(2018 Alaska Ep 14)
We’ve been at Cody, Wyoming (RabbiTRAILS Alaska Map pt #19) for the past four days. Tomorrow we head to Yellowstone National Park for eight days. After Yellowstone, a quick return to Cody for a couple nights and then ON TO ALASKA!
We decided to visit Cody in part because of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a museum that is actually FIVE museums:
- Buffalo Bill Museum – tells about the life of William Cody
, aka Buffalo Bill – Army scout, entrepreneur, showman, founder of Cody and American icon. - Whitney Western Art Museum – western-themed paintings and sculpture, with originals from Remington, Proctor, Sharp and many more.
- Cody Firearms Museum – impressive historical firearms collections from many manufacturers – Smith and Wesson, Winchester, Colt and others.
- Plains Indian Museum – exhibits of Plains Indian peoples, their cultures, traditions, values, and histories, and the impact these on their lives today.
- Draper Natural History Museum – immersive, informative and inspiring displays about the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, from alpine regions to the plains.
In front of the museum, in keeping with the western theme, was a chuckwagon and gentleman who was making coffee in an old time coffee pot, campfire beans from scratch and sourdough biscuits.
Anyone who stopped by got free samples and a bit of cowboy cooking history.
Never one to turn down free food and VERY INTERESTED in Dutch oven cooking, this was a highlight of my day!
It took us two full days to see the museums. If you are ever in the area, be sure to visit this great museum!
We spent the other days doing more mundane things getting ready for Yellowstone: cleaning the camper and truck, laundry, haircuts, adjusting camper tire pressure and checking lug nuts, grocery shopping, buying hiking boots…and of course, a couple hours walking downtown Cody looking for neat western souvenirs!
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Buffalo Bill was my great uncle-in-law on my mother’s side.
Just kidding,
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