6/6/88: Pictured on a 15¢ US definitive postage stamp in the Great Americans
series.
1872: Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role as a
scout for the United States Army (1868-1872).
Pictured (as Buffalo Bill) on one of a set of twenty 29¢ US
commemorative postage stamps celebrating Legends of the West, issued 18
October 1994. A set of twenty 19¢ US postcards with pictures of the
stamps was issued on the same date. Other persons honored in the two
sets are Annie Oakley, Bill Pickett,
William Tilghman, Jim Bridger, Wyatt Earp, John C. Fremont,
William Barclay 'Bat' Masterson, Chief Joseph, Wild Bill Hickok,
Kit Carson, Geronimo, Charles Goodnight, Nellie Cashman,
Sacajawea and Jim Beckwourth.
Before he went into show business, he had been a trapper, a
bullwhacker, a Colorado "Fifty-Niner", Pony Express rider (1860),
wagonmaster, stagecoach driver, Civil War soldier, and even hotel
manager.