Near the top of Cedar Mountain just outside of Cody, a lone buffalo statue has stood guard for nearly 60 years, overlooking the Shoshone Canyon and Buffalo Bill Reservoir behind it.

The buffalo, a tribute to Buffalo Bill Cody, had seen better days though, leading a group from Cody to refurbish the statue as a community service project.

Two years after it all began on a chilly but clear day last month, things came to completion with the installation of a plaque commemorating the site.

“The sculpture being restored has significance far beyond recapturing the physical essence of a large cloven-hooved beast with curved horns,” group member John Housel said. “It subliminally reminds us that we live in the heart of the American West; that we each and all carry within us a part of Buffalo Bill

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