Downtown Buffalo today
Buffalo, Wyoming, is the county seat of Johnson County, and one of the most historic cities in Wyoming. Butch Cassidy undoubtedly walked its streets, and Owen Wister visited Buffalo, stayed at the Occidental Hotel, and based many of the characters in his novels on people he
In November of 1862, the Burlington and Missouri Railroad, which had originally planned to go through Buffalo, changed its route due to the Johnson County Range War and turned west near Ulm and came instead to Sheridan. Buffalo, at the time of the 1890 census, had a higher population than did Sherid