The Culture of Celebrity: Buffalo Bill in England - Oscar Wilde in America

710 10th Street,Golden CO 80401

27 February, 2023

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Celebrate Buffalo Bill’s Birthday in the Foss Auditorium of the historic American Mountaineering Center! Join the Buffalo Bill Museum as we commemorate the showman’s birthday with a free program by nationally renowned playwright, historian, and keynote lecturer Gregory Hinton. Doors open at 6 pm and the program starts at 6:30 pm. Please register to ensure a seat. Among significant holdings in the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave (BBMG) include rare ephemera from the first transatlantic tour of Buffalo Bill and his Wild West extravaganza to London in 1887. For William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, it was a dream come true. For Los Angeles-based playwright and lecturer Gregory Hinton, best known for Out West, his nationally acclaimed museum program series—the BBMG was a gold mine. The hand-inscribed invitation to Buffalo Bill on display at BBMG from Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wilde to their London home for tea, anchored Hinton’s dedication to shining a light on LGBTQ stories of the American West. It remains a highlight of his scholarship. An expense voucher indicated that Cody did visit the Tite Street home of Oscar and Constance Wilde. Cody boasted about it in his epic tome, Story of the Wild West. They had much in common to talk about. Years earlier, in 1882, Oscar Wilde visited America in his much-publicized national lecture tour on Decorative Arts and Aestheticism. Wilde was both heralded and derided in hundreds of stops. Among his favorite, Leadville, CO, where he was dropped into a mine and drank so much, he was pronounced “a bully boy with no glass eye!” Hinton attended the former Golden Jr. High, now the American Mountaineering Center, and looks forward to discussing Buffalo Bill in England and Oscar Wilde in America for the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave. GREGORY HINTON is a nationally renowned playwright, historian and keynote lecturer. Hinton’s work explores diverse cultural themes and how they relate to the community-at-large. A son of the rural Rocky Mountain West, Hinton devotes his energies to Out West™, his national museum program series offering lectures, films, plays and gallery exhibitions dedicated to shining a light on LGBTQ history and culture in the American West. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sign language interpreters and real-time captioning via CART are available upon request with notice of three (3) business days to [email protected]. For other public accommodation requests or concerns email [email protected]. The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave at 987 ½ Lookout Mountain Road is located in Lookout Mountain Park. The park has breathtaking views of Golden and Denver. From November 1 to April 30 the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday (closed Mondays) from 10 am to 5 pm. For more information see BuffaloBill.org or call (720) 865-2160. The museum and Lookout Mountain Park are part of the Denver Mountain Parks system under the City and County of Denver’s Department of Parks and Recreation.