Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave Photos

The Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave is on Lookout Mountain above the town of Golden with a view of Denver beyond. While alive Buffalo Bill Cody brought picnic parties to this vista for day trips & it was the site he requested for his burial. The museum has a collection of posters, artifacts from his life & from the old west.

See also: William Frederick Cody "Buffalo Bill", Golden
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Portrait of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody on horseback (1922) by Robert Lindneux at Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave.

Pony Express Mochila saddle reproduction lacking locks as might be used in Wild West Show at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Bowie knife owned by William Cody at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Congressional Medal of Honor awarded (1872) to William Cody then revoked & re-awarded posthumously at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Dime novel (1917) featuring Buffalo Bill printed by Street & Smith of New York at his Museum.

Hand-painted lamp (c1886) with portraits of Buffalo Bill & Sitting Bull at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Costume worn by William F. Cody for shows (early 1900s) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Heroes of the Plains frontpiece of book (1881) by J.W. Buel showing Wild Bill Hickock & Buffalo Bill at his Museum.

Book (1911) cover of Thrilling Lives of Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill by Frank Winch published by SL Parsons & Co., New York at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster (c1908) for Buffalo Bill's Wild West & Pawnee Bill's Show (printed Strobridge Litho Co.) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster (c1910) for Buffalo Bill's Wild West & Pawnee Bill's Show featuring wild west girls (U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster (1914) for Buffalo Bill's Wild West appearance with Sells-Floto Circus (Erie Litho. & Painting) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show featuring visit of King Edward VII & Queen Alexandra (March 14, 1903) (printed by Stafford & Co.) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster of American Exhibition in London (1887) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster of Scenes in the Life (up to 1894) of Col. W.F. Cody at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody as Indian fighter at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody meeting Queen Victoria & appearing at Eiffel Tower at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody meeting Pope Leo XIII & appearing at Mt. Vesuvius (1890) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody appearing at Columbian World's Fair, Chicago 1893 at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody meeting royal families of Belgium & Kaiser Wilhelm + Bismarck of Germany (1891) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody meeting French & Italian Heads of State at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody as army scout at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody entertaining royalty & at his ranch at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Scene of Cody on tour with Wild West show at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Glass bowl souvenir from Columbian World's Fair, Chicago 1893at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster of Cody promoting international friendship (c1888) (printed A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Painting (1934) of Indians chasing U.S. Mail rider by J.P. Gogolin at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster (c mid 1870s) of Buffalo Bill Combination Show (printed by Wheat & Cornett, NYC) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Cody's beaded gloves at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Grave of William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) & his wife Louisa Maud Cody (1844-1921) at Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave.

Grave plaque of William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) & his wife Louisa Maud Cody (1844-1921) at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Grave marker for Cody's Medal of Honor at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Painting of Cody hunting buffalo by J.P. Gogolin at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Indian fan at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Painting of Chief Iron Trail who performed in Cody's Wild West show & who posed for American Buffalo nickel at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Feather headdress of Short Bull who performed in Cody's Wild West show at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Poster of Custer's Last Fight painted (1884) by Cassily Adams & distributed to taverns by a beer company at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Painting of Battle of Little Big Horn by E.W. Deming at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Swiss carved bench with bears given to Cody at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Collection of Western movie posters at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Collection of Western movie posters at Buffalo Bill Museum.

Movie poster for Belle of the Yukon starring Randolph Scott at Buffalo Bill Museum.


All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart.
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