Cheyenne
Small central plaza in Cheyenne.
The city lives up to its name of being an historic "Cowboy Town." The County has adorned the city area with giant colourful western boots.
Chris outside the Cheyenne Depot Museum.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4004 is one of eight surviving examples of the world's largest locomotives.
It was retired in 1958. Look at the couple standing by the gate to get an idea of its size.
Two fine sets of colt pistols. The handles are made of silver and gold. There is a huge display of pistols and rifles in the museum.
We viewed the privately owned Nelson Museum. Robert Nelson has collected an extraordinary amount of "Old Western" memorabilia and displays them in this museum.
This cabinet displays outfits worn by Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans.
Stetson hats, original western boots, etc displayed in this cabinet.
Robert Nelson is also an avid hunter and the museum has a large display of stuffed animals he had shot.
Here he displays many forms of Indian clothing and bead ware. The older pieces are highly sought by American collectors and they sell for enormous prices.
Laramie
Whilst in Laramie we toured the Wyoming Territorial Prison.
The building is circa 1872 and was run as a prison until 1903.
The prison has a claim to fame of housing Butch Cassidy for several years.
Photo of Butch Cassidy (lower right) and "The Wild Bunch"
Remember the huge explosion when Butch and Sundance robbed the train in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". This is supposed to be the remains of the original safe found near the robbery site. There is some controversy though as the newspaper pictures of the day show a different safe.
The prison ran a successful broom factory. Their exports found their way to Japan.
Here is a volunteer showing a young boy the art of broom making.
Out he back was a typical rural America vista. The lovely old barn, wind pump and wagon.
Medicine Bow National Forest
From Laramie we took a detour through Medicine Bow National Forest. The road took us up to about 10500 feet and the drive was spectacular.
A serious fisherman. Dressed if full assault camouflage those unfortunate trout didn't stand a chance.
A view down a mountain river.
