I took the above photograph of the ghost of Buffalo Bill Cody at the National Western Stock Show here in Denver last month. It is during this 3 week extravaganza each year that Denver celebrates both cowboys and its western roots. And this is nothing new. At the beginning of the 20th century, Denver was involved in quite the struggle to be the final resting place of Buffalo Bill Cody. After much controversy, he was buried on Lookout Mountain just to the west of Denver, looking east towards Denver and the Great Plains, with Denver winning out over North Platte, Nebraska. North Platte felt that it should be Buffalo Bill's final resting place, since that was his home when he was alive, but they ultimately lost the fight. Take that Nebraska!
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