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Message:: [QUOTE="der_meister77, post: 794823, member: 6402"]<img src="https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rieb/web/Cointalk/buffalo%20bill%20museum.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> This past December I had to opportunity to visit the Buffalo Bill Museum and grave site in Golden, Colorado.  It was a great experience I recommend to anybody interested in western history.  As a note, I took all of the pictures in the post during my visit to the museum.   While viewing the exhibits in the museum I was able to see a silver dollar that Buffalo Bill shot through with his revolver during a public demonstration.  This coin is one-of-a-kind.  Its connection with Buffalo Bill makes it a really neat piece of American numismatic history.  <img src="https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rieb/web/Cointalk/buffalo%20bill%20coin.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />   For anybody unfamiliar with the history of Buffalo Bill I have included a brief summary in the following paragraphs:    Buffalo Bill, was born William Frederick Cody on February 26, 1846 in what is today the state of Iowa.  During his lifetime, Cody briefly contracted himself with the Kansas Pacific Railroad as a bison hunter in order to supply the company's workmen with bison meat.  He earned his famous nickname "Buffalo Bill" by killing 4,860 bison in the short span of only eight months from 1867-1868.    During the Civil War, Cody served as a Union soldier.  Later, during the Plains Indian Wars he served as a civilian Chief of Scouts for the Third Cavalry.  In this capacity he was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1872 for "gallantry in action".    Later in his life Cody claimed to have also worked as a trapper, bullwhacker, gold prospector, a Pony Express rider, wagonmaster, stagecoach driver and hotel manager.  Of course, he was most famous for his world renowned Wild West Shows.   <img src="https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rieb/web/Cointalk/buffalo%20bill%20poster.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />   The popularity of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show during the late 1800s and early 1900s cannot be understated.  This was a period when the "wild" west was rapidly disappearing and the American public responded by romanticizing the period.  Buffalo Bill's show toured in the United States and even made several tours abroad.     It is during the later period of his life that Cody reportedly shot this silver dollar.  Cody passed away in 1917 in Denver, Colorado.  He requested in his will that he be buried on Lookout Mountain on the edge of the Rockies.     For more information on Buffalo Bill visit the museum's website at: <a href="http://www.buffalobill.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.buffalobill.org" rel="nofollow">www.buffalobill.org</a> Buffalo Bill's Grave on Lookout Mountain:<img src="https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/rieb/web/Cointalk/buffalo%20bill%20grave.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> [/QUOTE]

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