Buffalo, Wyoming Longmire Days

We were on our way to Buffalo, Wyoming yesterday and discovered that they were having "Longmire Days", a celebration of the A&E television series set in Wyoming. We love going to the Occidental Hotel when we are in Buffalo, so we made reservations to stay the night. The bar at the Occidental (which is totally original from the old days) was packed with fans of the show and the stars of the show showed up to entertain and sign autographs. It was actually fairly entertaining, but to be honest, I have yet to make it half way through the first episode of the series. Growing up in the West and living here all my life, I thought the show was totally ridiculous! I suppose I could give it another chance, maybe it gets better as the series continues. The author of the book series that the stories are based on lives near Buffalo and he knows the area and people, but I don't think Hollywood really knows!

Anyway, enough of that, the Occidental Hotel is very old west (we stayed in Owen Wister's room that he stayed in while writing The Virginian) and should you ever be in Buffalo, go there.