Buffalo Bill Goosed the World’s Fair

Buffalo Bill Cody was one of a handful of civilian scouts ever awarded the Medal of Honor for courage in battle. Yet his mettle would be tested many years later by a man who drafted blueprints and knew nothing of warfare on the Western plains. Cody often thought it was the finest performance of his life. Daniel H. Burnham, the foremost architect in Chicago, Illinois, was appointed the director of works for the 1893 world’s fair. The official name of the fair, the World’s Columbian Exp