A COUPLE OF ODDITIES PART 1

WHAT HAVE THESE TWO PROMINENT FIGURES OF WESTERN HISTORY GOT IN COMMON?I FIND STORIES LIKE THIS FASCINATING.WELL TO START WITH BUFFALO BILL EMPLOYED SITTING BULL IN HIS TRAVELLING WILD WEST SHOW BEFORE HE RETURNED TO HIS ROOTS AND WAS SHOT BY INDIAN POLICE WHILST RESISTING ARREST.THE STORY INVOLVES THEIR REMAINS.

TO START WITH BILL CODY EARNED HIS REPUTUTATION AS A HUNTER OF BISON TO FEED CAVALRY SOLDIERS.IN SCIENTIFIC NOMENCLATURE NORTH AMERICAN BOVIIDS ARE BISON AND AFRICAN AND ASIAN BOVIIDS ARE BUFFALOES BUT BISON BILL DOESN'T WORK!!

BB LIVED WHEN NOT TOURING IN A TOWN HE COFOUNDED CODY NEAR YS IN WYOMING. BUT WHEN HE DIED HE ASKED TO BE BURIED ON LOOKOUT HILL OVERLOOKING GOLDEN AND DENVER A GREAT SPOT WHERE HE COULD WATCH THE BUFFALO ROAM.(EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE ALL GONE BY THEN).hIS ADOPTED SON AND ESTRANGED WIFE ARANGED FOR THIS. BUT A PERSISTENT FACTION OF CODITES TRIED TO DIG BB UP AND TAKE TO CODY TO REST. THIS WAS EVENTUALLY SOLVED BY COVERING HIS REMAINS IN CONCRETE. JUMP FORWARD TO A FEW YEARS AGO. BLACKY THE 82 YEAR OLD WE MET HOT POTTING IN YS PARK WAS ONE OF A DELEGATION OF CODY OFFICAILS WHO WITH INDIAN ELDERS WENT TO THE GRAVE AND IN A CEREMONY TOOK AWAY HIS SPIRIT AND IT NOW RESIDES IN CODY!!

LOOKOUT HILL FROM BB'S GRAVE