Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead was entered to the National Register of Historic Places. The Iowa Society of The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America owns the furnishings in the 1847 main room and the 1870 bedroom. Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead The Buffalo Bill Cody Homested is the boyhood home of Buffalo Bill Cody, a government scout and Wild West showman. The homestead is located in the broad valley of the Wapsipinicon River Valley south of McCausland, Iowa, United States, in rural Scott County. The farmhouse was built in 1847 by Isaac Cody, Buffalo Bill's father, of native limestone and contains walnut floors
Ram Chandra (snake showman) Ram Chandra (snake showman) Ram Chandra (real name: Edward Royce Ramsamy) was a snake showman in Australia. He was known as Australia' "taipan man" and for his work in extracting snake venom to create antivenenes. He was born on 24 May 1921 and joined the show circuit in Sydney in the early 1940s. He handled and demonstrated various snakes in 'The Pit of Death' and in 1946 changed his name to Ram Chandra. He was responsible for the identification of the taipan as a separate species from the brown snake. In 1951 he successfully milked a taipan and in 1955