Denver museum’s missing bison returns after more than 60 years
DENVER — For decades, museumgoers and staff have traded theories about what happened to one of Colorado’s oldest museum residents — a 650-pound bison mount that vanished from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Former employees passed the legend down to new hires. “We always knew we had five bison in our founding collection,” said Andrew Doll, the museum’s collections manager for zoology and health sciences. “But for decades, we only had four.”
That mystery became something of a local legend — until last year, when it turned out the taxidermy bison hadn’t gone far at all.
When Rebecca Jacobs, curator at the Buffalo Bill Museum on Lookout Mountain, started digging into a bison mount sitting in the museum’s gift shop.
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