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Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, circa 1940

Subjects
Monuments & MemorialsPublic Figures
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, circa 1940, Sanborn Souvenir Co. Inc., CO, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, circa 1940, Sanborn Souvenir Co. Inc., CO, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The picture shows the fenced grave of William F. Cody — Buffalo Bill — on the crest of Lookout Mountain, with an American flag on a pole above the white picket enclosure and a few visitors standing on the rocky, flower-dotted ground around it. Cody died in Denver in January 1917 and was buried on Lookout Mountain west of the city, a site administered within the Denver Mountain Parks system. The grave became a popular roadside attraction, and the Buffalo Bill Museum was later built beside it.

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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
340 — Buffalo Bill's Grave on top of Lookout Mountain Colorado, in the Denver Mountain Parks. --- No. 340 — at the top of Lookout Mountain overlooking the plains he used to roam lie the remains of Buffalo Bill (Wm. F. Cody) and his wife. Here visitors stop from all over the world in homage to the memories of this picturesque character of the old time west. ART TONE "GLO-VAR" FINISHED ✦ MADE ONLY BY BEALS, DES MOINES, IOWA POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE 13 AT 204 PUB. BY SANBORN SOUVENIR CO. INC. DENVER, COLO.
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PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co.
Series340
ConditionVery good
PublisherSanborn Souvenir Co. Inc., Denver, CO
NotesLinen-textured stock with a thin white border; printed card number 340 at the start of the caption. No postmark; unused divided-back card. Art Tone "Glo-Var" finished linen-texture stock, ca. 1930s–1940s. Light toning and a few surface smudges; no writing.

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Buffalo Bill's grave on Lookout Mountain, Colorado, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/buffalo-bills-grave-on-lookout-mountain-colorado-circa-1940. Accessed October 25, 2026.