The Closing Era is a bronze sculpture of a Native American hunter standing over a dying bison, installed on the East side of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.

[3] It was originally created in 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and subsequently donated to the state of Colorado and erected on a granite base.

[3] The original idea came from real estate investors who wanted to commission a sandstone statue to lure newcomers to the Perry Park area of Denver.

The poem at the base reads:The mountain eagle from his snow-locked peaks For the wild hunter and the bison seeks, In the chang'd world below; and find alone

Their graven semblance, in the eternal stone.In August, 2015, the bow being held by the Native American was stolen but later recovered.