Old Trail Town Cody historic buildings
— — a frontier street pulled back together one log at a time.
Not only on a wall.
“A row of frontier-era buildings rescued, moved, and rebuilt on the ground where Cody first laid out its streets in 1895. The cabins came from the Bighorn Basin and the Sweetwater country — a saloon Butch Cassidy is said to have used, the cabin from the Hole-in-the-Wall, a small post office, a one-room schoolhouse. Out front, frontier graves in the sage, Liver-Eating Johnson among them. The street is short. The wood is dark. Nothing pretends to be anything else. from the studio
Old Trail Town Cody historic buildings, on ceramic.
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Old Trail Town sits at the western edge of Cody, on the ground William F. Cody and his partners platted as the original townsite in 1895. The collection was begun in 1967 by archaeologist Bob Edgar and his wife Terry, who moved roughly 26 frontier buildings dating from 1879 to 1901 here from sites across the Bighorn Basin and the Sweetwater country. Alongside the cabins are more than 100 horse-drawn vehicles and a small cemetery holding the reburied remains of John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, brought from Los Angeles in 1974.
The buildings are squared logs and rough-sawn plank, most of them hand-hewn before 1900 in a country with almost no milled lumber. Among them: a saloon from Meeteetse with bullet holes in the bar, the Rivers Saloon associated with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, a cabin from the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout in Johnson County, and the Crow scout Curly's small cabin from the Little Bighorn campaign. The Edgars moved each one piece by piece and reassembled it on the original townsite, which sits about 5,000 feet above sea level.
Old Trail Town is open seasonally, typically from mid-May through late September, with daily hours that run roughly 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in high summer. It sits about two miles west of downtown Cody on the Yellowstone Highway (US 14/16/20), on the road in to the East Gate of Yellowstone National Park, 52 miles further west. Admission supports the privately operated Museum of the Old West. The site is outdoors; weather in the Bighorn Basin can shift quickly, and most cabins are viewed through their doorways rather than entered.