The most famous person in Denver is dead, and he’s been that way for a long time. When William F. Cody, known to posterity as Buffalo Bill, shuffled off this mortal coil at his sister’s Mile High City abode on January 10, 1917, at age seventy, he was one of America’s biggest celebrities thanks to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, a touring company that distilled the story of how the Great Frontier was pacified into an intoxicating extravaganza — though not for Native Americans, since the troupe’s Indigenous performers mainly reenacted their people’s defeat…
Denver Closing Shop, Cafe Dedicated to Buffalo Bill
