Volume 7 , Issue 48

Buckhorn Exchange - Denver, CO...

The first part of this week we had traveled to Denver, Colorado on family business and stopped at the "Buckhorn Exchange" for lunch. Of course, this was before the snow fell later in the week around Denver.

The Buckhorn Exchange, located at 1000 Osage Street & 10th Avenue, in Denver, Colorado is Colorado's most historic eating and drinking emporium in it's second century of operation. AND... Great Food & Atmosphere! It was started in 1893 by Henry H. "Shorty Scout" Zietz.

It is recorded in history, in 1875, that Henry (10 years of age) met Col. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. At age 12 years young Henry was a full-fledged member of the hard-riding, straight-shooting band of scouts. It was during this time with Buffalo Bill that Chief Sitting Bull dubbed Henry Zietz as "Shorty Scout" because of his diminutive stature. Shorty Scout became a lifelong friend to the Indian. The last of Cody's famous scout band was gone when Shorty Scout died in July, 1949

Then there was the time that Sitting Bull's nephew and a band of thirty Sioux and Blackfeet Indians came by one day and ceremoniously turned over to "Shorty" the military saber taken from the vanquished General George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The sword remains in the possession of the Zeitz family.

There are lots of wild game lining the walls of the Buckhorn Exhange. There is also a fabulous gun collection that includes Colt .45s, Winchesters, flintlocks, smooth bores, Derringers, repeating rifles and even a rare palm pistol.

A great deal has changed at the Buckhorn since 1893. Much of it is as it was in the days when, silver barons rubbed elbows with roustabouts, miners shook dirt out of their clothing along with the gold dust, and "Shorty Scout" entertained the customers with tales of the decade he sent on the frontier.

The next time you are in Denver, Colorado, travel over to 10th Avenue & Osage Street for a delicous meal and fill your senses with a look back into Colorado's frontier past.

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