Buffalo Bill Cody Mural

Mural and Statue Safari Stop #10

This mural features oval insets of local figures on either side of a man standing in the middle of Shawnee Street in 1870s downtown Leavenworth. A banner reads "First City" over the central figure, proclaiming Leavenworth's status as the first organized city in Kansas. The central figure is Buffalo Bill Cody, who called Leavenworth home. His family moved to Leavenworth when he was a little boy. Cody left in 1858 at age 12  to work on the wagon trains that operated across the Great Plains. 

The insets in the mural show local landmarks and notable people.

Upper left, larger inset: The Great Western Stove Company.

Upper left, portrait inset: Wild West legend Wild Bill Hickok, who lived in 1850s Leavenworth.

Upper right, large inset: Leavenworth Union Depot near the Missouri River.

Upper right, portrait inset: A young man wearing the blue U.S. Army uniform of a Buffalo Soldier; one unit, the 10th Cavalry, was formed at Fort Leavenworth in 1866.

Center Cityscape: Shawnee Street, Leavenworth's Main Street, featuring Leavenworth City Hall and a covered wagon (attesting to Leavenworth's place on the route of the Old Military Road, now called the Frontier Military Historic Byway.)