'Cody' home of the legendary Buffalo Bill!
Pat had planned the day's itinerary and it was good to see that the weather obligingly played its part! (We have been so lucky in this respect, throughout!) We got off to an early start.....made a little easier for having a room with two entrances...one to the car and one to the lobby and breakfast room! (A bit like 'two-dollar bills' they exist, but there aren't too many around.) Before it got really hot we drove to Heart Mountain Museum Centre, an interactive tribute to those unfortunate American citizens of Japanese origin who were interred following the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Its a real piece of history that is definitely worth visiting and is very well presented. Next, it was back to, and out of, Cody to call in the Buffalo Bill Dam visitor centre. This dam was built back in 1910, to hold back the Shoshone River, to irrigate the surrounding Prairie lands and its quite something to behold.
Finally, we spent the afternoon exploring the unmissable Buffalo Bill Museum, an entertaining and informative shrine to the great man and his legacy, and to the reality of the West in its wilder times. (And it has the handguns used by the Cartwright family in the TV series 'Bonanza'!)
We avoided the six-o'clock shoot-out in favour of getting a table at "Wyoming's Steak & Ribs".....ribs'n baked potatoes with salad......most excellent! (Nearby is the Irma Hotel, established by Wild Bill and still serving liqueur from that bar presented and shipped to the man by Queen Victoria.) As for a musical reminder of today, well we've been saving this for Cody.....
Pat had planned the day's itinerary and it was good to see that the weather obligingly played its part! (We have been so lucky in this respect, throughout!) We got off to an early start.....made a little easier for having a room with two entrances...one to the car and one to the lobby and breakfast room! (A bit like 'two-dollar bills' they exist, but there aren't too many around.) Before it got really hot we drove to Heart Mountain Museum Centre, an interactive tribute to those unfortunate American citizens of Japanese origin who were interred following the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Its a real piece of history that is definitely worth visiting and is very well presented. Next, it was back to, and out of, Cody to call in the Buffalo Bill Dam visitor centre. This dam was built back in 1910, to hold back the Shoshone River, to irrigate the surrounding Prairie lands and its quite something to behold.
Finally, we spent the afternoon exploring the unmissable Buffalo Bill Museum, an entertaining and informative shrine to the great man and his legacy, and to the reality of the West in its wilder times. (And it has the handguns used by the Cartwright family in the TV series 'Bonanza'!)
We avoided the six-o'clock shoot-out in favour of getting a table at "Wyoming's Steak & Ribs".....ribs'n baked potatoes with salad......most excellent! (Nearby is the Irma Hotel, established by Wild Bill and still serving liqueur from that bar presented and shipped to the man by Queen Victoria.) As for a musical reminder of today, well we've been saving this for Cody.....
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