| More to see on this blustery Wyoming Thursday. The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center. |
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| There were areas devoted to the various trails that came through the area heading west. There was also a short film and these scenes. This represents the California Trail. |
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| This one is the Mormon Trail. |
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| And then the Oregon Trail. Just be careful not to drown your oxen in a river crossing or die of dysentery. For anyone too young to know, that was a reference to the classic computer game The Oregon Trail. |
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 Looking down on Casper from the hill. |
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| There's that river everyone has been trying to cross. It was easy for me. There was a nice big bridge. |
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| Finally reached Buffalo. No, not that one. |
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| The Z-Bar is a bunch of small cabins, which I thought would be an interesting (and inexpensive) place to stay the night. |
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| The interior looks like a cabin. |
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| The sign on the front of the structure is impossible to read in this picture, but it says Crazy Woman Square. According to a nearby sign, the most enduring story surrounding the Crazy Woman legend was about a woman who went mad following a tragedy in her family. She was left alone to survive in the area south of town that late became known as Crazy Woman Creek. |
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| I could have stayed at the old historic Occidental Hotel, but I thought a cabin would be more fun. |
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| It used to be a wooden structure but was later rebuilt into the grand hotel it is now. Some famous visitors were Teddy Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane. |
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| Instead of staying in the hotel I got a decent buffalo burger in the Occidental Saloon. |
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| The current saloon dates back to 1908. |
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| This is as close as I would get to a bear on the trip. |
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