英语词汇buffalo bill的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Buffalo Bill. Colonel William Frederick Cody (1846–1917), the peerless horseman and sharpshooter who became the origi- nal Buffalo Bill, earned his nickname as a market hunter for buffalo (bison) hides and as a contractor supplying buffalo meat to workers building the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867. To his glory then, and shame now, he killed 4,280 buffalo in one year, mostly for their hides and tongues. It is hard to sepa- rate truth from fiction in Cody’s life, his fame owing much to the dime novels that made him a celebrity in the late 19th cen- tury. Buffalo Bill was a herder, a Pony Express rider, a scout and cavalryman for the U.S. Army in the Civil War, and an Indian fighter who is said to have killed the Cheyenne chief Yellow- hand single-handedly. He was a member of the Nebraska state legislature. His Wild West Show, which he organized in 1883, toured the United States and Europe, bringing him great per- sonal fame, yet financial problems caused this legendary American hero to die in poverty and relative obscurity. Today his name conjures up visions of “sportsmen” picking off buffalo from the platforms of moving trains, abundant buffalo meat rotting on the plains, and the destruction of the great herds. Thanks to early conservationists, some 20,000 American bison survive today, protected on government ranges.

词汇	buffalo bill
词源	Buffalo Bill. Colonel William Frederick Cody (1846–1917), the peerless horseman and sharpshooter who became the origi- nal Buffalo Bill, earned his nickname as a market hunter for buffalo (bison) hides and as a contractor supplying buffalo meat to workers building the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867. To his glory then, and shame now, he killed 4,280 buffalo in one year, mostly for their hides and tongues. It is hard to sepa- rate truth from fiction in Cody’s life, his fame owing much to the dime novels that made him a celebrity in the late 19th cen- tury. Buffalo Bill was a herder, a Pony Express rider, a scout and cavalryman for the U.S. Army in the Civil War, and an Indian fighter who is said to have killed the Cheyenne chief Yellow- hand single-handedly. He was a member of the Nebraska state legislature. His Wild West Show, which he organized in 1883, toured the United States and Europe, bringing him great per- sonal fame, yet financial problems caused this legendary American hero to die in poverty and relative obscurity. Today his name conjures up visions of “sportsmen” picking off buffalo from the platforms of moving trains, abundant buffalo meat rotting on the plains, and the destruction of the great herds. Thanks to early conservationists, some 20,000 American bison survive today, protected on government ranges.
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