Buffalo Bill Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Originally 325-foot (99 m), it was the tallest dam...
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William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most...
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Gordon Scott Buffalo Bill (character), the primary villain in the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1991 film adaptation Buffalo Bill Dam and reservoir...
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Buffalo Bill State Park is a public recreation area surrounding the reservoir formed by the Buffalo Bill Dam, an impoundment of the Shoshone River, in...
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local resident and developer Buffalo Bill Cody, who hoped to make the semi-arid basin into agricultural land. Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone River impounds...
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demand. West of Cody the river is impounded in Shoshone Canyon by the Buffalo Bill Dam, created as part of the Shoshone project; one of the nation's first...
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tallest dams in the United States. The main list includes all U.S. dams over 300 feet (91 m) tall, and a second list gives the tallest dams in each state...
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forks of the Shoshone, now drowned under the reservoir created by Buffalo Bill Dam. The notion that Colter's Hell referred to one of the geyser basins...
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county seat of Park County, Wyoming, United States. It is named after Buffalo Bill Cody for his part in the founding of Cody in 1896. The population was...
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Reservoir Buffalo Bill Dam (formerly Shoshone Dam), Buffalo Bill Reservoir, USBR Bull Lake Dam, Bull Lake Reservoir, USBR Flaming Gorge Dam, Flaming Gorge...
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portion of the basin. The project culminated in the construction of the Buffalo Bill Dam and reservoir. The wealth in the region also attracted outlaws. Butch...
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West." Pathfinder Dam is composed of granite blocks, quarried from the same stone that forms the river's canyon. With Buffalo Bill Dam, its contemporary...
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Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway is in the U.S. state of Wyoming and spans most of the distance from Cody, Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park. The 27.5-mile...
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list of dams in the watershed of the Missouri River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, in the United States. There are an estimated 17,200 dams and reservoirs...
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Cody, Wyoming, is a log ranch house that belonged to buffalo hunter and entertainer Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917). The house may have originally been...
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in central Park County and provides access to Buffalo Bill State Park, Buffalo Bill Dam, and Buffalo Bill Reservoir as well as other areas southwest of...
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women. 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft)...
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List of largest reservoirs in Wyoming (category United States Bureau of Reclamation dams)
United States Bureau of Reclamation. 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2014-12-22. "Buffalo Bill Reservoir". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological...
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National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Buffalo Bill Dam. National Park Service. Retrieved 2023-04-04. Frost, Ned (1974-01-25)...
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edu/news. Retrieved 2022-08-10. Kuhn, Jonson (2022-09-10). "Salmon Creek Dam recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark". Juneau Empire...
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Pongolapoort Dam, commonly referred to as Jozini Dam creating Lake Jozini, is an arch type dam (double-curvature single-arch) in northern KwaZulu-Natal...
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Shoshone River Dam, later the Buffalo Bill Dam, was completed in Wyoming. At 325 feet (99 m) in height, it was, at that time, the tallest dam in the world...
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Gregory Jarvis (category University at Buffalo alumni)
degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1967, and a Master of Science degree in the same discipline from Northeastern...
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California Buffalo Bill Dam, Shoshone River, Wyoming Bull Lake Dam, Bull Lake Creek, Wyoming Bully Creek Dam, Bully Creek, Oregon Bumping Lake Dam, Bumping...
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LeClaire, Iowa (section Buffalo Bill Museum)
Railway train derailed on 3 January 2020 around 11:00 a.m. near the Buffalo Bill Museum in downtown LeClaire, just yards from the Mississippi River. At...
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Maricopa Water District's Carl Pleasant Dam, which was finished in 1927, and upon completion, was the largest multi-arch dam in the world. The lake originally...
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Operation Chastise (redirect from Dams raid)
was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special...
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Snake River (redirect from Snake river dam removal)
Bonneville Dam in 1938 and the construction of McNary Dam on the Columbia, which would improve navigation to the mouth of the Snake. In 1941 a bill was first...
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2015. Bassave, Roy (November 19, 1998). "Wrestling's Real Deal". The Buffalo News. "WCW/NWO Thunder review (PlayStation)". cnet. December 23, 1998....
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Swelling River With Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change, by Tyler J. Kelley, New York Times, 21 March 2019 Lambrecht, Bill (2014). Big Muddy Blues:...
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