The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-11
PLAN MEMORIAL
TO BUFFALO BILL
Visitors Asked to Bring Stone to
His Grave.
TO ERECT EQUESTRIAN STATUE

~ EktGl EQUESIKlAh SlAlUt
Stones Supplied by the $4,000 An
nuaI Visitors, This to Be Surmount.
cd by Statue Something Like aths
Waterloo Monument With the Bel.
sian Lion on Top-Museum Houses
Interesting Relics Of Scouts Life.
form Of huge pyramid, built Of
stones brought by visitors to his grave.
Is being planned by the Cody Memo
rial association. Buffalo Bill is buried
on the summit Of Lookout mountain,
In Colorado, the main range of the
Rocky mountains behind him and
Denver and the plains before. His
grave is marked by roek-built slab,
over which a gnarled pine, itself a
pioneer, stands sentinel.
1t Is proposed to build some sort
OF base or containing wall of circular
shape near the grave, and to request
that each pilgrim to this shrine of the
early West shall place here stone
to the memory of Colonel Cody. That
the desire to leave some such token
is strong is shown by the numbers Of
hairpins and small coins thrown at
present upon the grave itself. Signs
will be placed on all the roads and
trails leading to Lookout mountain,
explaining the monument, and the
following verse has been suggested
as a motto: fs
"As you pass along the stony trails
That lead to the top of the hill,
Pick up rock and place 1t on
The grave of Buffalo Bill"
Plan Equestrian Statue.
States and organizations will prob
ably send engraved stones to- placs In
the face Of the pyramid, and when Il
reaches sufac1ent height 1t will be
by an equestrian statue
Of Buffalo Bill. the whole to give
something Of the effect of the Wafer
loo monument with the Belgian Hon
0na top. i 9i5tn,a 50 lfcHarS St4-'. ~ ~
This will not be the first memorial 4
to the famous scout, for the city Of !
Denver has already erected . museum
near the grave to house his trophies.
This building, built Of pine logs and
covered with shingles, is known az
Pahaska Tepees after sthe name Pa
haska. or Long Hair, given Colonel
Cody by the Sioux Indians. In 1t are1
various relics such as the scalp of
Yellow Hand, the Sioux chief killed |
~ Buffalo Bill after the Custer mas
'acre; Buffalo Bits saddles and |
,ridles. Lucretia Borgia the gun with |
which he shot 1000 buffalo in one
rear; gifts from Indian chieftains
md from European potentates who
we're entertained by the Wild West
how abroad
The building is operated as a con-
ession by Johnny Baker, the foster
on Of Colonel Cody. and producing !,
manager of the show. Johnny Baker.
Who performed exacting feats Of
craftsmanship in the show. now sells
and souvenirs to the
isitors 4 at Pahaska Tepee. Some
$4,000 persons visit the museum in
he course of the summer
Pixies Peak Gold Seeker.
Buffalo Bill was among the gold
eekers in the pixies Peak or Bust"
old rush. He and companion fit
ed out raft to drift down the Platte
yer, cut in midstream the raft was
verturned and all their provisions
ere lost. 1t was in 1867 when Buff
10 Bill was only twenty years old,
lat he earned his name. He had a
1ntract to furnish meat for the la
orers on the Kansas Pacific railroad,
nd shot 1880 buffaloes in less than
ghteen months. The laborers got
, tired of buffalo meat that they used
} say. when they saw him coming,
Here comes old Bnffalo Bill" He
-ew proud of this sobriqHet.s until he
armed that another man, Comstock,
as also known as Buffalo Bill. He
lallenged him to shoot asematch In 4
hjch the name would be awarded to !
hoover shot the most buffaIoes Ia
Ie day. Cody AVON the match. % to {
, and became the only Buffalo Bill. 4 /,
He went into government servIcei
1868 during the Indian campaigns, s
q was made chief Of scouts and 8
ide for the Fifth cavalry by Cen
al Sheridan. He distinguished him
II by being the only scout to receive
: Congressional Medal Of Honor. It i
Is in.ethe Sioux war. in 1876. that +
killed Chief Yellow Hand PA !,
ska" Yellow Hand had said. you !
: big chief among your people.
big chief We will fight" Cody .
led Yellow Hand and took his :
lip, the only one he. ever confessed q =