Buckhorn Exchange's taxidermy and frontier relics

The Buckhorn Exchange, established in 1893, is a historic Denver restaurant known for an extensive taxidermy collection and frontier-era relics displayed throughout its dining rooms. The restaurant's walls contain hundreds of mounted animals, horns, and oddities collected over more than a century, and the Buckhorn promotes stories that figures such as Buffalo Bill Cody and Theodore Roosevelt are connected to items in its collection. Its combination of preserved wildlife and antiquarian artifacts gives the space a cabinet-of-curiosities atmosphere that frequently draws comment as an unusual or 'strange' local attraction. The Buckhorn's founding date and its large taxidermy collection are documented aspects of its history; some provenance claims for individual items are presented by the restaurant as part of its lore.