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We had a hearty motel provided breakfast the next morning since we didn't have dinner the night before. I don't drink coffee so I had some kind of juice, scrambled eggs, a huge sausage patty and a little corned beef hash. The hash was salty as heck so I didn't salt the eggs(just peppered them)and ate a hunk of each in every fork full to spread the salt out. Do the best you can with what ya got. ;-)
The common area(where breakfast was served)at this motel was pretty grand and decked out in taxidermy and bear pelts.....
"Eat, Sleep and Fish"(or Hunt)seems to be the motto everywhere we go out here. lol
More animal heads and a fly rod.
After checking out we hit the gas station next door to fill the car's tank. I wandered around inside the attached convenience store.......
Cute sign.
And there was a cardboard sign on the side of this building letting you know which direction was which on the interstate this gas station was adjacent to.
There were a lot of t-shirts with firearms displayed on them here for sale. You know you are in the "wild west". I opted to buy a souvenir Montana coffee mug instead to tote home.
We drove East on I-90 onto we hit Columbus MT
Then it was local roads through Joliet, Fromberg, Bridger and down into
Wyoming.
I had to take a photo of this drive-thru coffee spot along the way. You'll notice it's called "Revenant Coffee". I believe it was named after the book from 2002 and the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio that came out in 2015. I had read the book by Michael Punke earlier that year and I highly recommend it!
A cattle sighting along the highway.........
The Two Bear Tavern and Eatery in Fromberg....in keeping with the Revenant movie theme.....
And changing highways to get to Bridger....
And Welcome to Bridger...
Truly a one light town, Bridger. And it's not even a full 3 colors traffic light. lol
A crowd of used appliances along the road outside of Bridger?
And back out into the wilderness.......
A strange thing being towed by someone by us on the highway. Is this a log splitter, a generator or what? I couldn't figure it out.
About lunch time we came to this place. I immediately thought of Kim when I saw this sign. *snort*
So we made a pitstop at the Blue Rooster Cafe, an unassuming little eatery, somewhere between Bridger and the Wyoming state line.
Not being very hungry as it was early for lunch after that breakfast we had at the motel, we just got a drink and a slice of pie each. Can't recall what pie I had but I do remember it wasn't that great. Hubs liked his cherry pie which was homemade.
And it was back onto Highway 72 and more of those lovely views of mountains.....
Another one of those log ranch entrance gates/structures........
And then we crossed the border into Wyoming(not our first time though).
The highway changed to 120 in Wyoming but the scenery was similar to Montana.
And we knew we were getting close to our destination for the day when we saw this billboard.........
And then this one, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the death of Buffalo Bill Cody, whom the town is named for. That's all I can figure it means since the town of Cody was founded well before 1917.
We passed this historic building in town that housed "the Silver Dollar Bar"....
Then the historic Irma Hotel, named for William F. Cody's youngest daughter, Irma Louise Cody. I wish we had stopped into the bar inside since made of cherry wood and it was bestowed to Buffalo Bill for the hotel by Queen Victoria(Buffalo Bill took his Wild West Show to England and Scotland and they performed for the Queen).
And then we spied non combustible locomotion on the roadway. ;-)
And of course lots of stores selling guns and accessories and advertising a gunsmith. Take note of the saddle sitting under the flag too.
Some native teepees on the grounds outside the building.
A howling wolf statue too.....
Hubs posing with a bronze statue of a native warrior looking skyward.
Hubs again posing with the 100 years banner on the building.....
Me inside the entrance posing with a grizzly.
The Museum had various rooms and themed exhibits in each area. I hit the William Cody historical rooms while Hubs wandered into the native fowls of the area rooms.
This was the holographic projection of Buffalo Bill as you entered the exhibits of his life.
It's too bad that you could barely hear what he said as it was in a crowded, noisy public area at the front of the museum.
A different location was called for.....
Look! Another sheep wagon sighting.....
When Queen Victoria and Prince Philip came to the US in 1913, Buffalo Bill took the Prince out big game hunting at Camp Monaco in Wyoming, on a fork of the Shoshone River. This is the trunk of a tree that was witness to that adventure. It was said to have been the tallest tree in the forest there.
Here is a Wheel of Fortune, using in the Wild West Show. Maybe there was gambling involved. lol
Here is a gilded beer stein that belonged to William Cody. It is engraved "To General Cody from Peck's Bad Boy". Info on Peck's Bad Boy
HERE. It seems William Cody was a rule-breaker who lived outside the bounds of the law at times so someone dedicated this stein to that reputation.
A print of cowboys at chow time.......
Me and the stagecoach.
This piece of jewelry was lovely. It's a priceless Gold and Diamond Fob and was given to Buffalo Bill in 1892 by Queen Victoria.
A reproduction of a tent camp the likes of which William Cody may have inhabited when out hunting.
A lithograph of painted panels commemorating Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as it was performed in London for the Royal Family in 1887.
Buffalo Bill has a big proponent of women's rights. He hired many female workers in his Wild West Show back when women were expected to marry and stay to have children, run the home and serve her husband. No wonder that Wyoming was the first state in the USA that included women's suffrage in it's agenda and gave women the right to vote in 1917. Coincidently, this was the same year Buffalo Bill died.
One of Annie Oakley's costumes and saddle along with my reflection. lol
Cut-outs of cowboys on horseback amongst an antique stagecoach....
I believe this was a Frederick Remington painting......
More bison.....
A typical homesteader's cabin of the era in Wyoming.
A taxidermy Bison momma with her baby, otherwise known as a "red dog".
Me taking a selfie with a big taxidermy horned male bison.
It took me at least an hour to get through this part of the museum.More on other areas of this museum next time........
