Visiting the real wild west of Wyoming
Posted by: Chris Hails in Travel, Western Icons, Wyoming No Comments »Cameron Wilson gives Middle East bound travellers an insight into the heritage and top tourist destinations in Wyoming for this story on the EmiratesBusiness24|7 website:
My visit to Wyoming began in pursuit of a cattle rustler named Robert LeRoy Parker and his sidekick, Harry Longabaugh. A little more than a century ago, the pair achieved fame for carrying out a string of robberies of banks, trains and mine payrolls… Men such as these are not well-suited to prosaic names like Robert and Harry, so it was as Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid that the pair rode across the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming for a decade, beginning in 1889
Wilson’s journey takes in the Occidental Hotel in Buffalo, the five museums that make up the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming and then he moves on to nearby Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
The story ends with Wilson ruminating on the possibility that “our roguish heroes may not have died in Bolivia at all”, with Butch dying as an old man in the 1940s! A great read for a quiet Sunday.
