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.
New York There was a Dutch influence on early Hoffmans who settled here. Martin Hermanzen Hoffman arrived in Dutch New York from Estonia in 1657. His descendants settled in Ulster county. Johannes Huffman came in the 1720's and his family later moved to a Dutch area of New Jersey. There was also a Hoffman line in Dutchess county, New York descended from a Conrad Hoffman who had arrived there in the 1720's from German Westphalia.