In 1883, in the area of North Platte, Nebraska, Cody founded Buffalo Bill's Wild West, a circus-like attraction that toured annually. (Despite popular misconception, the word show was not a part of the title.) With his show, Cody traveled throughout the United States and Europe and made many contacts.e founded his Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1883, taking his large company on tours throughout the United States and, beginning in 1887, in Great Britain and Europe.
Hoffman Name Meaning. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hoffmann âstewardâ. Dutch: occupational name for a farm laborer or a gardener, someone who worked at the hof, the manor farm. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Â©2013, Oxford University Press.
Hofmann and Hoffmann are fairly common German surnames, from hof meaning farmstead or court and mann man. Originally this was a status name for a farmer who owned his own land. But it soon came to denote the manager or steward of a manor farm. German names often changed their spelling according to local dialect.