At Portsmouth, Virginia on November 11, 1916

William F. Cody, asso?ci?ated with a West?ern exhi?bi?tion titled "Buf?falo Bill (Himelf) and the 101 Ranch Wild West Com?bined," passed by this spot on a route that would take the parade to the interec?tion of Washington and Lin?coln Streets, site of the "Grand Finale."

The suc?cess enjoyed by the Fourth of July cel?e?bra?tion known as "The Old Glory Blowout" at North Platte, Nebraska, on July 4, 1882, con?vinced William F. Cody to orga?nize "Buf?falo Bill's Wild West" and tour the United States and parts of Europe. Buf?falo Bill was and is a sym?bol of a glam?orous and col?or?ful era in United States history.

He lit?er?ally crated and shipped sam?ples of the "Wild West" to cen?ters of pop?u?la?tion around the world, giving mil?lions of Amer?i?cans and Euro?peans the opportunity to view first hand a part of Amer?i?can history that had cap?tured the pop?u?lar imagination.

Ded?i?cated to William F. Cody, an illus?tri?ous Amer?i?can, remem?bered as the "Father of Rodeo," "The First Interna?tional Star," and "America's Good?will Ambassador-at-Large"

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