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Cody,
Wyoming
Take in an art museum and go to a rodeo, all in
one day
From the April 22, 2002 Issue of New York
New
Yorkers may consider themselves the kind of people that take no bull,
but the residents of Cody, Wyoming, not only take it, they jump on
its back, ride it, and call it the "Cody Nite Rodeo." After an evening
of calf roping, barrel racing, and bull riding, sidle up to some real
cowboys at the bar of the Irma Hotel, built in 1902. From there, head
to Cassie's Supper Club and Dance Hall, a former whorehouse with line
dancing, wagon wheels, and stuffed moose heads. Later, as the cowboys
mosey on home, settle onto the porch of your hand-peeled log cabin
at DNR Ranch and listen to the crickets. In the morning, polish your
rhinestone belt, saddle up a horse, and hit the trails to look for
bears and moose, but don't dare miss the one thing Cody has that no
other town in America can offer: a world-class museum of Western art,
packed with more than 200 works by Frederick Remington. And that's
no bull.
-- AARON RASMUSSEN
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Details
Delta flies nonstop from JFK to Salt Lake City, then a quick
hop to Cody (800-221-1212); Cody Nite Rodeo (800-207-0744; 6/1�8/31;
$12�$14 for adults, $6 for kids); Irma Hotel (800-745-irma);
Cassie's Supper Club and Dance Hall (307-527-5500); Buffalo
Bill Historical Center (307-587-4771); DNR Ranch at Rand Creek
(cabins start at $94.50; 888-41creek or DNRRanch.com;
open May to September).
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Photograph: Friends of Rodeo |
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