On the east side of Yellowstone National Park lies Cody, Wy. A friend knows how much I like museums and guns (not necessarily in that order) and he told me about the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody which is a complex of five museums. It costs a whopping $19.00 per person and it covers all five museums. If you haven't been there you should go at least once in your lifetime. In the complex is the Cody Firearms Museum which has on the order of about 7,000 rare and modern firearms on display, all of which are in excellent condition. They have flintlocks from the French and Indian War, The Revolutionary War, Spanish American War, War of 1812, the Civil War and firearms from every major war thereafter up through modern warfare. Yes, they have Gatling guns, machine guns and submachine guns. What they don't have on open display they have in slide out drawers for revolvers and slide out rifle displays, I was there the last week of August and let me tell you it was nothing short of jaw dropping the firearms they had there. if you love rare firearms and modern weaponry like we all do, you owe it to yourself to see that place. A fellow that I met there during lunch told me that he had been to the Remington Arms Museum (disclosure: I have not) and he said it did not hold a candle to the Cody Firearms Museum. If you have a rare firearm that you don't know where it was made that is the top place in the country to research firearms I am told.
To make it even sweeter, they have an excellent Plains Indian Museum, the Draper Museum of Natural History with assorted big game animals of the west, the Whitney Western Art Museum, and the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum-all top notch and it is a Smithsonian Institute affiliate. If you haven't been there, go there. You will thank me later. Do that the first day of your trip, you can then hit Yellowstone the next few days. I throw this out to our forum because I never knew this place existed and then when I found out about it, I had to go see it and I am so glad that I did!
To make it even sweeter, they have an excellent Plains Indian Museum, the Draper Museum of Natural History with assorted big game animals of the west, the Whitney Western Art Museum, and the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum-all top notch and it is a Smithsonian Institute affiliate. If you haven't been there, go there. You will thank me later. Do that the first day of your trip, you can then hit Yellowstone the next few days. I throw this out to our forum because I never knew this place existed and then when I found out about it, I had to go see it and I am so glad that I did!
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