Buffalo Bill is buried here with his wife, Louisa Maude. On the day of his burial, Cody's casket was opened for one final viewing by his family, close friends, and many of the 20,000 others who attended the service, and stories that he was buried anywhere else are false. G.A.R. stands for Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternal organization of veterans who fought for the North during the Civil War. In 1923, a group of Lakota (Sioux) led by Spotted Weasel, a former performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, visited the grave and placed Indian head nickels on it to honor Buffalo Bill; the image on the nickel was Iron Tail, a longtime friend of Cody and a performer in the Wild West, and the tradition of putting money on the grave has continued ever since.