WYOMING - Cody

August 13 Monday Visited the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody.   What a place! Five museums in this complex!   The Buffalo Bill Museum, a Firearms Museum, a Plains Indian Museum, Yellowstone Museum, and a Plains Art Museum!  Luckily the ticket that we purchased was good for two days.   It would be impossible to see everything in one day.

Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Hologram of Buffalo Bill

Original poster of the Wild West Show when it was performed for Queen Victoria in England

The Wild West Show even came to Ithaca and Homer/Cortlan

Annie Oakley

Gun used by Hoss Cartwright in the tv show Bonanza

Guns used by Little Joe & Pa in Bonanza

Gun used by Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke

Ithaca Gun that Gary worked on while at Ithaca Gun

Description of the Ithaca Gun

 Gary even found an Ithaca Gun in the museum that he worked on while he was at Ithaca Gun in the 1970's.  He set up the manufacturing  process for the barrel of this gun.











 

In the Art Museum, we saw this beautiful painting which shows Heart Mountain in the background.  Heart Mountain was the location of a Japanese Interment Camp during WWII.  Last year it was opened as a museum and we visited it. (pictures to follow in a later blog).

Beautiful painting-- Heart Mtn. in background

Description of picture on left

Scene in the Plains Indian Museum

Hotel build by Buffalo Bill in downtown Cody --he named it for his youngest daughter, Irma

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