Alpine Mountain Man and Cody Wild West Shows

We only do five shows a year. Two are in Texas, and the biggest shows are in Wyoming. Our Wyoming shows take up three consecutive weekends and so we haven’t had a chance to update our blog. The Wyoming shows are at Alpine, Wyoming, Cody Wyoming, and a small one-day show at the Barn in our RV park.

The Aline Mountain Man Days Show highlights the Native American and Fur Trappers that helped to explore the West. The Native people come form many tribes and dance as the drums beat. The Women Dance and then the children in their beautiful colorful leather, feather, and colorful trade blankets. The children dance in very colorful costumes and seem to twirl like birds with their wings flying, (unfortunately my videos are not sending to our email as they are too large.

The fur trappers wear authentic period costumes which each participant makes. Even the children wear their costumes and some even bring muskrat skins that they have proudly tanned. There are competitions but we didn’t get to watch them as we are trying to sell our Wyoming jade, turquoise, opals, and other fossil and semi-precious stones. The Alpine Show Is three days long and then we have a short break of two days before we head to Cody Wyoming. The reason we have no rest is because it is impossible to get a campsite in the town. Luckily there is a Sate Park Nearby and so we reserved a spot for seven days, three days before the show.

Arriving at our campsite we quickly discovered our campground site was plagued by a family of black billed magpies, (remember Heckle and Jeckle cartoons).

They made cooking almost impossible. Forgetting something every time, I walked back to the camper only to have them land on the table and steal food. We both had to be outside, or the birds would make another raid. Even with the pesty birds we enjoyed a meal along the beautiful lake.

I remembered when our Dad would take us camping and even cook our meals. What happy times they were. Yellowstone National Park was to the west, and we were surrounded by Sheep Mountain, Cedar Mountain, and Rattlesnake Mountain, (some of our jewelry is mined from these peaks).

Besdies the show the Cody Event has three days of parades, and what parades. The largest one was on the fourth of July and include warriors from the nearby Indian Reservations, a unti of the Mounted Marine Regiment from near Washington DC,

and a unit of Hotshot Firefighters, (my brother Mike spent one summer as a member of a federal firre fighting crew in Washinton State),

As we had several extra days before the show, we decided to take two day trips, one along the South Fork of the Shoshone and another traveling by Chief Joseph Highway. These were both beautiful trips and so we took lots of images, which will be in the next two blogs. Clear skies