Friday post card

The historic Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, Wyoming

 

 

As far back as 1880, in the rip-roaring days of early Wyoming,

the hotel was already known as the place to stay in northern Wyoming.

 

In the early days, many of the most famous people in the Old West stopped by the Occidental. They included "Buffalo Bill" Cody; a young Teddy Roosevelt; Tom Horn; Butch Cassidy,

the Sundance Kid and Calamity Jane.

Owen Wister, author of "The Virginian," also stayed at the Occidental.

Some of the cowboys and gunslingers Wister observed here found their way into the most famous Western novel ever written. People were sure the famous shoot-out in the novel

 occurred in front of the Occidental Hotel.

 

Mr. b was kind enough to backtrack to take this photo for me.

Of course we immediately went back to our camper

and watched the movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

 

~b