HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RUSS
We celebrated Russ' birthday, royally. We spent the day at the Buffalo Bill Historic Center in Cody, Wyoming, which houses five museums. Russ had made our reservations to be in Cody on his birthday, I think partly because he remembers his Grandma telling him that she had attended a Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West performance, back in the 1902-1916's period of time. We checked in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Research Library, and found that Buffalo Bill Cody and his family had even lived in the Rochester, NY, area.
We were astounded to see a photo of his son, Kit Carson Cody, taken in Rochester, NY, in 1876, when he was five years old. Shortly thereafter, Kit Carson Cody died of Scarlet Fever, and was buried in Rochester's Mount Hope Cemetery. Later in 1894 and 1904, two other of his eight children were buried there too. We had seen those three tombstones a couple of years ago, when we visited that Cemetery, and took a Sunday afternoon Cemetery Tour of significant graves. What a small world. Here we are 2,087 miles from home, and we find a historic connection, of over one hundred years ago. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show had performed 13 times in Rochester, NY, between July of 1902, and August of 1916, and once in Lyons, NY, in May, 1912, where Russ' Grandparents had once lived.
Russ and Rita
ready to Celebrate
Each red pin represents a town where
the Buffalo Bill Wild West Shows
took place. This confirmed what
Russ' Grandma had told him,
when he was a little boy.
Photo of Kit Carson Cody,
taken in Rochester, NY, c 1876.
Russ picked the Firearms Museum as our first stop. Two guns that were
significant to him were ones that he had been trained to handle during his
Army service: M-1 Garand Rifle, and the M-14 Rifle.
I wanted to see The Whitney Gallery of Western Art,
where we saw some of the following masterpieces.
T.D. Kelsey - 1997 Bronze Elk entitled
"Testing the Air".
A three dimensional painting
by Artist Larry Pinnie.
The acrylic paint was applied so thick that you
could see the lead horse coming at you.
A very exciting painting.
This piece was carved in the round,
so the three pictures were taken as I
walked around the Carving.
I was really fascinated by this piece.
Which side is your favorite?
(top, middle or bottom)
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These pictures were taken in the Buffalo Bill Museum
Russ tried on a Stetson.
Women's finery displayed in
the Buffalo Bill Museum.
That is it for now. Time to get dinner ready.
The next Chapter will cover the
Wild West Shoot Out in front of the Irma Hotel,
where we had dinner, July 10, 2012.
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