Well once again I seem to have lost the post I was writing yesterday.  Maybe eventually I will become proficient at this blog thing or NOT!  Thursday afternoon and evening my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Dave and Cathy Paullin, my nephrew, David and I drove to Buffalo, Wyoming, to do some sightseeing and have dinner and attend the local jam fest at the Occidental Hotel.  Buffalo is about 30 miles from Sheridan.
       The following pictures were suppose to be at the end of this blog entry but alas, here they are, for your viewing pleasure. :-))

                                      The musicians at the Thursday night jam fest.

                                            Sign on front of bar at The Occidental.

                          Wall mural on a building across from Occiendental Hotel.

Guess who?

Cathy, Dave and nephrew David sitting in lobby of hotel.

Bar of Occidental Hotel.  In the back is where "jam fest" occurs.

It appears that Margaret Smith was long time propretress.

A look inside one of the hotel rooms.

       Buffalo is a small, rustic, western town with a population of less than 5,000.  The town is most noted for the Occidental Hotel which has been in existence since 1879.  It has served as host to a number of famous people such as Hubert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt,  Butch Cassidy and Owen Wister. Owen Wister was the author of the 1902 classic, The Virginian.   Mr. Wister was reported to have hung out at the bar in the hotel, observing everything and everybody, from local ranch hands to outlaws.  It is from these observations, the story goes, that he developed the characters for his book.
       After a delicious dinner at The Occidental Hotel, we moved into the bar where the local musicians gather every Thursday evening for a "jam fest" of blue grass/country music. Anyone was welcome to join them and there was around 8 or 9 musicians to start but before the evening ended 17 gathered to play guitars,  banjos,  mandolins,  fiddles, bass fiddle and harmonica.  The youngest being a 10 y/o girl playing a fiddle, but most looked to be over 60.  This was definitely the highlight to the day!