Yellowstone 3rd Day

Red Lodge, Montana is outside the Northeast gate of Yellowstone.  Storeowners dog just watching the tourists come and go.

Sundance Kid robbed this bank in 1897.  Guess the law caught him but he escaped from jail again.

The drive from Red Lodge back into Yellowstone was very pretty.  This was a scenic overlook that we stopped at.

 

We got stopped by this herd of bison that crossed the road in front of us.

Mammoth Hot Springs on the upper look in Yellowstone.  More geyers.

 

We took an overnight trip to Cody, Wyoming to visit the Buffalo Bill museum.  It's actually 5 museums in one.  I found the museum telling about the life of William Cody to be the best.  He was born in 1846.  Joined the pony express at the age of 14.  He served in the Civil War.  In 1867 he began buffalo hunting to feed construction crews building the railroad.  He shot over 4,000 bison in a very short period of time.  Thus is nickname and celebrity status began.  In 1883, he founded his own show Buffalo Bill's Wild West.  He traveled all over the states and Europe.  He was so liked by Queen Victoria that she gave him a bar the cost of $100,000 in the early 1900's.  We got to view the bar in downtown Cody in the Irma Hotel.

 

 

 

This was a panoramic photo of the troop that put on his show.  The picture was about 4 times this length. A lot of performers.

Statue in the garden at the museum.