He was known as Buffalo Bill.
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William Frederic Cody was born in Iowa in 1846. His nickname was Buffalo Bill. He earned this nickname after the Civil War, when his job was to provide buffalo meat to the workers of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
As far as I know, William had no nickname. His sister did.
He didn't have a nickname, he was from Scotland.
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It was never his nickname, it was devised for the film of the same name.