We spent several days in Cody, Wyoming before heading to Yellowstone. The city is all about Buffalo Bill. He designed the city including the placement of buildings and the width of the streets and the main hotel is named for his youngest daughter, Irma. The bar at the Irma is made of Rosewood and was presented to Buffalo Bill by Queen Victoria when he took his Wild West Show to England. One magazine said that "his charisma and exploits made him the most famous man in the world by the year 1900".
There is a "gunfight" every evening through September with the main characters being Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Butch Cassidy. It was more comedy than gunfight but a fun event.
The group went to the Dan Miller Cowboy Music Revue and had a fun evening listening to songs and stories from the old west.
Cody also has a museum that has been called the Smithsonian of the West. An excellent museum with separate areas dedicated to Western art, firearms, natural history and, of course, Buffalo Bill.
To top off our visit to Cody, staff (the wagonmasters and us) prepared breakfast for our group so they could have full stomachs before exploring the area on their free day.
GUNFIGHT IN CODY
AT THE IRMA HOTEL
AT THE IRMA HOTEL
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| IRMA HOTEL |
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| ORIGINAL ROSEWOOD BAR AT THE IRMA |
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| BUFFALO BILL |
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| WILD BILL HICKOK |
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| THE CAST |
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| COULD BEVERLY POSSIBLY BE THE BANK ROBBER? |
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| CALAMITY AND TIM |
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| CAMPGROUND VISITORS |
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| ON CITY TOUR |
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| OUR CAMPGROUND FROM ABOVE |
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| OLDEST HOME IN THE CITY STILL OCCUPIED |
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| COWBOY MUSIC REVUE |
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| BUFFALO BILL BRONZE STATUE |
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| THE SHOSHONE RIVER GORGE |
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| PREPARING EGGS IN A BAG |
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| BUFFALO BILL |
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| TIM AND KATHY |
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| BETTY PROVIDING TRAFFIC CONTROL WHILE KEN WORKED ON DAVE'S RIG |
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