Brigham, a horse which Bill Cody obtained from a Ute Indian was considered by him to be the best horse he ever saw for buffalo chasing. He called him the “King buffalo killer.” It was this horse that helped him to win the sobriquet of Buffalo Bill, which remained with him through life. He rode Brigham while he was hunting buffalo to supply the construction camps along the Kansas Pacific. Within seventeen months he killed, by his count, some 4,280 buffalo.