This was the big day of attending the Buffalo Bill Museum. The museum features over 3000 sq. ft. of exhibit space focusing on his life, times, and the legacy of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. They did a great job of telling the story of Buffalo Bill and how his legacy developed. The exhibits included rare and never-before-seen artifacts including a Stetson hat worn by Buffalo Bill at the last performance before his death. Other artifacts included a peace pipe that belonged to Sitting Bull and the head of the last buffalo shot by Buffalo Bill. Twenty thousand people attended Buffalo Bill's burial on Lookout Mountain in 1917.
The kids did pretty good until we got to the firearms. They lasted about 20 minutes and then they melted. We forced them to stay a bit longer and then decided to go feed them and go to Buffalo Bill Dam and then the big boys could go back and spend more time looking at the guns.
The Dam was pretty impressive. The best part was driving through the tunnels right before it. When we were heading back Eric and Kyle decided it would be fun to rev of their engines and roll down the windows and see how loud it would be driving through the tunnel. It freaked me out. We went back to camp and the boys went back to the museum.
Later that night we went back into town to go to street gun show. It was pretty entertaining.
History of Buffalo Bill from Wikepedia:
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became famous for the shows he organized with cowboy themes, which he toured in Great Britain and Europe as well as the United States.
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