Well it is near Halloween:
Not just dead, but not real!
In Berthoud, Colorado a mannequin depicts life during the 1870’s in Little Thompson Valley. Berthoud is named after a guy named Ed Berthoud who engineered a railroad extension from Cheyenne to Longmont in 1877.
But that IS a real human skull in the center!
Dead Blacksmith
Alfred G. Bimson, I presume. He owned U.S.Patent No. 1,169,229 for a sugar beet harvester that he invented in 1915.