It’s a special honor when the USPS releases a commemorative postage stamp celebrating your life. Over the years, there have been only a handful of good folks with strong Iowa connections who have shared in that honor.
In 1988 – Iowa’s own Wild West showman – Buffalo Bill Cody.
William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody was an American soldier, a bison hunter, and showman. He was born on February 26, 1846, on a farm outside Le Claire, Iowa, but lived for several years in his father’s hometown of Toronto, Canada before the family returned to the Midwest, settling in the Kansas Territory. Cody started working at the age of eleven, after his father’s death, and became a rider for the Pony Express at age 15. During the Civil War, he served the Union from 1863 to the end of the war in 1865.
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