, 1927-06-01

the black Spaniel pup; and | climb.
ed up along Spring H%oolihan and
, Bobcat creeks looking for deer. Not
that deer are such a rarity in this
part of Wyoming, we passed a doe
and two fawns before we were over
the first rise, but so far / had not
seen them in herds. However. half
an hour later, looking down into
the pastures of the TIE ranch, we
saw literally hundreds. At first.
they were slowly moving d~on-color-
ed spots, hardly distinguishable
from the meadows, but when they
had got our scent or perhaps seen
Beans. the meadow became alive
with drifting masses of Them; and
two. nearer than the others, went
Looping off with hat peculiar stiff
legged elastic gait they have.
The TIE ranch is the old william
f. Cody-Buffalo Bill-home ranch.
1t was the final ranch he bought,
the N which he spent his last
days in Wyoming, and its interest
at this moment is enhanced by the
fact hat on July Fourth, the first
day of the Cody Stampede the Buff
falo Bill Museum will be opened.
The dedication OF the Buffalo Bill
Museum will be attended by Buffalo
Bilrs grandchildren who live in
Cody, William. Frederick and Jane
Carlow, the children of his daugh-
ter. Irma; by Clara Boal Been and
Cody Boal, the children of his
daughter Arta; and by Mrs. Gene
We've Carlow Walker and George
Walker, aunt and cousin, respec-
lively, of the Cody grandchildren.
Mrs. Walker and the Carlow child
rem live in Buffalo Bills original
home place in Cody. In Cody, also,
is the Irma Hotel. which is filled
to repletion with oil paintings,
mounted animal heads, portraits
and photographs that are memen-
toes OF the life of the great scout.
This morning l went down to the
TIE ranch with Frank on the hay
wagon. 1t is situated about three
and a half miles from the Double
L Bar on the South Fork of the
Shoshone river. John Golfer. who
was the first known white man to-
see the Shoshone, in 1907, at what
is now DeMaris Springs where there
are sulphurous yapors, gave 1t the
title of Sinking water. The South
Fork. however. has no odor but is
a purling valley stream often quite
blue In color, running rapidly be-
tween low meadows on'one side and
a high bank on tie other.
The first thing one motto, a3c
the ranch is the entrance gate. This
is the most beautiful Western
ranch gate I have ever seen. AS
usual. it is made of log bars, but
in this instance they have beer
painted a brilliant Chinese red,
which is too lovely for words
against the gray green of the sage
brush and the soft sap green of the
cottonwoods. Over the gale IS a
bleached buffalo skull with the TIE
brand as Buffalo Bill used it
scratched on the forehead. Today the
brand is Lazy TIE. Inside the gate
are. first, meadows and then tim
othy fields. with the group of ranch
buildings perhaps a quarter of al
mile up a cottonwood-lined road.
The original Buffalo Bill home
ranch house is a large. low struc-
ture of whitewashed hewn logs set
inside q white picket fence. This
fence SO unexpected in this part of
the country, makes one wonder IL
he did not have in mind his child
hood home in LeClair. Iowa. when
the ranch was designed. Like
many Western ranch houses. the
building at the TIE started with the
kitchen and then rambled off In
other directions. 1t now comprises.
besides the original kitchen. a din
Ing room, an office. a number of
bedrooms. two screened porches and
goodness knows what else. This
is the building which is being dup
Heated in Cody for the Cody Nus
eum, but by changing the proper
tons, raising the heighth of the
ceiling and making the structure of
round peeled logs instead of square
hewn ones, the character of the or
iginal has been entirely lost. The
Museum as 1t stands today looks
like pictures of Pahaska Tepee,
Buffalo Bills hunting lodge on the
North Fork. than like the original
TIE ranch building.
One other Buffalo Bill ranch
house still stands. a little one-room
cabin, also OF whitewashed logs, as
well as the old barns, feeding racks
and corrals. On IL of the barns
/ noticed a handmade iron latch.
as well as the sod roof of the early
settlers. In a shed are two of Buff
falo Bills famous Deadwood coach
es, one painted chartreuse and one
weathered almost the color of its
rusty iron supports-his persona,
Stanhops carriage and a number of
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