After a stroll around the town to get our bearings, we retired to a glass of Wine and a Beer to plan the rest of the week.

The first thing that caught our eye was a one day Cowboy Event the very next morning in the little Cowboy Town of Meeteetse, about 30 miles South of Cody.

So we decided to go and see what that was all about and we found out later that Meeteetse means ‘Meeting Place’ in Shoshone and the run took us through some very wide open spaces with historic markers along the way.

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When we got there the event had not started so we had a drink and spoke to some natives of the town who told us that it was an annual competition between working Cowboys from the surrounding ranches – brilliant – then we spent a short while looking around the small town centre – notice the wooden boardwalks in the phones below!

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There were 7 teams of 5 Cowboys (and Cowgirls) competing in tasks that they would face on a working ranch, with prizes for the best teams.

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It even included Milking Wild Cattle, absolutely chaotic, with Cowboys and Girls being tossed all over the place and trampled as they tried to milk the wild cows.

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Off back to Cody we went before it was over as we were going into the town that evening and had to take Millie back and walk and feed her – we do spoil that girl.

After seeing to Millie, we wondered into town and found ourselves in the middle of a gun battle in the street!!!!!!!

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Fortunately, it was a re-enactment of a street gunfight, between the good guys, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok  and Wyatt Earp and the bad guys, Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid and Johnny Ringo!

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Naturally, the good guys won, but it was a close run thing!

After that frightening experience we retired into the Irma Inn behind us to have a drink at the bar donated to Buffalo Bill by Queen Victoria after she had seen his wild west show in London.

Sunday saw more exploring and a trip to the Old Trail Town, where actual buildings with known history have been brought together to form a small town on the site of the original Cody town site of 1895. 

Just a few of the many examples;

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Monday, our last full day in Cody was spent first in the Buffalo Bill Centre of the West – a fantastic place with 5 museums all rolled into one and interconnected, The Buffalo Bill Museum, The Cody Firearms Museum, The Plains Indians Museum, The Whitney Western Art Museum and The Draper Natural History Museum.

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It took us 4 hours to explore it and we could have stayed longer but we had to get back to make sure Millie was ok – as usual she was and we all chilled out with wine, beer and water (and treats) for Millie!

Tomorrow morning we were setting off to Montana to visit the Battle of Little Bighorn Battlefield and surrounding area for a few days.

Ok Millie stop squeaking, we are only doing a small catch up whilst you are snoozing, you have to let us do some of the blogs, alright, alright, alright, stop squeaking, look we are signing of right now – there done!