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Colonel Cody was born in Scott County, Iowa, near Le Claire andPlaque at Le Claire, IA lived in the town for awhile. The Buffalo Bill Museum there has numerous items from his life on display.

The actual homes in which he was born and had lived while in Le Claire moved to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The house his family is reported to have lived in when Bill was very young is just a few miles to the west.

The Cody homestead is located just outside Long Grove, Iowa. The two-story house, built in 1847 by Issac Cody, Bill's father, has been beautifully maintained by a historical society. The information on the site says that Bill Cody he lived Early Cody homsteadthere between two and nine years of age. The family reportedly lived here until 1854 when it went for a time to Missouri and then on to homestead in Kansas. (Paul Fees, Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, says he doubts the family ever lived there even though Isaac may have built the structure.)



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