BUFFALO BILL

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6632, 11 June 1928, Page 9

BUFFALO BILL

MEMORIAL MUSEUM. Buffalo Bill/ (William F. Cody) is now being immortalised in his home State of Wyoming in a manner befitting the spirit, of the pioneer. The State has purchased, a tract of land upon which is being erected a duplicate of Colonel Cody’s old ranch homestead group, which is to bo a museum of pioneer Americans. The site of this museum is west of the little town of Cody at the beginning of the famous Cody Road, and located directly 'in front of Shoshone Canyon, with surrounding snow-peaked mountains. The museum will be opened on Juno 19. The log house in which Colonel Cody lived will appear exactly as he used it. The rest of the structure will be given over to the exhibition room, its fireplace of rod granite from Shoshone Canyon, its rafters of logs; a library, where frontier and pioneer literature will be assembled, and other display rooms. - vThere will bo the bunk house, corrals sheds, barns, big swinging ranch gates, piles of horns, and a well, where the amateur rancher may draw water in a real bucket, for this is the heart of the country whore the amateur rancher forgets the strain of city life in a wilderness of mountain, canyon and forest. The spot on which the museum is being built is a real bit of the old West, where Indians fought in a desperate effort to hold the Big Horn Basin.