Reunion Tour - 17

Spent the entire day in Cody Wyoming, which you may have guessed was named for William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody. We first went to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, which is actually a complex of five museums: the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, the Plains Indians Museum, the Cody Firearms Museum and the Draper Museum of Natural History. It also has a nice garden area with sculptures and flowers. The Buffalo Bill Museum had many personal items from Buffalo Bill, who certainly had a colorful life. The Whitney Art Gallery had very good exhibitions of Charles Russell paintings and Frederic Remington sculptures. But I enjoyed the Plains Indians Museum most of all, probably because it built on the things we learned last year on the Lewis & Clark trip. We spent about five hours at the complex and enjoyed it very much. Had some R&R time this afternoon after which we went to a re-enactment of a good old western shootout on Main Street. Lots of noise but nobody died. Picked up some photos we had printed out then on to an excellent barbeque restaurant that we discovered last night. It's called Bubba's Barbeque.