When you come if you will find Mr. Richmond at the judges stand, he will see that you have a good place to view the exhibition. Very truly, Wm. Dear Mr. Cody: I have now seen your Wild West show two days in succession, enjoyed it thoroughly. It brought back to me the breezy, wild life of the Rocky mountains, and stirred me like a war song.
The show is genuine, cowboys, vaqueros, Indians, stage-coach, costumes, the same as I saw them in the frontier years ago. Your pony expressman was as interesting as he was twenty-three years ago. Your bucking horses were even painfully real to me, as I rode one of those outrages once for nearly a quarter of a minute.
On the other side of the water it is said the exhibitions in England are not distinctly American. If you take your Wild West over, you can remove that reproach. In their later years they resembled each other enough, both physically and in celebrity, that, in the early s in London, an elderly woman approached Mark Twain saying she had always wanted to shake hands with him.
He is American to the backbone. Both men were born into humble surroundings but died world famous. In their younger years, the British lady may not have confused them. His eyebrows were thick and bushy. Eventually he got out of that contract but was never able to re-build his Wild West. According to his wife Louisa it was his choice that he be buried on Lookout Mountain overlooking Denver and the Plains.
Despite the claims of the citizens of Cody, Wyoming that he really wanted to be buried near Cody, close friends like Goldie Griffith and Johnny Baker, as well as the priest who administered last rites, affirmed that Lookout Mountain was indeed his choice. On June 3, , Buffalo Bill was buried on Lookout Mountain, a promontory with spectacular views of both the mountains and plains, places where he had spent the happiest times of his life.
The Museum Louisa, who had married Buffalo Bill back before he became famous, was buried next to her husband four years later. Today it is one of the top visitor attractions in Denver and Colorado. Return to top of page. During the course of his acting and showman carrier, Cody performed in over communities in North America and Europe.
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Plan a Visit. Sometimes, the legend of Buffalo Bill is bigger than the man himself. We suspect he liked it that way. This is why he was happy to tell people that he signed on with the Pony Express at the ripe old age of 14 and, after an apprenticeship building corrals and stations for the burgeoning mail service, became a full-fledged rider. Historians have never truly been able to verify these claims, and contradictions in his own autobiography have raised speculation about their veracity.
Whether he rode the trails or not, one thing is clear — Buffalo Bill was never one to stand in the way of a good rumor.
Bill Cody was very active in Freemasonry in his later years. In fact, he achieved the rank of Knight Templar in and degree rank in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in When he passed away in , he received a full masonic funeral — complete with pallbearers dressed in their Knights Templar uniforms. The legend behind this belief involves a bold plan, a middle-of-the-night trip to a Denver mortuary, and an unlucky ranch hand bearing a likeness to Buffalo Bill.
Arriving in the young territory in , the Cody family was greeted by a hotbed of conflict between slavery advocates and abolitionists. When asked to voice his opinion on the subject, Issac gave an impassioned anti-slavery speech. For his efforts, he was stabbed twice in the chest with a Bowie knife. He survived the attack and remained steadfast in his convictions — passing them on to his son in the process.
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