What I find most fascinating about William F. Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, is how he bounced between authentic frontiersman and a showman with an exaggerated version of his own personal history.
![Bill on horse](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/884ae4_5ff066fa88df43a48f01a9c328a5849e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_147,h_212,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,blur_2,enc_auto/884ae4_5ff066fa88df43a48f01a9c328a5849e~mv2.jpg)
I tried to capture some of that contrast in the history column I wrote for The Daily Sentinel this week.
Here’s the link to the column: