Buffalo Bill Cody | Wild West History Road Trip to Colorado

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<p>Alright, so Jen, I have another joke for you.</p>
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<p>What do you call a happy cowboy?</p>
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<p>A happy cowboy.</p>
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<p>Um.</p>
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<p>Not a cowboy anymore.</p>
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<p>A</p>
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<p>rancher.</p>
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<p>I</p>
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<p>figure I'll keep those going for a road trip series.</p>
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<p>about, um, I do want to call out another, uh, It looks like an updated review from a</p>
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<p>And there's a couple of people even on Instagram that said it was pretty good.</p>
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<p>Uh, Robin Wright Penn plays her.</p>
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<p>Robin Wright plays her.</p>
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<p>And, uh, yeah, it's directed by Robert Redford.</p>
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<p>It's a good</p>
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<p>movie.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>So that was, that's fun.</p>
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<p>Buffalo Bill Cody.</p>
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<p>was a legendary American frontiersman, a showman and entrepreneur who became famous</p>
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<p>for his Wild West shows showcasing the romanticized image of the American West.</p>
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<p>His larger than life persona and captivating performances made him a</p>
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<p>cultural icon of the late 19th century, leaving a lasting legacy as an emblem.</p>
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<p>of American Frontier Spirit.</p>
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<p>And while many of us only remember Cody for his Traveling Wild West</p>
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<p>show that entertained crowds all over the world, don't forget that Buffalo</p>
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<p>Bill Cody was also the real deal.</p>
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<p>So Jen, let's talk a little bit about this legendary Western</p>
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<p>frontiersman Buffalo Bill Cody.</p>
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<p>So where are we starting with him today?</p>
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<p>Well, we went to visit his museum.</p>
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<p>And Grave outside of Denver, Colorado in Golden, Colorado, and, uh,</p>
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<p>he's on Lookout Mountain and the address is Lookout Mountain Road.</p>
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<p>And we went out there because Buffalo Bill Cody, if you're a fan of any Westerns,</p>
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<p>even today, if you like 1883, if you like Yellowstone, if you like Longmire</p>
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<p>or anything that even like centers around the, uh, the, the Western, it might</p>
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<p>even Mandalorian might even be a good, yeah, because it's like a modern day.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Western.</p>
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<p>Very much so.</p>
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<p>You have Buffalo Bill Cody to thank for this.</p>
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<p>And you might be like, well, why?</p>
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<p>It's because he made this transition from the real West to entertaining</p>
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<p>people about stories of the West.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And when you say the real West and in the video that we made</p>
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<p>and we put out, and it's, it's doing decently because people are</p>
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<p>interested in that Western history.</p>
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<p>I mean, he, he was out there doing it.</p>
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<p>The pony express shooting Buffalo and, and scouting and also like.</p>
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<p>This transitional time of the West.</p>
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<p>That's right.</p>
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<p>So basically this territorial Western expansion this whole</p>
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<p>people settling homesteading He's pinnacle in this entire time.</p>
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<p>So Cody is born in 1846 in Iowa and His father is from Canada.</p>
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<p>His mother is a Quaker and they don't believe that he was raised that way,</p>
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<p>but he's the only boy in their family, his four sisters, and they moved to</p>
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<p>Kansas when he's seven years old.</p>
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<p>Again, his father has very much of this entrepreneur kind of</p>
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<p>spirit, the settler kind of spirit.</p>
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<p>And in Kansas, it's a area at the time when you think he's moving there</p>
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<p>in the 1850s where Kansas is under turmoil of whether it's going to be</p>
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<p>a free state or in a slave state.</p>
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<p>That's right</p>
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<p>You talked a little bit about bleeding</p>
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<p>Kansas.</p>
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<p>Bleeding Kansas is this fight in the state because there are some people</p>
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<p>who want it to be a slave state so they can have free labor and start farming.</p>
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<p>There's free labor and there's some people who want it to be a free state because</p>
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<p>enslavement is wrong and you can pay your, your laborers, which are usually,</p>
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<p>you know, your poor whites, you can pay them instead of using enslaved labor.</p>
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<p>And so, Cody's father is on the side of anti slavery, and he goes to a rally</p>
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<p>where he basically insults people who are pro slavery and somebody is in the crowd</p>
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<p>with a bowie knife and stabs him twice.</p>
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<p>Now, he doesn't die at that moment, but he will succumb to</p>
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<p>those injuries later in life.</p>
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<p>So, he, uh, Cody becomes the man of the house when he's 11 years old.</p>
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<p>So his father will die when he's 11.</p>
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<p>And so what does Cody do?</p>
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<p>I mean, he's in Kansas.</p>
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<p>He has a mother and four sisters.</p>
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<p>He does what his father did.</p>
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<p>He helps with this expansion.</p>
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<p>And so people who usually took an Oregon trail or would trail runners.</p>
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<p>You know, across America needed protection.</p>
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<p>They needed horses.</p>
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<p>They just needed help.</p>
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<p>They needed help.</p>
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<p>So he has 11 years old.</p>
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<p>He became what they call like a horse runner, which not only are you getting</p>
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<p>horses, but you're running messages from the person in the very front</p>
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<p>of the wagon train to the person at the very back of the wagon train.</p>
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<p>And you're kind of helping the people who this is their.</p>
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<p>business of getting these wagon trains out there.</p>
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<p>So, and think about it, like, I mean, for that kind of role,</p>
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<p>what, what better role for, you know, an 11, 12, 13 year old kid,</p>
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<p>you know, with all this energy,</p>
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<p>becoming a young man.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And early on, he's proven to be a very accurate shooter.</p>
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<p>Uh, he's very accurate, accurate with his rifle.</p>
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<p>So they notice this about him from a young age that he can shoot game and,</p>
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<p>uh, he can help feed people and he doesn't take a lot of waste bullets.</p>
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<p>And so it's not long before they also see his advantage at about 15,</p>
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<p>16, he becomes a pony express rider.</p>
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<p>So again, the same kind of business model, the same kind of</p>
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<p>men are trying to run messages.</p>
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<p>Right?</p>
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<p>Same thing, the male, and they're, and here's someone who's proven themselves</p>
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<p>on the wagon train to run messages.</p>
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<p>Yeah, an experienced rider can take care of himself.</p>
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<p>And accurate with a rifle, and so they use him.</p>
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<p>It's kind of a precursor to the Pony Express.</p>
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<p>He does some trails along the Pony Express, but even before the Pony Express.</p>
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<p>So he's one of those very like front runners, right?</p>
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<p>So the real deal, we talked about this.</p>
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<p>And um, and so This is 1860 when he's really working for the Pony Express.</p>
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<p>He's 16 years old.</p>
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<p>So, when you think the Civil War is about to start, he's too young</p>
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<p>to really join the Civil War.</p>
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<p>So, you don't really see him in the Civil War until 1863.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>Until later.</p>
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<p>When he's 18, 19 years old.</p>
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<p>And he becomes a scout.</p>
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<p>Yep.</p>
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<p>Just like, um, what he will do later in life, a scout.</p>
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<p>Go out in front, scout out the area where's the enemy.</p>
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<p>He can get in, get out.</p>
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<p>He's very, he lives off the land.</p>
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<p>He's a frontiersman.</p>
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<p>He's very good at, like, hiding his track.</p>
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<p>Yeah.</p>
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<p>And, I mean, if you think about it, for, for any general or.</p>
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<p>You know, unit that is kind of looking for someone like that.</p>
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<p>He's plug and play, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:32</time>
<p>That he comes in, he's like, I'm going to, he fought for the union side, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:36</time>
<p>So it comes into this unit and they're like, Oh, you're, you do this at any</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:40</time>
<p>other, it's like, yeah, I can be a scout.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:41</time>
<p>Great.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:41</time>
<p>Go, you know.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:43</time>
<p>Scout over here and tell us what you see and does it no issues, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:46</time>
<p>Yeah, and if you're successful that then leadership is like perfect.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:08:49</time>
<p>This is all you're gonna do</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:50</time>
<p>Yes And you know he doesn't wear the uniform because he's wearing</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:53</time>
<p>is like Right, you know He's rawhide like he's wearing his like skins and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:08:57</time>
<p>stuff because he's just a man of the land And this is where he meets Hickok</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:00</time>
<p>for the first time Oh, he meets him</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:02</time>
<p>in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:02</time>
<p>the yeah in the army in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:03</time>
<p>the army And the Hickok's nine years older than him and Hickok is also a scout.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:07</time>
<p>So Hickok is also very good at this again frontiersman Good at living</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:12</time>
<p>off the land, you know, hunting people, knowing where people are.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:17</time>
<p>And so they become friends.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:20</time>
<p>And it's during this time right after the Civil War that he is hired by</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:27</time>
<p>the Kansas Pacific Railroad in 1866 to hunt buffalo for the railroad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:35</time>
<p>So he becomes a military scout on the side as they venture out into the West.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:41</time>
<p>Think of Custer and everyone who's kind of venturing out after the Civil</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:45</time>
<p>War and he helps feed the railroad.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:48</time>
<p>So they're trying to build a railroad across the United States to connect.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:51</time>
<p>And this is, this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:09:52</time>
<p>is where he earns his name because he's so good at what</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:54</time>
<p>he does.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:54</time>
<p>Yes, between 1867 and 1868 he kills over 4, 000 buffalo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:09:59</time>
<p>That's crazy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:00</time>
<p>And he's actually, um, he's, Somebody challenges him to see who can kill more</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:05</time>
<p>buffalo, and he beats that person by 10.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:08</time>
<p>And the reason why is because a lot of people hunted buffalo</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:12</time>
<p>from the back of the herd.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:14</time>
<p>Scare in the herd and then whoever the, the, the low, you know, the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:18</time>
<p>slower ones is the one that we kill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:20</time>
<p>Cody goes out in front and hits the herd from the front and then it kind</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:25</time>
<p>of pushes them to the side where he can just shoot alongside of them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:28</time>
<p>As they're walking, as they're running by.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:30</time>
<p>So he can hit them and he just goes back and gets them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:33</time>
<p>That seems</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:33</time>
<p>like a much more dangerous way to hunt buffalo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:35</time>
<p>It's a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:36</time>
<p>very dangerous way to hunt buffalo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:36</time>
<p>And if you see in our video, first of all, we stand by a stuffed buffalo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:40</time>
<p>You can see how big they are.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:40</time>
<p>They're huge.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:41</time>
<p>Plus buffalo, They're just like bulls.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:44</time>
<p>So when you think of a bull, it's going to charge you with their horns.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:46</time>
<p>A buffalo will charge you when they're scared.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:50</time>
<p>Listen up, Yellowstone</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:52</time>
<p>visitors.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:53</time>
<p>What do all the teachers say?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:10:54</time>
<p>Don't pet</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:55</time>
<p>the fluffy cows.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:55</time>
<p>Don't pet the fluffy cows.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:57</time>
<p>Buffaloes charge.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:10:59</time>
<p>And so, um, so he has to ride basically alongside of them and shoot them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:03</time>
<p>And again, he's accurate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:05</time>
<p>You have to get close to get through a buffalo hide.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:07</time>
<p>And it's basically like shooting a deer under the, under the shoulder.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:10</time>
<p>Um, but he's so accurate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:13</time>
<p>And he also favors I read instead of like a quick action kind of weapon.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:20</time>
<p>He favors like a bigger barreled weapon.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:24</time>
<p>So he does want the, the get</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:26</time>
<p>it, get him with the one shot rather than needing to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:28</time>
<p>or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:29</time>
<p>He's very accurate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:30</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:30</time>
<p>So, uh, so And again, he's, he's so good.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:34</time>
<p>He gets paid a lot of money for this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:36</time>
<p>He's able to support his family this whole time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:38</time>
<p>He does become man of the house and takes care of his family.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:42</time>
<p>And, um, and he's paid a lot of money to kill these buffalo</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:45</time>
<p>to feed the railroad workers.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:48</time>
<p>And he's very good about taking care of people who work for him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:11:51</time>
<p>So anyone who's helping him, he's also, um,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:54</time>
<p>compensating them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:55</time>
<p>And, and now I think he even said in the video a little bit later in</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:11:58</time>
<p>life, he actually said, This expresses regret for killing so many buffalo.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:02</time>
<p>He does, because I mean, at the time there was a lot of buffalo on the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:06</time>
<p>plains, but in these years from the 1860s to the 1880s to the 1890s, you're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:12</time>
<p>going to pretty much decimate the buffalo bison population and almost extinction.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:19</time>
<p>That's crazy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
<p>In just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
<p>a couple of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:20</time>
<p>years.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:22</time>
<p>Yeah, and so and there's this twofold There's a lot of thoughts about that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:26</time>
<p>The military did it on purpose to wipe out the food source for the American Indians</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:30</time>
<p>Hmm, and so they would just kill Buffalo, but Cody Ate the Buffalo and so he felt</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:36</time>
<p>bad in the when it eventually came to the point where they do You know, you're down</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:40</time>
<p>to a couple hundred Buffalo left and thank God, you know, there were these People</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:45</time>
<p>who protected them and they now today, you know, even the herds are reestablished</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:12:50</time>
<p>But he did feel bad about that because he did appreciate You know, what the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:54</time>
<p>buffalo was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:55</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:55</time>
<p>And the, the museum we visited, visited, right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:12:57</time>
<p>And that's, that's kind of what this video is kind of predicated on.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:00</time>
<p>We were up there, you know, in Denver visiting friends, went up to Golden,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:04</time>
<p>which is just outside of Denver, up and up in the hills of Lookout Mountain.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:07</time>
<p>We went up to the, to the museum and the museum does a really good</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:10</time>
<p>job of taking you through his life and through these different stages</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:14</time>
<p>of his life, really showcasing, you know, how he was, you know, where he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:20</time>
<p>came from, how he was the real deal.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:22</time>
<p>And then what he did.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:24</time>
<p>Transitioning into kind of the show business.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:26</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:26</time>
<p>It was great.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:27</time>
<p>And I think, you know, so, the museum is, starts in 1921.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:31</time>
<p>So, Cody dies in 1917.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:33</time>
<p>So, when you really think the museum starts four years after his death.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
<p>Oh, wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:36</time>
<p>I don't think I realized that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:37</time>
<p>It's very accurate, then, in a patrol, because they get a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:40</time>
<p>lot of artifacts right away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:42</time>
<p>As you know, the, his, uh, His show coat is there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:45</time>
<p>They got peace pipe, some sitting bowl.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:46</time>
<p>They have a headdress from sitting bowl there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:48</time>
<p>He was living</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:49</time>
<p>there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:13:49</time>
<p>He was, I mean that's the area</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:50</time>
<p>where he was living at.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:51</time>
<p>They have his medal of honor there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:53</time>
<p>So the story is pretty seamless after he passes to tell the story.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:13:58</time>
<p>But I think that the museum does a good job of is showing you that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:02</time>
<p>Buffalo Bill Cody is not just a story, he's not just a character he is.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:07</time>
<p>This person who did do these things during this time in American history of the West</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:13</time>
<p>and then transition to the show of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:17</time>
<p>Yeah,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:18</time>
<p>and kind of telling his story numerous times, which when you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:21</time>
<p>tell a story enough times, even I.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:23</time>
<p>You know, you and I embellish stories at time after time after time after time</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:27</time>
<p>and someone like that, when that's your business for many years after getting</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:30</time>
<p>out of the business of being a scout and, you know, hunting buffalo and all</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:14:34</time>
<p>that stuff, like things are, you know, will tend to get a little bit more</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:37</time>
<p>grandiose.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:38</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:39</time>
<p>I mean, you can imagine Sitting Bull wore his headdress for every show, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:43</time>
<p>A chief is not going to wear his headdress.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:45</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:46</time>
<p>Every day, all day, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:47</time>
<p>But he's gonna wear it for every show, cause it's a very, it's a, it's a piece.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:50</time>
<p>Like, it's a very flamboyant, uh, piece of their costume.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:14:54</time>
<p>But, um, In 1868, he goes back into the military, so he's, he's taking a piece,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:00</time>
<p>he's shooting for the Buffalo, he goes back into the military in 1868, because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:03</time>
<p>this is when they start scouting out for the Indian reservations, this is when</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:08</time>
<p>they start the Indian War, so if you think of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:13</time>
<p>this is the time when Cody's coming back into military service, and this is when</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:17</time>
<p>he actually gets his Medal of Honor, and he gets his Medal of Honor because this</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:21</time>
<p>is the time when there is a lot of You know, uproar, instability between the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:29</time>
<p>white settlers and the American Indians who are being pushed off their land.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:33</time>
<p>Plus the American Indians of tribes are being pushed together</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:36</time>
<p>that don't want to be together.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:38</time>
<p>And this is what happens in Bighorn.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:40</time>
<p>And so the Indian tribes want their own spaces as well.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:45</time>
<p>They want to be their own autonomous groups.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:48</time>
<p>And so you get a lot of this back and forth, you know,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:51</time>
<p>massacring this settlement, massacring this American Indian.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:55</time>
<p>Uh, I'm going to try massacring this settlement.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:15:57</time>
<p>So Cody is brought in to help stop some of that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:00</time>
<p>And again, to scout that out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:02</time>
<p>And he ends up killing some American Indians who were there to kill him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:06</time>
<p>And he ends up, and I think he takes out 12.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:09</time>
<p>He's with two other men.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:11</time>
<p>They take out 12.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:12</time>
<p>And so he gets the medal of honor for this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:14</time>
<p>Now.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:16</time>
<p>The Medal of Honor was taken away because of this.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:19</time>
<p>And then it was reinstated in the late nineties because I think</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:22</time>
<p>what I read when I was putting the video together was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:25</time>
<p>because he, because he was a scout.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:27</time>
<p>So technically a civilian, they reviewed these medal of honors, I think.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:33</time>
<p>You know, I don't know, 10, 20 years after the facts or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:36</time>
<p>And so there was a few scouts that actually had their there was</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:39</time>
<p>there's a couple others like him They had middle medals of honor.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:42</time>
<p>They were removed and then what was it 19?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:44</time>
<p>It was when reagan?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:46</time>
<p>Yeah, I think it was cody's like great grandson or someone who knew</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:50</time>
<p>who's who made a petition to a senator in wyoming The senator in wyoming went</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:54</time>
<p>to the white house the white house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:16:56</time>
<p>I mean it probably was reagan i'm, pretty sure</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:16:58</time>
<p>it was reagan because it was like And he was like, give him back.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:00</time>
<p>And of course Reagan would be like, yeah, give him the medals of honor back.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:03</time>
<p>But they actually, they did kind of re award them, um, to them.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:17:08</time>
<p>So that was kind of neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:09</time>
<p>So I say this because it's in 1869 at 23 years old that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:13</time>
<p>he's going to meet Ned Buntline.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:19</time>
<p>So this is pretty significant.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:21</time>
<p>Ned Buntline is the writer, is the reporter who sees these great Western</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:27</time>
<p>stories and wants to put them in.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:30</time>
<p>Um, the Chicago Weekly News, he wants to put them in the New York Weekly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:35</time>
<p>He, he wants to write these stories and...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:38</time>
<p>The dime novels.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:39</time>
<p>The dime novels.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:40</time>
<p>And Cody is the perfect, uh, character.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:44</time>
<p>He's the perfect person to write...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:45</time>
<p>Almost unbelievable.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:46</time>
<p>To write these...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:47</time>
<p>What, what he's done.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:48</time>
<p>These stories about.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:49</time>
<p>And so he writes this really good, uh, book called Buffalo</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:52</time>
<p>Bill, King of the Bordermen.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:17:56</time>
<p>So, you know, like the border, and so, and he writes this book and what's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:00</time>
<p>great about Cody is the same year in December of 1872, he is, um, goes to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:10</time>
<p>Chicago and performs this on the stage.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:12</time>
<p>Tells the story.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:13</time>
<p>He's able to sit and read the story and then, like you said, he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:17</time>
<p>probably embellishes or stands up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:20</time>
<p>Sure, you read the story enough times, you don't need to read it anymore.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:22</time>
<p>And then he kind of knows, and so people love this theatric of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:27</time>
<p>learning about the Wild West from a man who really did these things</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:32</time>
<p>in the Wild West.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:33</time>
<p>And I think it was Ned Butlein who technically like gave him...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:36</time>
<p>kind of cemented his name is Buffalo Bill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:39</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:40</time>
<p>I mean, because it was a good nickname.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:41</time>
<p>Yes, it was kind of perfect.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:43</time>
<p>You know, mnemonic.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:44</time>
<p>Yeah, easy to remember.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:46</time>
<p>And so from there, I think if I remember right, Ned Buntline wrote a</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:50</time>
<p>few of these, you know, kind of wrote some more because they got popular.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:18:53</time>
<p>And then that's when that was the early stages of kind of this transition.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:18:58</time>
<p>So this is like the 1870s and he's going to invite Hickok to join him.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:01</time>
<p>He wants to invite a lot of his friends to join him because it helps tell the story.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:05</time>
<p>Plus he's like, look at what we can do.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:08</time>
<p>The West is getting settled and there's now, you know,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:11</time>
<p>that's, let's see if we can.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:14</time>
<p>Um, not only educate people about the West, but maybe we can use what we've</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:18</time>
<p>learned and make some money off of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:20</time>
<p>But Hickok hates it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:22</time>
<p>Hick Hock hates standing in front of people.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:24</time>
<p>He hides behind the scenery.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:26</time>
<p>He actually shot a Spotlight that was on him he shot it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:31</time>
<p>and so Cody sees right away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:19:34</time>
<p>Okay, maybe this isn't for you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:35</time>
<p>Yeah, and like That that's funny.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:38</time>
<p>I hadn't heard that that bit about you know, shooting the spotlight</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:41</time>
<p>that's on him, but You know, there's a lot of these men who were living</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:45</time>
<p>out in the west for such a long time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:46</time>
<p>I mean true frontiersmen just kind of out on their own or maybe with friends</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:50</time>
<p>or you know Riding with a wagon train or something like that Being in a situation</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:19:54</time>
<p>like that where all of a sudden now you're transported into Constant crowds.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:00</time>
<p>I can see how that would just be overwhelming for someone who is never</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:03</time>
<p>used to that around so many people.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:05</time>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:05</time>
<p>And you have a lot of freedom to act how you wanna act and now you kind of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:09</time>
<p>have to have a little more decorum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:11</time>
<p>Um, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:12</time>
<p>And</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:12</time>
<p>this is where Buffalo Bill Cody really stands</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:14</time>
<p>out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:14</time>
<p>Stands out.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:15</time>
<p>So this is 1880 and 1883, he's gonna found the Buffalo Bell Wild West Show.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:22</time>
<p>And this, think of this as like a circus.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:24</time>
<p>Think of this like a circus, but with.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:28</time>
<p>The West as the story, and that's when he's going to hire</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:33</time>
<p>Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:35</time>
<p>And he does this, um, a couple years later, he'll do this Wild West and the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:40</time>
<p>Congress of Rough Riders of the World.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:43</time>
<p>So he, he wants to showcase cowboys of the world and, and who are these rough riders?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:49</time>
<p>Who are these, these lawmen or anti lawmen?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:20:53</time>
<p>Of a, of a, you know, all across the globe.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:55</time>
<p>It was really neat in the museum, you know, that was up on Looking</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:20:59</time>
<p>Mountain, just outside of Golden.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:02</time>
<p>In the museum, they have a bunch of those old posters, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:05</time>
<p>And they, one of the things they said in there was that at certain points</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:10</time>
<p>throughout his kind of showmanship career, Buffalo Bill Cody was so famous that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:16</time>
<p>all the posters said was, I am coming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:18</time>
<p>Mm hmm.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:19</time>
<p>And that's it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:20</time>
<p>And people knew what he looked like and they knew what that meant.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:23</time>
<p>That's how, that's how famous his show was.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:26</time>
<p>And one of the things that I really enjoyed and you pointed it out well,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:29</time>
<p>when you start talking a little bit about diversity and, and kind of, you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:32</time>
<p>know, he wants a quality for all the people in his show and everything like</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:35</time>
<p>that was all these posters are not just a bunch of white cowboys, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:40</time>
<p>It's.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:40</time>
<p>Gauchos down from Mexico and Arabic writers and women</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:45</time>
<p>in India, Mongols, like people from</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:47</time>
<p>Mongolia.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:48</time>
<p>Really neat.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:49</time>
<p>So I can, I can only imagine and they do have.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:52</time>
<p>Very late footage I show in the video.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:55</time>
<p>They're like 1908 type footage.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:21:57</time>
<p>I mean they have like elephants</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:21:58</time>
<p>in the show Yeah, so this is people's taste of the world, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:02</time>
<p>like so we talked about the circus before on one of our episodes we talked about</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:06</time>
<p>Dan Rice and how this is how People of America before radio, before television,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:13</time>
<p>get a taste of what's out there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:16</time>
<p>And here he is bringing it to you.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:18</time>
<p>He's bringing not only the West of America, but he's bringing all these</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:23</time>
<p>different kind of cowboys of the world.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:25</time>
<p>So you get a taste of elephants, you get a taste of seeing</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:28</time>
<p>people from different countries.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:29</time>
<p>And Cody, it's important to Cody, again, from a young age to share.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:34</time>
<p>the wealth.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:35</time>
<p>So he makes sure people are paid equally.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:39</time>
<p>Women are paid equally.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:40</time>
<p>People of color are paid equally.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:42</time>
<p>And I know someone had commented, well, Cody doesn't care about diversity.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:45</time>
<p>That's a today thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:47</time>
<p>It's, it's, it's before that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:49</time>
<p>This is a precursor that he's not interested in diversity.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:22:51</time>
<p>He's interested in people and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:53</time>
<p>quality.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:54</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:54</time>
<p>I mean, they may not have called it that, but he would have said like, Hey,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:22:58</time>
<p>you know, these people are in my show.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:00</time>
<p>I'm not going to not pay people.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:01</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:02</time>
<p>Just because they're different than me or because Sitting Bull was a Native</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:06</time>
<p>American or something like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:07</time>
<p>So, and I also think this is also a smart businessman because you're</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:12</time>
<p>going to get a good performance out of people if people are being paid.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:16</time>
<p>Absolutely.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:16</time>
<p>And they have job satisfaction, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:19</time>
<p>We talk about this all the time.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:20</time>
<p>You have job satisfaction, you're going to put on a good show.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:23</time>
<p>And that's the most important thing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:25</time>
<p>And what this museum has that I love are these colorful Posters these</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:30</time>
<p>propaganda posters just like the circus that would come into town before</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:34</time>
<p>you would come into town and they're larger than life and Cody traveled</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:40</time>
<p>the world.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:41</time>
<p>Yeah, I mean, legitimately the world.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:23:42</time>
<p>Didn't he like, didn't he perform like in the Coliseum</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:46</time>
<p>in Rome?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:46</time>
<p>Yes, and he performed for Queen Victoria.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:48</time>
<p>That's crazy.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:49</time>
<p>He, it was amazing.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:51</time>
<p>He would go, he went over to Europe.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:54</time>
<p>He performed for Queen Victoria.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:55</time>
<p>Queen Victoria gave him a desk.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:57</time>
<p>Like Mark Twain.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:23:58</time>
<p>was jealous of how much popularity Buffalo Bill Cody had.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:02</time>
<p>And you can think of Mark Twain, who was well known.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:05</time>
<p>Cody was known by everybody.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:07</time>
<p>And he brought the show everywhere.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:10</time>
<p>He traveled, there's a book there at the museum, and you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:13</time>
<p>can look to see if your town</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:15</time>
<p>is...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:24:15</time>
<p>I didn't get a chance to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:16</time>
<p>look through it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:17</time>
<p>But he came to every town we've been in with the military.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:21</time>
<p>He has been there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:22</time>
<p>And that was pretty interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:24</time>
<p>Now there are some states that aren't states at the time, but you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:28</time>
<p>can look and see if he came to like the territory, maybe where you live.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:32</time>
<p>But Cody, and I'm not talking just once to these cities, like</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:36</time>
<p>he's been there a couple times.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:38</time>
<p>So this show was a consistent traveling show and pretty much like</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:43</time>
<p>a circus probably doing two days, moving on two days, moving on.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:46</time>
<p>And the, and it would kind of travel before you, before, you</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:50</time>
<p>know, everybody who was the show, the showcases would get there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:24:55</time>
<p>So, uh, Yeah, he was very, very popular and again, um, just</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:01</time>
<p>really making a name for himself all over and traveling all over.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:04</time>
<p>And then, you know, as he gets a little later in life, that's</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:06</time>
<p>when you start to see the movie</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:08</time>
<p>films.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:08</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:09</time>
<p>That was fun.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:10</time>
<p>And because, and I actually wasn't expecting to be able to find that, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:13</time>
<p>when we were in the museum, they actually have some stuff playing on a loop.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:17</time>
<p>Um, because if you think about it was some of our other videos, we</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:21</time>
<p>talk about the world's fairs, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:24</time>
<p>And so that's the very early 1900s, 1901, two, three, four, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:28</time>
<p>When they have, you know, photographs are becoming more used.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:31</time>
<p>And then all of a sudden they start figuring out basic, basic video film.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:35</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:36</time>
<p>And so they start</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:37</time>
<p>filming some of the shows.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:38</time>
<p>It's a Edison studios invited Buffalo Bill and his show to be filmed in the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:42</time>
<p>early Senate film called Buffalo Bill.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:44</time>
<p>And that's actually</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:44</time>
<p>when I, where I found the clips.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:46</time>
<p>It was, it's labeled as such.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:25:48</time>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:49</time>
<p>And, you know, he was part of the World's Fair in Chicago.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:52</time>
<p>He meets the Pope.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:54</time>
<p>He made, he met Queen Victoria.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:25:56</time>
<p>Mark Twain commented, it's often said on the other side of the water that none of</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:00</time>
<p>the exhibitions which we send to England.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:03</time>
<p>are purely and distinctly American.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:06</time>
<p>If you will take the Wild West show over there, you can remove that reproach.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:11</time>
<p>That's what he said.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:11</time>
<p>Interesting.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:12</time>
<p>So the Wild West brought a foreign, exotic foreign world to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:15</time>
<p>life for its European audiences.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:17</time>
<p>It gave them a glimpse of the fading American frontier.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:20</time>
<p>And That's interesting because what you're going to get in return at the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:25</time>
<p>time is you get Dickens who wants to come to the West and you get Oscar Wilde</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:29</time>
<p>who wants to come to the West because this is a fading American frontier, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:32</time>
<p>they're learning about it from Cody.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:34</time>
<p>So Cody is bringing it to all these places around the world.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:39</time>
<p>Like this is what America is basically overcoming the wildness of it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:46</time>
<p>And, uh, and people want to see it before it goes away.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:26:48</time>
<p>Yeah, and, and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:49</time>
<p>one of the things that I found interesting kind of as, as Buffalo</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:53</time>
<p>Bill Cody, I mean, he had his show for quite some time and made tons of money,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:26:58</time>
<p>but he was not the best businessman.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:00</time>
<p>He kept trying to invest his money afterwards and just not being successful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:05</time>
<p>He tried to retire once or twice.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:06</time>
<p>Yeah, so he tried to buy a ranch in...</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:09</time>
<p>Nebraska that was unsuccessful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:11</time>
<p>He took Cody, Wyoming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:13</time>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:13</time>
<p>Right.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:14</time>
<p>So he establishes Cody, Wyoming, and he tries to bring water up</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:18</time>
<p>there and he tries to, you know, just establish a life up there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:25</time>
<p>And again, then he starts to see it being exploited.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:27</time>
<p>He starts to see the people coming in and taking the coal and things like that.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:31</time>
<p>So one thing for Cody, I think he sees is he starts to really see.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:36</time>
<p>uh, appreciation for the Western culture, but he sees it change dramatically.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:40</time>
<p>During his life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:41</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:42</time>
<p>So he, he sees the West one way he's lives the West one way and then it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:46</time>
<p>completely changes during his lifetime.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:27:49</time>
<p>I mean,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:49</time>
<p>that really is a massive shifting point for the country, right?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:53</time>
<p>Think about he lived through the Civil War.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:55</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:56</time>
<p>And then he lived through, you know, the turn of the century.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:27:58</time>
<p>And that's, that, the turn of the century really is kind of that, that newer</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:03</time>
<p>industrial revolution for, for the U.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:28:05</time>
<p>S., you know, and he passes away just before World War I.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:07</time>
<p>Yeah, his show is basically sold off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:10</time>
<p>Uh, he, he, again, it's It's a circus.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:13</time>
<p>It's a, and so you're basically, I would think you're basically just breaking even.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:17</time>
<p>'cause you're paying people, you're moving things, you're kind of keeping</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:20</time>
<p>up with the times and then just, you know, it's hard to make a profit.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:25</time>
<p>And so his show is sold off.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:27</time>
<p>He goes bankrupt, he's sold off, he has to perform in some shows</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:30</time>
<p>as part of his, uh, contract.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:33</time>
<p>And then he just gets sick.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:35</time>
<p>And it's just This is later in life.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:37</time>
<p>Later in life, yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:38</time>
<p>And so in 1917, he.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:41</time>
<p>He's told at the beginning of the year, he's told he has two weeks</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:45</time>
<p>to live and he's in Colorado.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:47</time>
<p>So he makes it to his sister's house in Denver, Colorado.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:50</time>
<p>And there's an Instagram of me going to the house.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:52</time>
<p>It's at 2932 Lafayette Street in Denver.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:55</time>
<p>It's still there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:57</time>
<p>And he makes it to his sister's house when he dies.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:28:59</time>
<p>January 10th of 1917 and he gets, uh, baptized the day before he</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:05</time>
<p>dies and, uh, he's with his wife.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:29:09</time>
<p>And it was like, there was a massive crowd that came to his</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:12</time>
<p>funeral.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:13</time>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:13</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:14</time>
<p>Well, he, um, again, this is January.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:16</time>
<p>So he goes into the rotunda at the Capitol.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:19</time>
<p>He's friends with the governor of Colorado and the, you know, people have really</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:23</time>
<p>appreciated what he meant to the West.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:26</time>
<p>And so 25, 000 people will visit him laying in state in the rotunda.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:32</time>
<p>And then of course, they're going to wait to bury him because it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:37</time>
<p>Winter.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:37</time>
<p>Yeah, the ground's frozen.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:38</time>
<p>In Colorado.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:39</time>
<p>But on his deathbed, he tells his wife that he wants to be</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:41</time>
<p>buried at Overlook Mountain.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:43</time>
<p>Uh, most people thought he was going to be buried in Cody, Wyoming, his namesake.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:49</time>
<p>But uh, he, he says to her he wants that and other people heard him say it too.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:54</time>
<p>And because of that, when she buries him on June 3rd, 1917, she will open</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:29:58</time>
<p>his coffin because people will be complaining, why is he being buried here?</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:04</time>
<p>I thought it was supposed to be Cody.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:06</time>
<p>And she goes, this is what he wanted.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:07</time>
<p>These were his last wishes.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:08</time>
<p>His sister will pick out the plot area and look out mountain.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:13</time>
<p>And then he's buried there and his, um, his wife will join</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:17</time>
<p>him four years later in 1921.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:20</time>
<p>So they're buried side by side and it's after she's buried there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:24</time>
<p>that this whole controversy around Cody, Wyoming really picks up.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:27</time>
<p>Oh, just because she's gone.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:29</time>
<p>And she's gone and no one can really confirm what he said.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:32</time>
<p>And then his daughter chooses to be buried in Cody, Wyoming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:36</time>
<p>And she's a real proponent of my dad wanted to be buried in Cody, Wyoming.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:42</time>
<p>So Cody, Wyoming plays these games of, uh, we'll pay anybody 10, 000.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:49</time>
<p>and bring it back to Cody, Wyoming, and there's claims that somebody did do it</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:54</time>
<p>and he's buried on the mountain there in Cody, Wyoming, but if you go to the grave</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:30:58</time>
<p>and lookout mountain, he's buried under concrete and he's buried around a fence.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:03</time>
<p>So there is no reason to believe that his body isn't still there in, um, at lookout</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:09</time>
<p>mountain.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:10</time>
<p>But again, that just speaks to the popularity of.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:12</time>
<p>Of how popular was he even at the time he was such a massive</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:15</time>
<p>draw and so publicly well known.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:17</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:17</time>
<p>I mean, this argument is to say that he was the most famous person</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:20</time>
<p>in the turn of the 20th century.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:22</time>
<p>Yeah.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:22</time>
<p>Um, so there's a 80, 000 visitors will visit the Buffalo Bill Museum</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:27</time>
<p>and grave in golden Colorado.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:29</time>
<p>I will say that, um, the kids loved it.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
<p>Oh,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:33</time>
<p>it was, it was such a good museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:35</time>
<p>If you're in that area, you, you need to go up there.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:38</time>
<p>It's not far outside</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:40</time>
<p>of Golden.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:40</time>
<p>You don't even know you're really outside of Denver.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:42</time>
<p>And you have a beautiful lookout, a great picture, uh, spot,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:47</time>
<p>great picturesque location.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:49</time>
<p>I kept finding like engagement photos online.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:52</time>
<p>Every time I was trying to look for, for photos, I kept finding</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:31:54</time>
<p>there's all these couples</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:55</time>
<p>that get engaged.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:56</time>
<p>It's so beautiful.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:57</time>
<p>And the kids, so they have like.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:31:58</time>
<p>Fake horses that the kids can ride and they have cowboy hats that you can put</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:03</time>
<p>on and wear And so the kids really had a great time and I don't know if they</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:08</time>
<p>quite appreciated who Buffalo Bill Cody was But they appreciated being able to</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:11</time>
<p>play with all those things in the museum.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:14</time>
<p>So that's really great for</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:15</time>
<p>kids.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:15</time>
<p>Yeah Yeah, they did a really good job.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:17</time>
<p>It was it was very fun to do And I so enjoyed going out there, not just because</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:23</time>
<p>we were West and closer to kind of, you know, where my roots are, um, but</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:28</time>
<p>also because we really were seeing this kind of larger than life character and</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:33</time>
<p>in his own museum and kind of learning about him was, was just fascinating.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:38</time>
<p>For, for folks nowadays, if you ever kind of played Cowboys and Indians</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:43</time>
<p>when you were growing up, some piece of you is thinking, is doing that</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:32:47</time>
<p>because of what Buffalo Bill Cody</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:49</time>
<p>did.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:49</time>
<p>I think the biggest message you should get from Buffalo Bill Cody, and I hope</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:52</time>
<p>we explained in this podcast, is he really went from adversary to advocate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:32:57</time>
<p>He really went from a person who was part of this Western expansion and saw the</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:01</time>
<p>American Indians as an adversary and then really learned to become an advocate.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:06</time>
<p>for all of those people who helped to make the American West what</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:11</time>
<p>it was and what it is today.</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Jenn:</cite>
<time>00:33:13</time>
<p>Well, again,</p>
<p></p>
<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:13</time>
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<cite>Scott:</cite>
<time>00:33:15</time>
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<time>00:33:17</time>
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<time>00:33:21</time>
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<time>00:33:25</time>
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<time>00:33:29</time>
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<time>00:33:34</time>
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<time>00:33:37</time>
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<time>00:33:41</time>
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<time>00:33:45</time>
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<time>00:33:50</time>
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<time>00:33:55</time>
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<time>00:33:56</time>
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