Buffalo Bill Museum And Grave, Frontier history museum on Lookout Mountain, Golden, Colorado.
Buffalo Bill Museum sits on Lookout Mountain near Golden and displays about 8,000 objects from American western history. The collection includes costumes from Wild West shows, western artwork, period textiles, and a mounted bison specimen at an elevation of about 7,375 feet (2,250 meters).
William F. Cody created traveling Wild West shows in the late 1800s that featured performers like Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull across America. When he died in 1917, his legacy transformed how the nation understood its western frontier.
The museum displays Native American objects and explores how settlers and indigenous peoples coexisted during westward expansion. Visitors can see how this period shaped the relationship between these communities.
The museum is easy to reach by car and sits atop a mountain with views of the surrounding area. Plan to spend at least two to three hours to explore the collection at a comfortable pace.
The museum holds an eagle feather headdress that Sitting Bull personally gave to Cody while working together on his shows. This piece serves as a rare record of the direct relationship between the two figures.
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