Monday, June 17, 2013

Buffalo Bill Cody Center Historical Center-Cody, WY

The Historical Center has 5 remarkable museums-Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Draper Natural History Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, and Plains Indian Museum.  It is often called the Smithsonian of the West.
 


Buffalo Bill Museum











 
 Natural History Museum
Snake Handler demonstration-notice rattlesnake by his foot
 
Live raptor show in the museum gardens
 Golden Eagle


Great Horned Owl

Peregrine Falcon

Red-tailed Hawk


Turkey Vulture


Firearms Museum









 Indian Plains Museum






Statue in the gardens
 
Art Museum

Frederick Remington's Home and Studio


Display showing how Roosevelt statue was created with plaster and steel supports.
 

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir-outside of Cody, WY

At the time the Buffalo Bill Dam was completed (1910), it was the talked concrete dam.
 


 


 


 
 
 
 




View of highway tunnel at dam

Views of reservoir