They Stole Buffalo Bill's House
Tracking the showman and his home from LeClaire, Iowa, to Golden, Colorado.
Categories: Renegade Roads
By: Scott M. Fisher 04/01/2008
Cody’s Golden Grave
Our southeasterly course across Wyoming takes us to the Colorado border and on to Golden, near the foot of Lookout Mountain, our final Cody site. Cody’s grave site is marked at the very peak of a place that was a popular tourist spot even when he was alive.
It’s a long, switchback-filled drive up the mountain. Several buildings are perched on the summit, one of which is an old trading post named “Pahaska Teepee” after Cody’s ranch house in Wyoming. This was opened and run by Johnny Baker, a lifelong Cody friend and Wild West show star, primarily as a place for him to display his vast collection of Western memorabilia to the public. As the collection grew and grew, eventually a separate museum building was built. Don’t miss the little theater and its interesting video about the development of the site in Cody’s honor. (Pahaska Teepee also has great homemade fudge.)
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