Samuel Franklin Cody Samuel Franklin Cody Samuel Franklin Cowdery (later known as Samuel Franklin Cody; 6 March 1867 – 7 August 1913, born Davenport, Iowa, USA) was a Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight. He is most famous for his work on the large kites known as "Cody War-Kites", that were used by the British in World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting. He was also the first man to fly an aeroplane in Britain, on 16 October 1908. A flamboyant showman, he was often confused with Buffalo Bill Cody, whose surname he took when
Call You Cowboy Call You Cowboy Call You Cowboy is an American Western song written by Brenn Hill. It is also the name of the album on which the song was initially released. "Call You Cowboy" is the title track of Hill's album "Call You Cowboy", released in 2002 and nominated as Traditional Western Album of the Year by the Western Music Association. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. In the song, the singer talks to another person whose "father calls you a drifter, but I call you cowboy",