Buffalo, Wyoming

Buffalo, WY is another western town with lots of history.  The Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, originally built in the late 1800's to serve travelers of the Bozeman Trail, has hosted many notorious guests over the years.  Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James and the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, Tom Horn, Teddy Roosevelt, President Herbert Hoover and Ernest Hemingway are only a few.

 Bullet holes in the walls and ceiling of the hotel saloon attest to the wild days in town and characters that lived there.

Both Buffalo and Kaycee, WY (just south of Buffalo) had great western history museums, with lots of stories and artifacts from the area.  The Johnson County Cattle Wars, TA Ranch gunfight, Hole-in-the Wall hideout, the Wagon Box Fight, Fort Phil Kearny, Fetterman Battlefield, Dull Knife Battle...all places and events in the history of these towns along the Bighorn Mountains.

If you are a fan of "Longmire" series on either A&E Television or Netflix, or have read novels by author Craig Johnson, the town of Buffalo may seem familiar.  Johnson loosely bases his stories on events and characters from this Wyoming town.

P.S. a bit of Wyoming trivia: according to the host at Buffalo's Visitor Center...there are more antelope in Wyoming than people! (I'd believe it too...we saw antelope every place we drove)