Bill Cody; Last Surviving Grandchild of Buffalo Bill

Bill Cody, 79, the last surviving grandchild of famed frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody. Cody, who had his name legally changed from Bill Garlow in the 1960s, did nationwide promotions as Buffalo Bill, including wearing the mustache, goatee and buckskins that were his grandfather’s trademarks. Buffalo Bill Cody was known in the late 1800s mainly for his connections with the Indian wars, the Pony Express and his Wild West Show, which traveled the globe to re-enact the settlement of the West. “When I was born, granddad was one of the most famous men in the world,” the grandson said in 1989. “Even today, I go to Singapore, Greece, Europe--hell, even Sri Lanka--and the locals know about the West because of Buffalo Bill.” On Sept. 18 in Cody, Wyo., of undisclosed causes.