Old Trail Town

Bob Edgar grew up in the Bighorn Basin with a taste for archaeology and watched the old log buildings of the region sag and vanish. In the spring of 1967 he began taking them apart, hauling them to Cody and putting them back together on the ground where Buffalo Bill and his partners had laid out the first townsite of Cody City in 1895. The collection grew to some twenty-six buildings dated from 1879 to 1901, gathered from remote places across Wyoming and Montana.

Among them is an 1883 cabin from the Hole-in-the-Wall country on Buffalo Creek, used as a meeting place by Butch Cassidy's gang, a saloon the gang drank in, and a cabin that sheltered Kid Curry and the Sundance Kid in 1897 before their attempt on the bank at Red Lodge. Curley's cabin, from 1895, belonged to the Apsáalooke scout who rode with the Seventh Cavalry to the Little Bighorn in 1876.

The site also keeps about a hundred horse-drawn vehicles and a small cemetery, where the mountain man John Johnston was reburied in 1974, a story told at his cabin in Red Lodge. It is open from mid-May through September.