Buffalo Bill – The Scout
Buffalo Bill – The Scout is a bronze statue of a mounted rider outside the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, United States, that was placed in 1924 to commemorate the town's most famous resident and de facto founder, Buffalo Bill Cody.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Work of art
- Artwork_type: statue
- Description: statue in Cody, Wyoming, United States
- Also known as: “Buffalo Bill - The Scout” and “The Scout”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Buffalo Bill Center of the West and Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Museum
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, formerly known as the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, is a complex of five museums and a research library featuring art and artifacts of the American West located in Cody, Wyoming. Buffalo Bill Center of the West is situated 530 feet southeast of Buffalo Bill – The Scout.
Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home was built by Isaac Cody, the father of Buffalo Bill Cody in 1841 at LeClaire, Iowa. The house was purchased as a tourist attraction by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and was moved to Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill's adopted hometown, in 1933. Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home is situated 760 feet southeast of Buffalo Bill – The Scout.
Stock Center
Tourism office
Photo: 25or6to4, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Stock Center in Cody, Wyoming, United States, was built in 1927 as the original home of the Buffalo Bill Museum, serving in that purpose until the museum was relocated to a new complex across the street in 1969. Stock Center is situated 1,200 feet east of Buffalo Bill – The Scout.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cody.
Cody
Cody is in Northwest Wyoming, close to the east side Yellowstone National Park. Unlike Jackson, with its pet spas and high-end shopping, Cody is more authentically cowboy.
Buffalo Bill – The Scout
- Categories: sculpture, heritage site, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Park, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.52606° or 44° 31′ 34″ northLongitude
-109.07501° or 109° 4′ 30″ westInception
1924Open location code
85PGGWGF+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3223493404OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q7762661
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In Other Languages
“Buffalo Bill – The Scout” goes by many names.
- French: “Buffalo Bill – The Scout”
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