Stories of the American West echo throughout the Black to Yellow region, home to kaleidoscopic landscapes and iconic sights. During your journey from northeast Wyoming’s Black Hills to Yellowstone, discover geologic marvels, dense evergreen forests and sprawling prairielands. Step into the past to meet larger-than-life characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, and find out what life was like in Wyoming during different periods in history.
 

Black Hills

Explore the history of the Vore Buffalo Jump near Sundance, Wyoming, and gain insight into how this natural sinkhole was used as a buffalo trap by Plains Indian tribes. A visit to the Aladdin General Store in Aladdin, Wyoming, offers a step back in time with its 1896 charm, offering groceries, supplies, Western wear, and antiques. Witness the majesty of Devils Tower National Monument near Hulett & Sundance, a 1,267-foot striated rock tower that gained fame as a filming site for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." In Gillette, Wyoming, the Frontier Auto Museum beckons with its antique shop, old-time general store, and car museum showcasing classic cars and transportation memorabilia.

Cowboy Culture and History

The legacy of legendary rodeo cowboy and country musician Chris LeDoux, immortalized in a sculpture titled Good Ride Cowboy at Chris LeDoux Memorial Park in Kaycee, where he lived on a ranch with his family. In Buffalo, browse the impressive personal collection of Jim Gatchell, a local pharmacist and historian who served settlers, frontiersmen, and members of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes in the early 1900s at the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum. Then, in Sheridan, experience the WYO Theater, established in 1923 as one of Wyoming's first vaudeville theaters and now the state's oldest still in operation, bringing professional music, dance, and theater to historic downtown.

Aviation and Bighorn Basin

Planes on display, including Privateer tankers used as firebombers and maritime patrol aircraft, await at the Museum of Flight & Aerial Firefighting in Greybull, Wyoming. In Worland, Wyoming, the Washakie Museum & Cultural Center portrays the relationship between the historic inhabitants of the Bighorn Basin and their environment with exhibits on paleontology, archaeology, and early settlements. Indulge in the artisan confections of Meeteetse Chocolatier in Meeteetse, Wyoming, where saddle bronc rider and cowboy turned chocolatier Tim Kellogg creates exquisite truffle flavors like prickly pear cactus and Wyoming Whiskey.

Cody and Yellowstone

Immerse yourself in the natural and cultural history and art of the region at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, home to five different institutions in one complex: the Plains Indian, Buffalo Bill, Draper Natural History, Whitney Western Art, and Cody Firearms museums. Finally, approach the unparalleled natural beauty of Yellowstone National Park via the East Entrance, near Cody, Wyoming.

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