[Headline Missing]Buffalo Bill Remembered
In 1908 and 1909 my father was foreman of a ranch 30 miles from Cody that belonged to Buffalo Bill's sister. The sister ran the Irma Hotel in Cody, where two of my father's brothers worked.</br></br>Buffalo Bill would bring hunting parties out to the ranch for a hunt, which my father would guide. Buffalo Bill would ask my mother for a drink. She had no drink in the house, so she gave him weakened sweetened vinegar, which he endured.</br></br>In 1937, when some girlfriends and I were on a trip West, we went to Cody, then to Yellowstone Park. When we stopped at the Shoshone Dam on the way, I looked at the far horizon, trying to imagine my young mother with a new baby in those "wild" surroundings. Mildred L. Askegaard Arlington</br></br>As a former Cody resident, I found the article on "The Cowboy Town of Cody" in the July 1 Travel section well done, to a point. That point was the discussion of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.</br></br>This wonderful museum is a $25 or $30 million edifice situated in a town of 6,500 people. There is not a single cent of tax money invested in it-only donations and entrance fees. The complex has four museums occupying a good city block of land with a parking lot and a beautiful Indian meeting ground.