The Best Museums

Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody, WY; tel. 307/587-4771): An art museum, a firearm gallery, the memorabilia of the West's great showman, and exhibits about the Plains Indians comprise the finest museum in the Rocky Mountains.

National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (Casper, WY; tel. 307/261-7700): This excellent facility uses state-of-the-art exhibits to give us modern travelers an idea of what life on the "road" was like to the emigrants who passed through here in the mid-1800s on the Oregon, Mormon, California, and Pony Express trails.