>>>>That describes "Wild Bill Hitchcock". Buffalo Bill's rep comes mainly from Self-serving PR. Jim Bridger, on the other hand, was a true "mountian man".
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>>>Was Buffalo Bill the guy who eventually had a circus? If so, than he ran a show in my town about 1815 or so. World wasn't too big even then :)
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>>It was probably 1915, BB wasn't around yet in 1815.
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>I may look a little worn out, but I wasn't around for either. Mmmm... 1915 is out, WWI was around the place, though rather behind the Austrian lines at the time. Could be something like 1875? I don't remember (see first sentence).

BB had a European tour around 1895, as best I can recall. I think he went back a second time, hence the 1915 guess.