Cody, Powell have everything, including thousands of tourists

Pow! Pow! Pow! That was the sound of the explosions coming from the high-powered revolvers used by some rough-looking, tough-talking cowboy-types in front of the Irma Hotel in downtown Cody.

We were there in July and my granddaughters held their hands over their ears in shock at just how loud a high-powered pistol could be.

The Cody Gunfighters have been staging their downtown shootout six nights a week from June to September since the 1980s before big crowds in front of the historic Irma Hotel.

Earlier we had loaded up our old motor home and some of our Texas family (daughter Amber and grandd...