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Buffalo, Wyoming

by | Jul 17, 2010 | Travel & Preservation

Buffalo, Wyoming-population 4,480-is the kind of town that rallies around its community members, even when memories are all they have left of the person. The Cowboy Saloon closed down on a June day to encourage folks to attend the unveiling of a memorial park in nearby Kaycee. Why? The park commemorates rodeo cowboy-turned-Country singer Chris LeDoux, who died of liver cancer five years ago. David Michael Thomas remembers selling feed to the singer at his store in Buffalo in the 1980s, before


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