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![]() Cody is a town about 50 miles east of the Yellowstone NP’s east entrance.
The town bears the name of William Frederick Cody: a soldier, a showman and a
buffalo hunter. William Cody was otherwise known as “Buffalo Bill”; made his nickname after taking contract to hunt buffalos to feed the Kansas Pacific Railroad workers. Many of the buffalos might have become sauté buffalo with oyster source, since they were using Chinese immigrants to build the railroad in the west.
Buffalo Bill then created a cowboys and Indians Wild West show and toured the US. In 1887; he took his show to the UK; presenting the show to the Kings and Queens of Europe.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cody ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This museum has a good correction of “guns that won the west”.![]() ![]() Buffalo Bill’s boyhood home; moved here from Iowa.![]() Many historical log cabins and buildings in the old west were moved to this “Old trail town"![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the very same saloon that "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" plan two of the bank robberies.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid ![]() ![]() "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969 movie) ![]() A lone cowboy![]() ![]() ![]() John Johnson a mountain man otherwise known as Jeremiah “Liver-Eating” Johnson; was reburied at the end of town. ![]() Poster from the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972) ![]() Robert Redford attended the reburial ceremony. |
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