Gary's daughter, Donna and grandson Eli take us to the Buffalo Bill Museum and gravesite.
It sits on top of Lookout Mountain. The views are spectacular!
He was born in 1846. Cody left
home at eleven years old to
herd cattle and
work as a driver
on a wagon train,
crossing the Great
Plains several times. Buffalo
Bill’s show
business career
began in 1872 in Chicago;
he was twenty-six. Buffalo
Bill’s Wild
West show used
real cow-boys and
cow-girls, recruited
from ranches in
the West.
Cody treated his
former foes, the Indians with
great respect and
dignity, giving
them an opportunity
to leave the reservation
and represent their
culture when many
were trying to destroy
it.
What a concept - equal pay for equal work. 100 years after his death and we still aren't there.
Lots of interesting artifacts including an umbrella handle carved from his favorite horse's leg bone after this death
We noticed a distinct resemblance between Buffalo Bill
and Gary's grandson Eli
Buffalo Bill is buried up on the Hill. It was his choice
that he be buried
on Lookout Mountain
overlooking Denver
and the Plains.with spectacular
views of where he
had spent the happiest
times of his life.
a very interesting experience. Then lunch in Golden.
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