On This Date in Minnesota History: February 28

February 28, 1883 - In the spring of 1956, Herman Pelzer, a local St. Cloud electrician, found an old and yellowed piece of paper in the walls of the Grand Central Hotel. It turned out to be a page from the hotel’s 1883 register. Imagine his surprise when he read the name “Buffalo Bill”! “Apparently William Cody, aka: Buffalo Bill, stayed the night at the Central House Hotel on this date. His first Wild West show wouldn’t take place until May 19, 1883, in Omaha, Neb., so this stop was prior to his show. The newspapers of the time didn’t mention his visit, and this registry is the only evidence that this famous man stopped in St. Cloud.” 
http://98country.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-february-28th-1883/

Photo of the Central House Hotel where Buffalo Bill stayed, courtesy of the Stearns History Museum.

http://98country.com/this-date-in-central-minnesota-history-february-28th-1883/

William Frederick (Buffalo Bill) Cody

http://listeningreading.blogspot.com/2011/03/buffalo-bill-cody-from-voice-of-america.html

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