Pullin' Chocks

Two days at the Buffalo Bill Museum

Everyone that we talked with that had been to Cody, Wyoming before said, "you have to see the Gun Museum ...and you can't see it all in one day!"  You can't miss the museum situated right in the center of town, it is a magnificent curation of not only guns, but is actually five museums under one roof.
The five are: Buffalo Bill Museum - all things Buffalo Bill; Whitney Western Art Museum - paintings and sculpture, nice; Cody Firearms Museum - the famous gun collection everyone talks about, very interesting; Draper Natural History Museum - from fossils and extinct animals to all things about the Yellowstone area and nature; and finally the Plains Indian Museum - all about earlier peoples of this Yellowstone area, tribes, customs, lifestyles, clothing and regalia.  It took us two full days to get through all of the displays, just as we were told.  Two days well spent!

Sacagawea in bronze out front of the Center of the West.  Sacagawea was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition achieve each of its chartered mission objectives exploring the Louisiana Territory. With the expedition, between 1804 and 1806, she traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, established cultural contacts with Native American populations, and researched natural history.

Closer in on Sacagawea.

A Pony Express bronze along the way toward the entrance.

Steve stands with the Wolf.

Steve and the Bull Moose go to town.

A gruesome likeness of a brutal Nature in the Draper Natural History Museum.

Skull fossil of an Allosaurus in the Draper Natural History Museum.

Gari stands with a long rifle and hand gun display in the Cody Firearms Museum.

1905 Bisley Revolver given by Gary Cooper to Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. Combat Veteran in our history.  Murphy had the gun customized with Mother of  Pearl grips custom molded to his hand.

Gari loves a good Remington.

50 Caliber Gatling Gun

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Steve admires the miniature bronzes in the Whitney Western Art Museum.

Gari hides behind the stalking mountain lion bronze.

Modern sculpture in the Whitney Western Art Museum.  Gnip-Gnop I think.

End of the Trail bronze in the Plains Indian Museum.

Early gang signs, "I have seen my enemy and I have killed him.", also in the Plains Indian Museum.

Gari enjoys displays in the Whitney Western Art Museum.

Gari likes the confusing modern art.

Steve rockin' with Buffalo Bill.

Gari examines the shooting rider miniature clones in bronze.

Steve grimaces at the Bull Elk fight bronze out back of the museum.

Gari presides over the Longhorn round up bronze in one-quarter scale out back.

Steve dreams of Buffalo Bill and days gone by as he enjoys a homemade Huckleberry ice cream treat at Pete's Creamery in downtown Cody after the museum tour.

One of Buffalo Bill's many enterprises, the Irma Hotel across the street from Pete's.