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freshest streaming service. By 1860, you, By 1868, Bill Cody was earning the staggering sum of up to $100 a day to kill

bison and bring the meat to the railroad workers who were laying track for the Kansas

Pacific Railroad.

It was more money than he had ever earned, and newspapers across the West started reporting

stories of the incredible hunting prowess of 22-year-old Bill

Cody. He was so good at his job that the railroad workers dreamed up a little song in his

honor, which they sang while they worked. In the song they called the young hunter Buffalo Bill, a nickname that was somewhat funny at the time, but which stuck with Bill for the rest of his life and will likely last for eternity.

He was making enough money to employ a full-time butcher and a camp staff to help him process

the meat, cure the hides, and transport hundreds of tons of buffalo.

Bill had tried his hand at all kinds of jobs, hoping to make enough money to settle down

with his family, and his prospects had never seemed better.

And then things fell apart.

The railroad reached Sheridan, Kansas, a tiny speck of a place in the northwest corner of the state, and the Kansas Pacific informed

Bill that their coffers were empty and his services were no longer required.

His wife, who didn't want to be married to a hunter anyway, had taken their daughter and moved back

to St. Louis to be with her family.

She agreed to meet him in Leavenworth, Kansas, but the couple had an awful fight.

Bill said later, I didn't think that we would ever have another meeting.

We had kind of mutually agreed that we were not suited to each other. She was as glad to go back to her home as I

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