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EDITOR’S NOTE: “My Happy Place,” a CNN Original Series following celebrities on deeply personal journeys, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. CNN also tapped its anchors and correspondents to share their happy places. Wolf Blitzer’s hometown of Buffalo, New York, is where he finds contentment.
Buffalo, New York (CNN) — “Go Bills!” is the standard exchange here. I quickly surmised that there’s only one acceptable reply when someone says to you, “Go Bills!” And that’s, “Go Bills!”
“It’s more than just a rallying cry during football season, it’s become a kind of regional shorthand for pride, camaraderie and shared identity,” explained Shawn St. John, age 31, who I met in a Buffalo bar. “You’ll typically hear it used as a farewell, or a salutation.”
A visit to Buffalo feels like being in a play about a small town where everyone knows each other, and they bond over the local sports team. Only, it’s a reality, and it’s the Empire State’s biggest city outside the New York City area, and the local team is in the NFL. Apparently, none of this has gone to their heads.
Buffalo is an instantly charming blend of big and small, of cool and…
It was near the end of September, an unusually warm week in 1871, and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and a group of wealthy New Yorkers stood atop a grassy hill near the Platte River in Nebraska, where, two miles off, they spotted six huge brown beasts.
Cody was a legend of the frontier era, part myth conjured in dime novels. The men from New York had expected to find him as a “desperado of the West, bristling with knives and pistols,” but they did not. Cody was loquacious and friendly, an expert hunter. He knew that with the wind blowing from behind, the men risked their scent being carried to the animals and scaring them away. Then again, a buffalo is a lumbering, hirsute cow, and the men were outfitted with some of the quickest horses and held the best guns owned by the United States Army, which was outfitting the hunting expedition. The Army wasn’t in the business of guiding hunting trips for soft-skinned Wall Streeters, but it was in the business of controlling the Native Americans in the area, and that meant killing buffalo. One colonel, four years earlier, had told a wealthy hunter who felt a shiver…