Diners visiting Denver’s historic Buckhorn Exchange can enjoy meals among an impressive display of antique weapons, hundreds of mounted animal heads, and other taxidermy on the restaurant’s bright red walls.
Over 500 taxidermied pieces adorn the walls of the Buckhorn Exchange, as well as hundreds of pieces of “museum quality memorabilia on display in the Buckhorn Exchange which today is as much as museum as a restaurant and bar.”
Founded in 1893, the Buckhorn Exchange is one of Denver’s most historic eating and drinking establishments. In addition to delicious steaks, the restaurant serves up a look into the Wild West. Cattlemen miners, silver barons, railroadmen, Native American chiefs, gamblers, and businessmen used to stop by the Buckhorn Exchange to enjoy the “west’s finest offerings.”…