While I'm happy to enjoy the peaceful setting of this campsite, everyone else wanted to go on an adventure in Cody. Today they decided to visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. It's really 5 museums and a research library with artifacts and art of the American West. The complex is so large that it takes a couple of days to see everything. They only visited three and tired themselves out.
Kathe and Jim spent time in the Buffalo Bill Museum which was a showcase for the famous Wild Bill's Wild West Show. There were many films, costumes and photographs that helped understand his life and times as well as the character he created. They also attended a really in-depth lecture on the life of the sharpshooter star of the show, Annie Oakley.
There was also a very interesting Plains Indians Museum where they saw beautiful examples of costumes and artifacts displayed. Jim spent a lot of time in the Cody Firearms Museum where there were over 7,000 firearms and over 30,000 related artifacts. One section had an exhibit of the guns used in TV shows like Gunsmoke, Longmire, and Bonanza.
This Bear was on display in an area about hunting.
Everyone is so tired I doubt if they go out tonight as planned to the Irma Hotel for dinner. Irma was Buffalo Bills daughter! They are supposed to have a gunfight out in front of the hotel every night.
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