Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild WestArmy scout, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and impresario of the world renowned Wild West Show, William F. Buffalo Bill Cody lived the real American West and also helped create the West of the imagination. Born in 1846, he took part in the great westward migration, hunted the buffalo, and made friends among the Plains Indians, who gave him the name Pahaska (long hair). But as the frontier closed and his role in winning the West passed into legend,