For his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, Cody and his promoters frequently enhanced stories from his days in the Pony Express, Civil War and buffalo hunting, and some details of his scouting life with the U.S. Army aren’t entirely true. Entertainment was almost always paramount to truth with Cody. What is true is that Cody was awarded the Medal of Honor from a skirmish with Sioux Indians in Nebraska. Four years after his death in 1917, his family put the medal on display at the Buffalo Bill
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