ROADS

Buffalo is the County Seat of Johnson County. All roads lead to Buffalo! I-90 goes west from Rapid City, SD and at Buffalo, WY turns north to continue on to Billings, Montana. I-25 begins at Buffalo (and I-90) and goes south to Las Cruces, NM. Wyoming state Highway 16 runs through Buffalo. In the 4,175 square miles, there are two incorporated towns, Buffalo and Kaycee. There are two additional communities with a USPO, Linch and Saddlestring. Located on the banks of Clear Creek, Buffalo is at the east foot of the Big Horn Mountains. Our "home" town!

GATCHELL MUSEUM

Jim Gatchell died 5 June 1954. His family donated the collection, which he had gathered and housed in his Main Street drug store. The County donated the land and the building funds were donated. The Johnson County Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum opened in June of 1957. In 1991 the Gatchell Museum Board of Trustees, Inc. was formed. This is a non-profit (IRS 501 (c)(3)) Wyoming coporation which serves as a support foundation for the museum. In 1989 the Museum began conversion work on the adjacent building, which had been built as a Carneige Library in the early 1900s.

NATE CHAMPION

Today, 24 June 2009, they installed the D. Michael Thomas bronze sculpture of Nate Champion north of the Gatchell Museum complex on Fort Street, in Buffalo, WY. Covered with a canvas tarp, the imposing sculpture will remain hidden until the formal dedication to be held at Noon on Saturday, June 27, 2009, during Living History Days.

Nate Champion was born 29 September 1857 near Round Rock, Texas. He was listed as a rustler by the WYOMING STOCKGROWERS in the early 1890s. And he and a fellow cowboy, Reuben "Nick" Ray were killed at the KC cabin on April 9, 1892, by the Invaders.