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This is not an aged buffalo. This is a buffalo sporting a frosty hair-do on an early autumn morning in Yellowstone National Park.
I wish I could bring you the sound from this dragon!
To be continued.
Cody, Wyoming is only 52 miles from the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Hubby and I stayed in Cody for all three of the days that we visited the park.
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We saw elk at Mammoth Village and Fort Yellowstone:
Closer look:
Yes, folks, that really is a black bear…guess we should invest in a zoom lens:
We saw lots of pronghorn antelope and buffalo in the beautiful Lamar Valley:
We drove through Clark Canyon and Dead Indian Pass. This pass is amazingly beautiful…well worth the drive! We also learned of the flight of the Nez Perce here…unbelievable!
As we were coming down the other side of the pass, we saw this mountain:
We later learned that it is called Heart Mountain. At the base of this mountain was a Japanese American confinement camp (a concentration camp used for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII). There is an interpretative center there. Had we known, we would have visited the site.
To be continued.
For previous posts sharing my visit to this fantastic museum complex, click here:
Buffalo Bill Center of the West Introduction
Buffalo Bill Center of the West 2
Buffalo Bill Center of the West 3
Buffalo Bill Center of the West 4
Buffalo Bill Center of the West 5
Buffalo Bill Center of the West 6
Buffalo Bill Center of the West 7
Continuing on:
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The everyday dress:
When two cultures meet:
I have shared a lot from The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, but there is so much more to see. Again, I highly recommend visiting this fantastic complex of museums that contains a research library featuring art and artifacts of the American West, and includes the Draper Natural History Museum, the Plains Indian Museum, the Cody Firearms Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, and the Buffalo Bill Museum.
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