I’ve encountered Buffalo Bill in Colorado where he is buried and last year in Cody, Wyoming at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (see the Buffalo Bill post). This year we’re back to the Center again.
The firearms museum (one of the five museums here) has been completely remodeled since our last visit. I didn’t find the Watermelon Patch Gun from our last visit. The timeline was new and very interesting but impossible to photograph at 100 feet long. The early gun manufacturing equipment is still there so I’ll treat you to more photos from that section.
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- Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
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- Celebrating the Wild West Show.
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- Vulture.
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- National bird.
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- Gatlin gun from 1875.
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- Thompson submachine gun (called a “Tommy Gun” in the old gangster movies). This one was used in a NYC bank robbery, but jammed.
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- Zane Grey’s Winchester from 1895. If you have not read his Riders of the Purple Sage you are missing THE classical Western.
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- An employee time clock by IBM.
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- Multi-spindle drill press driven from a line shaft.
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- The factory. Henry Ford spent weeks at the gun factory studying the assembly line. Guess he did not originate the assembly line.
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- Gun designer’s drafting set used from 1870-1875. Not that different from mine from 1966.
