A wonderful day trip, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, an hour's drive from Red Lodge, will knock your socks off. It has over 200,000 square feet of well-organized exhibit space, and is divided into four major museums. The Whitney Museum of Western Art contains works of Remington, Russell, Bierstadt, and many others. The Cody Gun Museum has examples of guns going back 400 years, a replica gunshop, and many Boone & Crockett specimens on display. The Plains Indian Museum has exhibits and artifacts from the Crow and other tribes who populated the plains before the white man. The Buffalo Bill Museum chronicles Col. Cody's life and Western shows, and the fascinating people who toured with him such as Sitting Bull and Calamity Jane. Here you can learn more about the famous man who spent many a night within the walls of The Pollard, and brought the wild west to the world.

Be sure to drop by the Irma Hotel in town. It was given by Buffalo Bill to his daughter Irma at the turn of the century. Note the buffalo coat hangers on the restaurant booths, and the huge bar that came to Cody from England via Red Lodge.

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