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On June 3, 1917, under the wide Colorado sky, William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was finally laid to rest atop Lookout Mountain, just outside Denver. Although he had died nearly six months earlier on January 10, disputes over where he should be buried delayed the ceremony. Many believed he would be interred in Cody, Wyoming, the town he had helped establish, but Buffalo Bill had chosen Lookout Mountain himself. With its sweeping views of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains, it was a fitting resting place for a man whose life had been so closely tied to the American frontier.

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This historic photograph depicts William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody alongside a delegation of Pawnee scouts and chiefs, taken around 1885 during a tour of his world-famous “Wild West” show.

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