1881 Morgan Dollat And Buffalo Bill Cody

In North Platte NE is a State Park that was the home of Buffalo Bill Cody, famous as a hunter and for his Wild West Shows. I live in NE and recently visited the house again. Took a few pics. Most of the furnishings belonged to the Cody family. I noticed a 1881 Morgan dollar that Cody had given to one of his female performers, Della Ferrell (married name Baker), a horse rider, apparently did acrobatic rides on her horse. The dollar is in rather poor shape but still cool IMO. Sharpshooter Annie Oakley also toured with the Wild West Show.

An interesting pic I saw at the Trading Post store in North Platte is of Cody, Grand Duke of Russia and Custer on a buffalo hunt in 1872. Custer died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Cody eventually sold the NE ranch, had bought land in Wyoming near Cody Wyoming. There is a good Buffalo Bill museum there. He died in 1917 in Colorado, is buried near Golden.

The Buffalo, more correctly called Bison, almost became extinct. A small herd was preserved. There are about 5,900 in Yellowstone, others on ranches, zoos.