Bill in the Morning
Photo by Richard Luckin
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Wednesday, Jun. 3rd
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Is He Really Buried Here? A Free Presentation @ Buffalo Bill Museum
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden Sports
- 9-10:30AM - Golden Walks
- 9:30-10:30AM - Fit and Energize Exercise Class
- 10AM-1PM - Business Power Resiliency Event
- 10:15-10:45AM - Toddler Time - Registration Required
- 1-3PM - Watercolor Notecards
- 1-2:30PM - Google Docs: Foundations
- 3PM - Acoustic Preserves
- 3-5PM - Virtual/Call In: Hard Times Writing Workshop
- 5:30-7PM - Golden Marketing Hour
- 5:30-6:30PM - Kickoff: The Prosper at Golden
- 5:30PM - Canceled: Planning Commission Meeting
- 5:30-7PM - Contemplative Memoir
- 6:30PM - Taproom Trivia @ Holidaily
- 6:30-8:30PM - Trivia Night @ Golden Mill
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
10AM-1PM Business Power Resiliency Event @ Gnarly's
After the December 2025 PSPS outages, the City of Golden is taking steps to help local businesses be better prepared for future power disruptions. Join City staff for the Business Power Resiliency Event and explore practical power backup systems with contractors and installers. Whether you've been thinking about backup power or don't know where to start, this event is built for you. For more info or to RSVP, email the Economic Development Committee, edcomm@cityofgolden.net.
Location:
Gnarly's
1224 Washington Avenue (Map)
11:30AM and 12PM Is He Really Buried Here? A Free Presentation @ Buffalo Bill Museum
Photo by Dave Powers
Join us every Wednesday in June, July and August at 11:30 and Noon for a FREE presentation! William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was buried on Lookout Mountain on June 3, 1917. Rumors circulate to the present day that he was really buried somewhere else. Hear details about what led to the controversy and learn the real story at this FREE 15-minute graveside program. More information
Location:
Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave
987½ Lookout Mountain Road (Map)
1-3PM Watercolor Notecards @ Golden Community Center
Photo by Joyce Davell
Front Porch Golden Community Center - Bear Creek
Foothills Art Center Artist J. Michael Gatlin returns for another watercolor class at the Front Porch. Join a fun day of designing and painting notecards. Perfect for sending warm wishes to family and friends, or for framing! Learn a variety of watercolor techniques including applying color washes with a variety of brush strokes to create your own set of notecards. Guidance on how to design and create a variety of imagery will be included. Fee includes all supplies. Claim your spot now! Active Older Adults aged 50+
Location:
Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street (Map)
1-2:30PM Google Docs: Foundations @ Golden Library
Learn how to use this free cloud program (similar to Microsoft Word) to create written documents and then access your files from anywhere! Docs is great for sharing and collaborating with others. Personal device not required. Register
Location:
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (Map)
3PM Acoustic Preserves @ Golden Community Center
Dust off your old guitar, fiddle, harmonica, mandolin, ukulele, dulcimer and drop into the Front Porch for a friendly jam session. Questions? Call the Front Porch at 303-384-8130. Free. Active Older Adults aged 50+
Location:
Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street (Map)
5:30-7PM Contemplative Memoir @ Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
Writing a memoir may be the most challenging and consequential writing we will ever do. We think we know ourselves well enough to write about our lives, but the effort seems daunting, and its value dubious. After all, how do we begin to choose which stories to tell from all the days and years? And who cares? First of all, no life is ordinary. No life is without miracles and magic, great loss and great love. And probably no life is more crucial for our children to understand then ours, because they share more than our genetics, they share our spiritual DNA. What made us who we are, helps them see who they can become. In that sense, we leave them with more than stories. We leave them with meaning and hope. More information
Location:
Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
809 15th Street (Map)
5:30-6:30PM Kickoff: The Prosper at Golden @ 817 14th Street
Photo by Patrick Klein
Help us celebrate The Prosper at Golden, Habitat Metro Denver’s newest development of 40 affordable condos in downtown Golden! Hear remarks from Golden Mayor Laura Weinberg and learn how these homes will meet the need for homeownership opportunities in Golden. Click here to learn more about The Prosper. Register.
Location:
817 14th Street
Golden (Map)
The Golden Word - 06/03/26
Live Music for Wednesday, Jun. 3rd
- 6-9PM Bunny Blake @ Miners Saloon
Miners Saloon - More Live Music
4-8PM Chrispy @ Mountain Toad
5-8PM Dave Frisk @ Rock Rest Lodge
5:30-8:30PM Open Mic Night @ Barrels and Bottles
5-8PM Dave Frisk @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: A Memorable Funeral
William Cody’s burial service, conducted by Golden’s Masonic Lodge – Photo from the Golden History Museum collection
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Contributed by Paul Haseman
June 3rd marks the day of one of the most memorable events in Golden history. On this day in 1917, William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, the most famous person in the world at that time was laid to rest in the Lookout Mountain Park.
A procession of 20,000 people came to Golden by horse, buggy, auto, and train from across the country to participate in the funeral. They all trooped up Lookout Mountain Road, recently completed in 1913, to the gravesite, where George Parfet, Jr., (for whom Parfet Park is named) officiated at the burial. Parfet was the Master of Golden’s Masonic Lodge, of which Cody had been a member since 1869.
Present at the funeral was his wife, Louisa, his sisters Julia and Mary and other family members. Seriously ill, Cody had come to Denver from his ranch in Cody, WY, in December to visit his physician, Dr. East and stayed with his sister, Mary Cody Decker. He died within a month on 10 January at her home, a passing that was news around the globe.
Choosing a burial site quickly centered on Lookout Mountain, where Denver had purchased acreage for its nascent Mountain Park System that January. This mountain top acreage was augmented that May through a donation of additional land by Adolph Coors. That same month, Mary Decker, accompanied by the Manager of the Denver Mountain Park System, visited Lookout Mountain Park and chose it for Cody’s burial. Cody’s remains, after earlier lying in State for one day in January in the Capitol Rotunda, had be held in Denver (under guard) awaiting warmer weather for his burial. “Under guard?” you say. Well, the citizens of Cody, WY, were not pleased that its founder would be buried elsewhere and were rumored to want to see his remains returned to Cody.
It may seem suspiciously coincidental that Buffalo Bill’s resting place would be above Golden in Lookout Mountain Park shortly after Denver’s purchase of that land. Yet, Cody had come to enjoy Golden over many years. Among those visits was a trip to Golden in 1872 with Gen. Sheridan and Russian Grand Duke Alexis just prior to a then famous buffalo hunt led by Cody with Col. Custer and Gen. Sheridan. Other visits included sitting on the front porch of the home on 12th Street of Transcript publisher, George West, sipping and swapping stories as well as Cody’s membership with Golden’s Masonic Lodge. Cody was no stranger to Golden and Denver, where two sisters lived.
In this vein, it was clear that Cody had a great affection for and great trust in his sister. As the famous Buffalo Bill, it might be surprising to know now or even then that Cody was a women’s rights advocate. Employing and featuring Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane in his Wild West Show was unique at the time evidence in part his beliefs. Also, Cody had his ranch and home in Wyoming, which as part of Dakota Territory, as the first place in the world enacted women’s suffrage in 1869 and the first state to do so in 1890. Cody is quoted in the Milwaukee Journal on 16 April 1898:
Set that down in great big black type that Buffalo Bill favors woman suffrage… If a woman can do the same work that a man can do and do it just as well, she should have the same pay.
Colorado was not too far behind in 1893 with the rest of country lagging 27 years later with ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
But we digress . . . Cody got his sobriquet, Buffalo Bill, when he hunted buffalo for the workers on the Kansas Pacific at age 21 as it headed west. Before and after his short stint hunting buffalo, Cody served with the Army during the Civil War and afterward as a scout. Not any scout but the Chief Scout of the US Army. Notable was his scouting for the Army following Custer’s Last Stand in 1876. So, Cody was well known by General Sheridan and other military officials long, long before he gained world-wide fame with his Wild West Show, which he began in 1883. Militarily, he was the real deal and in 1872 at age 26, Cody was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery.
Golden honors Buffalo Bill each year with its biggest event, Buffalo Bill Days, and the Buffalo Bill Museum atop Lookout Mountain is always a great place to visit.
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy. Low around 55, with temperatures rising to around 58 overnight. West wind around 6 mph.
Wednesday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. Partly sunny. High near 82, with temperatures falling to around 78 in the afternoon. North northeast wind 2 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 57, with temperatures rising to around 60 overnight. West wind 3 to 8 mph.
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 57°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 89°F
Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 60°F
Friday: Sunny, 88°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 61°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 93°F
Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 62°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny, 91°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 61°F
Monday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 83°F
Monday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 58°F
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 89°F
News About Golden - June 3, 2026
Small but fierce Mines track team wins third at nationals
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
Only six athletes from the Colorado School of Mines women’s track & field team competed in the May 21-23 NCAA Division II outdoor championships.
But those six Orediggers were worth their proverbial weight in gold... Read more...
Mark Van Dyke named Vice President for Research at Colorado School of Mines
By Emilie Rusch
Colorado School of Mines Newsroom
Colorado School of Mines is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Van Dyke as Vice President of Research.
A biomedical engineer with 35 years of experience in university research, technology entrepreneurship and industry, Van Dyke currently serves as associate dean of research for the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona. He will officially join the Mines community on July 20... Read more...
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