as a child and started acting in community theater at sixteen followed by working with a traveling troupe. Scott's family moved to Llano del Rio. He found work as a cowboy on a cattle ranch and tried to parlay the skills into film roles on horseback. He spent three years at"
"Arthur D. Kean Arthur David Kean (1882–1961), often known as ""Cowboy"" Kean, was a Canadian filmmaker, journalist, broadcaster, photographer, and horseman. Born in Emerson, Manitoba, Kean spent most of his first thirty years in the western United States and the interior of British Columbia. In 1897, his family relocated from Houston, Texas, to BC. In the East Kootenays, the Boundary Country, and north-eastern Washington state, Arthur worked as a farmer, cowboy, teamster, butcher, horseman and rodeo competitor. He competed in the Calgary Stampede (1912) and the Winnipeg Stampede (1913)—as well as the ""Real West"" event at Minoru Park in Richmond,"
"Joe Cody Joe Cody (1952–1989) was a Quarter Horse stallion famous for siring reining horses. Joe Cody was registered with number 42,543 in the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA). He was a 1952 sorrel colt, bred by Tom W. Cochran of Buckholts, Texas. He was registered in the ownership of Robert F. Roberts of Tyler, Texas. His sire was a product of the King Ranch linebreeding program, as he was a son of Wimpy P-1 out of a daughter of Old Sorrel. Joe's dam was a daughter of King P-234. Joe Cody earned an AQHA Champion and a Performance"
"show-biz creation who can no longer separate his invented image from reality. Altman's Cody is a loud-mouthed buffoon, a man who claims to be one with the Wild West but lives in luxury, play-acting daily in a western circus of his own making. Cody's long hair is a wig, he can't shoot straight any more or track an Indian, and all his staged battles with ruffians and savages are rigged in his favor. However, this does not keep him from acting as if his triumphs are real, or plaguing his patient entourage of yes-men with endless monologues about himself. Most"
"size. The bearded and rotund Cody, who estimated his own weight at 325 pounds (147.4 kg), vitalized the sports scene in Western Washington for more than 20 years. He was well known for his on-camera antics and his entertaining style of broadcasting. In the 1980s, KIRO TV ran a promotion called ""Watch Wayne Disappear."" The sportscaster was to lose 100 pounds over nine months and collect a $25,000 bonus. He was 25 pounds too heavy by deadline day. Cody is best known for being the sports anchor on KIRO (channel 7 / CBS) television and hosting KIRO (710AM) ""Sportsline"", a"
"King Kong Show"", and the Christmas special ""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"". Bernard Cowan Bernard Cowan (1922 – July 17, 1990) was a Canadian actor, announcer, voice actor, producer and writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was occasionally credited under his nickname, Bunny Cowan, such as on the production ""Willy McBean and His Magic Machine"". His name was pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable of ""Bernard"" and last name as ""cow in"". Cowan worked as the announcer on many CBC television series such as ""Front Page Challenge"" and ""Wayne and Shuster"". He also worked on such animated"
"Wayde Preston, while investigating a series of raids on the railroad, meets Cody, who offers to sell Colt .45 pistols. The episode falsely implies that Colt gave Cody his nickname of ""Buffalo Bill. From 1955-1958, Lloyd Corrigan played Buntline in six episodes of the ABC western series ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"", starring Hugh O'Brian. Burt Lancaster played Buntline (referred to as ""The Legend Maker"") in Robert Altman's 1976 film ""Buffalo Bill and the Indians"". Ned Buntline Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, either 1821 or 1823 – July 16 or 18, 1886), known by his pseudonym"
"Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the ""King of the Cowboys"", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of ""The Roy Rogers Show"". In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957. His"
"country: Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the ""King of the Cowboys"", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of ""The Roy Rogers Show"". In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957."
"22, 1908, ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody visited Du Bois with his Wild West Congress of Rough Riders. Twelve thousand people a day attended Cody's Wild West performances and 150 Oglalas were in town with 150 ponies. After knowing the Oglala Lakota for almost twenty years, McCreight was adopted as an honorary Chief and named ""Cante Tanke"" (""Great Heart"")(Čhaŋté Tȟáŋka). The ceremony was performed by Chief Iron Tail assembled at Buffalo Bill's tent and attended by Chief American Horse, Chief Whirlwind Horse, Chief Lone Bear and 100 Oglala Lakota members of the Wild West Congress of Rough Riders. The Oglala Lakota chiefs"
"Bernard Cowan Bernard Cowan (1922 – July 17, 1990) was a Canadian actor, announcer, voice actor, producer and writer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was occasionally credited under his nickname, Bunny Cowan, such as on the production ""Willy McBean and His Magic Machine"". His name was pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable of ""Bernard"" and last name as ""cow in"". Cowan worked as the announcer on many CBC television series such as ""Front Page Challenge"" and ""Wayne and Shuster"". He also worked on such animated series as ""Spider-Man"", ""The Marvel Super Heroes"", ""Rocket Robin Hood"", ""The"