Day 33-Cody-3 Aug

Left Lake Village, Yellowstone at 8:30 via the east entrance to go to Cody. The main attraction here is a Buffalo Bill Cody Museum.

Buffalo Bill Dam:

Buffalo Bill dam wall with a log jam! All the rivers have log jams so no wonder it is at the dam wall too!

Buffalo Bill Museum:

Note the US flag - they are everywhere. We spent the afternoon there and learnt a lot about guns, plains Indians, art and Buffalo Bill who should have been called Bison Bill (because there are no buffalo in the USA) but it just didn't have that catchy ring to it. 

"Parley" by Earl Biss, Absaroke (Crow) 1977. 

"I am a dreamer, a nonrealist. My paintings say, if I had my way this is the way the world would be: beautiful, alluring, idyllic, simple, poetic and heroic. It is a world where I live in spirit and desire. A simple, nomadic, eternal, timeless world." 

Crow Winter Camp in Tepees  - Kevin Red Star (Crow) 1999: 

Fire at South Fork, just west of Cody, while we were here, made Ron feel at home: 

We came to Cody to see the gunfight re-enactment that is put on every evening at 6pm in the main street outside Irma's Hotel. Unfortunately last week someone got shot (where there is gunpowder there is the possibility of injury!) and until the investigation is complete the show has been put on hold. 

Great dinner and entertaining country and western show at the Cody Cattle Company with the Triple Cowboys-Ryan Martin, Ron Privet and Johnny Sanchez. 

Followed by first rodeo! 

Including prayer and American national anthem. It was a pretty good night in Cody, the country and western Rodeo Capital of Wyoming:

Stayed at Green Gables Inn which was not, unfortunately situated in quiet, verdant hills.