Notice The Little House Right Of The Corral in 1800's
Same House Today In The Center of Town
House Bought From Sears Roebuck in 1930's For $495
Mule Deer In Town
Buffalo Bill's Family
Buffalo Bill's Childhood House
Old Trail Town
A Piece of Granite From Tunnel Near Buffalo Bill Dam
Tunnel is 3200 Feet Long
Area Before The Dam
The Area Today
Downstream of the Dam
Annie Oakley
The Irma Hotel - Built For And Named After Buffalo Bill's Daughter
Large Winchester Rifle On Top Of Gun Shop
Old Trail Town
Looking Down Main Street
Bullet Holes Above The Door Latch
The "Hole In The Wall" Gang
John "Jeremiah" Johnston - Mountain Man
Johnston Reburied Here in 1974
Robert Redford Was A Pallbearer
Jim White - Buffalo Hunter
Jack Stilwell - Frontiersman
Local Wildlife
Belle Drewry
John Colter
Jim Bridger - Mountain Man
Horse Halters Hanging From The Ceiling
More Bullet Holes In The Door
Traps
Profound
Elk Horns
Main Street
Tired Out Wagons - Full Of History
Cody Trolley Tours
Like the pioneers of old, we had to travel across plains and mountains to get here to Cody, Wyoming. So we decided to relax, sit back and let Greg and Rose do the driving and present their colorful and entertaining history of Cody’s past, present, people and places. They traveled thousands of miles to personally research the old haunts of Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley and other western legends. We had a blast and will take home lifelong memories of our visit here.
Old Trail Town – History
Bob Edgar, a native of the Wyoming Big Horn Basin, had developed an interest in archaeology and history at a young age. After exploring much of the region and having spent seven years working as an archaeologist for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Bob realized that the old historical buildings and associated material were rapidly disappearing from the landscape.
In the spring of 1967, the work began to gather the historic buildings and relics to be displayed at a site on the west side of Cody. This was the area Buffalo Bill and his associates had chosen for the first town site of “Cody City” in 1895.
Many of the buildings were taken completely apart, moved to the new site and reassembled. The Old Trail Town collection now consists of 26 buildings which date from 1879 to 1901, one hundred horse drawn vehicles, an extensive collection of memorabilia from the Wyoming frontier and authentic Indian artifacts. Old Trail Town is the largest collection of its kind in Wyoming.
Visiting these old historic buildings, reading about Curley and the "Hole in the Wall" gang was really interesting. Seeing the final resting place of such famous people like Jeremiah Johnston was amazing.