Buffalo Bill Cody founded the Irma Hotel in 1902, calling it “just the sweetest hotel that ever was.” Located in Cody, Wyoming, the town that the legendary showman helped establish in 1895, the Irma was named for his youngest daughter. Wanna-be performers often tried out for Cody’s Wild West Show in the vacant lots west of the hotel. Many of those landing jobs undoubtedly celebrated their good fortune at the Irma’s famous cherrywood bar, which Britain’s Queen Victoria had presented


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