Aug-2006 Cont'd

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Cody, Wyoming......is the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park, with it's roaming bison, elk, deer, and sheep as well as it's world-renown fishing streams. Cody was home to Wild Bill Cody and his famous Wild West Show, and then there are the...rodeos!! Here are a few highlights of our stay in Cody, Wyoming......

We stayed about 30 miles east of the entrance to Yellowstone at Yellowstone Valley Inn & RV Park. Don fished the Firehole River and caught a couple of nice rainbow trout. His comment...mighty fine fishing! I had time to catch up on my reading while recovering from an illness.

Buffalo Bill Historical Center, located in Cody, consists of five individual displays
whic include the plains Indians, Buffalo Bill Cody's museum, guns and firearms,
western history, and western art.

Of coarse we couldn't leave Cody, Wyoming without taking in their world-famous rodeo. Rodeos take place 7 days a week during July and August. Seated in the Buzzard's Roost, just above the pens, made the bull-riding, bronco-riding, calf-roping, much more exciting.

We visited Butte, Montana, a town rich in silver, copper and gold mining history. Thousands of immigrants, many of which were Irish, came to the U.S. hoping for a more peaceful life free from religous persecution, and to seek their fortune or to just earn a decent living in the mines to provide for their families. We thoroughly enjoyed an Irish-comedy-musical held in a little church at the World Museum of Mining in uptown Butte. The play, "The Days the Devil Danced in Dublin Gulch," made us more aware of the terrible treatment Irish-Catholics were given in their homeland and how dangerous and exhausting it was working in the mines. But mostly we just enjoyed the music and entertainment!