The early 1900s branding and ranching mural and the Wardell Buffalo Trap mural depict life in the valley many years ago. Oral histories round out this look back into the past of the Green River Valley. The Plains Indian Museum, Whitney Gallery of Western Art, and Cody Firearms Museum give visitors a taste of what being a cowpoke is all about. See page 44 for more information. Old Trail Town Old Trail Town in Cody a Sturbridge Village of the West recreates an early Western settlement.
Visitors can walk through buildings and read about famous Western characters on tombstones.
Although not the world in a grain of sand, Cody's Old West Miniature Village and Museum captures just enough of the Wyoming frontier to keep even the keenest eye enthralled for hours. Complete with Native American villages, wagon trains, railroad trains, forts, soldiers, battle sights and more, the museum also includes old West memorabilia and a gift shop. Indian Arts Museum North of Jackson at the Colter Bay Visitor's Center, in Grand Teton National Park, the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum exhibits a vast collection of Native American crafts and artifacts. The two-story gallery displays everything from art to clothing to tools used by the first inhabitants of the West. Follow William H. Ashley's bull boat expedition on the Green River and John Fremont's 1842 voyage in the first inflatable raft.