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3 authentic Wild West mountain towns to visit this summer
05.05.2024 - 13:41 / thepointsguy.com
Peering up at the snow-laced peaks hemming in the mountain town of Crested Butte, Colorado, it's hard to believe more than 1,400 people once crowded into this long narrow valley 8,885 feet up in the Colorado Rockies in the mid-1800s, weathering the winter in tents and shanties.
Settlers in this area survived a series of booms and busts that left the town barely hanging on by the time the first ski run was built in the early 1960s.
The tenacious spirit of those early pioneers is encapsulated in a local nickname: the Town That Wouldn't Die. It also describes the spirit enlivening many of the West's former pioneer towns. These spots have reinvented themselves as outdoor destinations that particularly shine in summer, showing travelers that going back in time just might be one of the best ways to get away from it all.
Here are three towns that preserve and celebrate their history, and truly turn up the fun and entertainment in summer to give visitors a true Wild West experience.
Shake off its modern trappings and Cody, Wyoming, looks like the Wild West town of every cowboy shoot-'em-up.
That's no accident. In fact, Cody was actually founded by showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody in the late 19th century to establish a real-life destination for visitors to experience the horsemanship and saloon-door duels they'd seen in his Wild West shows.
There was money to be made marketing the mythology of the wide open range, he knew, but it had to feel authentic, and Cody still does.
Frontier fans make a beeline for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The center houses the Buffalo Bill Museum, which delves into the fascinating life story of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody who started riding for the Pony Express at the age of 14 and went on to worldwide fame. The center is also the site of several other worthwhile collections including the Plains Indian Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum and the Cody Firearms Museum.
Next stop on the cowboy odyssey is Old Trail Town, a sprawling assortment of 26 historic buildings rescued and assembled from surrounding ghost towns. Stroll the wooden boardwalks and duck into the rough, plank-sided shops, offices and public buildings, and you'll feel like you should be decked out in a prairie bonnet or leather vest.
Don't miss the saloon and Hole-in-the-Wall cabin featured in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" or the grave of legendary mountain man Jeremiah Johnson in the cemetery. By Western Hands, both store and historic gallery, preserves and displays artisan leatherwork, carved wooden furniture and other traditional handicrafts of the plains and prairie.
Twenty minutes northeast of town, Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American Confinement Site, a national historic landmark,
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