Celebrating Buffalo Bill

Johnny Baker founded the Buffalo Bill Museum in 1921 near William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s grave on Lookout Mountain in Golden, Colorado. It was the first museum dedicated to telling about the life and times of Buffalo Bill. Baker filled the museum with artifacts, documents and photographs that he had accumulated over 35 years as Buffalo Bill’s foster son. Baker was the same age that Cody’s son, Kit, would have been had he not died of scarlet fever. Cody taught the boy to shoot and