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43 unusual facts about William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn


American Horse

Blue Horse, American Horse, Three Bears and Red Shirt all served as U.S. Army Indian Scouts with U.S. 4th Cavalry Regiment; were first Oglala Lakota to send their children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a formal education; all led Lakota delegations to Washington, D.C.; and went Wild Westing with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.

The Wagluhe were the first Oglala Lakota to send their children to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a formal education, and the first to go Wild Westing with Col. "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his Wild West.

Bailey Yard

Buffalo Bill located Scouts Rest Ranch at North Platte because it allowed him to move his Wild West Show by train or by wagon across the United States relatively quickly.

Beth Sullivan

Beth Sullivan (born August 29, 1949 in Burbank, California) is an American film and television writer and producer, best known as the creator of the long-running CBS series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Bighorn Basin

Around the turn of the 20th century the Bighorn Basin was settled by ranchers such as William "Buffalo Bill" Cody who founded the town of Cody and owned a great deal of land surrounding the Shoshone River.

Bob Quinn

Robert E. Quinn (1894–1975), American politician from Rhode Island

Robert H. Quinn (born 1928), American politician from Massachusetts, active 1950s-1980s

Boy's Friend

Several Amalgamated Press characters such as Sexton Blake, Nelson Lee, Jack, Sam & Pete and Buffalo Bill appeared, in either serials or complete stories.

Bubble O' Bill

The name "Bubble O' Bill" is a pun which refers to the US Old West figure, Buffalo Bill, and the bubblegum which accompanies the ice cream.

Bufalo Bill

The title is an intentional misspelling of Buffalo Bill's name: buffalo is often rendered in Italian as "bufalo", although specifically defining a different animal in that language.

Buffalo Bill Dam

It is named after the famous Wild West figure William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who founded the nearby town of Cody and owned much of the land now covered by the reservoir formed by its construction.

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

Buffalo Bill is sent west by President Grant to settle an Indian uprising started by Yellow Hand and supported by gun smugglers.

Cambodian genocide

In 1973 Kenneth M. Quinn, serving with the U.S. embassy had raised concerns over the atrocities being carried out.

Camp Cody

The camp was renamed again shortly after the death of the famous buffalo hunter and showman, William F. Cody (1846–1917), better known as "Buffalo Bill Cody."

Clever, Missouri

A series of Chautauqua events over the course of several summers entertained the residents, as did famed showman and Wild West figure WIlliam "Buffalo Bill" Cody in 1913.

Cricothyrotomy

On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; Sully, the white man raised by Indians who is her lover and companion, performs the procedure on one of Dr. Quinn's boys using a bird's feather (the base where it is hollow).

Erika Flores

Erika Flores (born November 2, 1979 in Grass Valley, California) is an American actress and former child actress, known for her role as the first Colleen Cooper in the Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman TV series.

Frank Lentini

His career spanned over forty years and he worked with every major circus and sideshow including Barnum and Bailey and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Goofs and Saddles

The cultural references are to, respectively, American Old West figures Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock, and Just Plain Bill, the title of a long-running radio program of the era.

I. T. Quinn

Quinn worked with the Alabama Extension Service in Montgomery County, Alabama from 1915 through 1918, supervised the Division of Fertilizers of the Alabama State Department of Agriculture from 1919 to 1920, and directed county agents in northern Alabama for the United States Department of Agriculture from 1921 to 1922.

James L. Quinn

During his tenure, the magazine's circulation never sold as well as he'd hoped, even with the assistance of Larry Shaw and a short tenure by Damon Knight as editor of the magazine.

John M. J. Quinn

John M. J. Quinn (1886–1955) was a Monsignor and from 1951 to 1955 head of St. Francis Xavier's Church in the Bronx, New York, and also head of the Catholic War Veterans.

John M. Quinn

He also served as the archdiocesan director for justice and peace and for education (1990–2003), and Cardinal Adam Maida's delegate to his alma mater of Sacred Heart Seminary (where he was an adjunct member of the faculty).

Joseph F. Quinn

He lived in Salem and was the son of an immigrant from the days of the potato famine.

He attended University of Ottawa in Canada due to discrimination against the Irish in the U.S. at the time, graduating in 1881, and went on to earn his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1884.

Kami Asgar

During a career that spans nearly 20 years, he has been nominated for an Emmy award for sound editing on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman in 1996 and Golden Reel Awards in 2005 for The Passion of the Christ and 2007 for Apocalypto.

Kenneth Edward Untener

His funeral mass was celebrated in Saginaw and included a homily by Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, California.

Kevin M. Quinn

He would lead the Navy's logistics efforts to support Asia in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Lanesboro, Minnesota

Near summer's end, the popular "Buffalo Bill Days" celebrates one of Lanesboro's famous frequent visitors, Buffalo Bill.

Larry Sellers

He commonly portrays Native American characters such as his role on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Cloud Dancing and The Naked Indian spirit from Wayne's World 2.

Nelson P. Boyer Barn

It was known at the turn of the 20th century as the "Showplace of Chester County," and was used by Buffalo Bill as winter quarters and practice.

Palmengarten

One colorful visit was from the American entertainer Buffalo Bill who brought his Western show in 1890.

Peter A. Quinn

He was elected as a Democrat to the 79th United States Congress, holding office from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1947.

Peter J. Quinn

He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument, a standard format for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).

Plant Field

In 1912, "Buffalo Bill" Cody performed on the field with hundreds of American Indians who traveled with him as part of his show.

Seán F. Quinn

On 22 April 1923, he was at a safe house in Castlebellingham along with his brothers Padraig Quinn (IRA Quartermaster General) and Malachi (father of Ruairi Quinn Labour TD).

Stevens Arms

Two well known examples of the Stevens-Lord No. 36 were custom ordered by Buffalo Bill, serial no. 29 for himself and serial no. 32 as a gift for Ben Thompson.

T. J. Quinn

Quinn contributes to several ESPN programs including SportsCenter and Outside the Lines.

The Dutchman's Secret

The story begins approximately fifteen minutes after the end of The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff, where Scrooge McDuck is in his Money Bin together with Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey and Louie, having just finished telling a story about his encounter with famous American Old West legends such as the Dalton Gang, Phineas T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and Geronimo.

Tunbridge Wells West railway station

In 1903 Buffalo Bill caused a storm when the special train carrying his famous show arrived at Tunbridge Wells West for a performance.

West Brompton

They were touring Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at the time of their deaths in 1887.

Western fiction

Many of these novels were fictionalized stories based on actual people: Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James, Wyatt Earp (who was still alive at the time) and Billy the Kid.

Weston, Missouri

William Buffalo Bill Cody was at one time a resident of Weston, and the town was a major "jumping off" point for the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush.


Birmingham Metropolitan College

The buildings were mostly constructed in the 1950s as purpose-built structure although the college also obtained the Grade II* listed Moat House which was built in the 17th century by Sir William Wilson.

Deborah Dobson

She has done hair styling for Dangerous Women, Kelly Kelly, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, General Hospital, So Little Time, "Undeclared, The Practice, and Eli Stone She is alternatively credited as Deborah Holmes Dobson and Deborah Dobson.

Diego Masson

His activities as a composer and arranger were mainly from the early part of his career and included film scores composed for Équivoque 1900 (1966), and two Louis Malle projects, the "William Wilson" segment of the Edgar Allan Poe triptych Histoires extraordinaires (1968), and Black Moon (1975), for which he adapted music by Wagner.

Erik Ehn

He recently collaborated with Janie Geiser on Invisible Glass inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "William Wilson."

Honey Craven

Craven was inducted into the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame in 1999, having his name etched in the rafters along with other "Garden Greats" from Buffalo Bill to Muhammad Ali to The Rolling Stones.

Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse

Key figures whose biographies were explored in the series included Paul Revere, Buffalo Bill, and Daniel Boone, among many others, with Max dubiously claiming to have helped all of them over the course of his very long life.

Oglala Lakota

In 1902, with his wife Nellie and their children, Standing Bear joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and traveled through England for eleven months.

Pike's Opera House

The new management lowered the price of admission and catered to the popular tastes of New York's "west side": "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (in blackface) and Buffalo Bill were among the first season's attractions; theatrical productions were accompanied by "specialty acts".

Ralph Hubbard

As a child he attended Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and as a teenager on a trip to the Western United States he visited the Battle of the Little Big Horn site on one of his summer trips to his uncle’s ranch in Medora.

Sally Quinn

Sally Quinn was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Lt. General William Wilson "Buffalo Bill" Quinn (November 1, 1907 – September 11, 2000) and his wife, Sara Bette Williams, (January 27, 1918 – September 26, 2004).

The Ghost Shirt

In 1891 the shirt was brought to Glasgow, and sold to Kelvingrove Museum by George C. Crager, a member of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Traveling Show.

The Slap Maxwell Story

The show was created by Jay Tarses, who in 1983 was co-creator of Buffalo Bill, an NBC sitcom in which Coleman starred as a similarly off-putting character, the host of a TV talk show.

Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan

Vision 2020 the New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan was introduced in March 2011 by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and the Director of the New York City Department of City Planning, Amanda Burden, this plan provides a framework for the next ten years of waterfront development in New York City.