In the spring of 1967, work began to collect the historic buildings and artefacts that dotted the landscape of the Wyoming frontier, and relocate them to the town of Cody (where we are staying), where they would be preserved for future generations as part of an Old Trail Town exhibition.

From remote locations in Wyoming and Montana, the historic buildings were carefully disassembled, moved and reassembled by a local historian and his friends.

The Rivers Saloon built in 1888. It was frequented by Butch Cassidy, Blind Bill Hoolihan and many other outlaws, cowboys and colourful characters of the old west. Bullet holes dot the door!

Jeremiah “Liver-Eating” Johnston’s remains were relocated to Old Trail Town in June 1974 where Hollywood actor and director Robert Redford was a pallbearer. Redford portrayed Jeremiah Johnson in the 1972 American western film. Historical records show Johnston’s surname spelt with and without the “t.”

Johnston acquired his nickname after pursuing a vendetta against the Crow Indian tribe who had killed his wife, a member of the Flathead American Indian tribe. Allegedly, he killed, scalped and cut out and ate the livers of over 300 Crow Indians!

Mud Spring Cabin built in 1897. Used by Kid Curry and the Sundance Kid as a hide-out before they attempted to rob the Red Lodge Bank in Red Lodge, Montana.