Saratoga Hot Springs (Wyoming)

We checked out the museum in Grand Encampment, the town next door. Riverside (where we are) has a population of 57, Encampment is 245. The town swelled to a population over 3,000 in the late 1800's due to the discovery of copper mines. Once the bottom dropped out of the copper market, most people left leaving it a ghost town.
Once again a very small town has an expansive, interesting museum with lots of old stuff to show due to the frugality and "never throw anything away" attitude of the homesteaders who started arriving in the 1870's.
General stores, saloons, carriage barns, school houses and mountain cabins were all hauled to this spot and FILLED with almost anything you can think of. There were guns from the civil war, a hearse from the 1850's, tools, food and clothing items, a couple of completely intact conestoga wagons, a two story outhouse and much much more!
There were a few things you couldn't touch but if you wore white gloves (provided) you could touch lots of things. Tomorrow night in honor of the Cowboy celebration this weekend, the Encampment Opera House is hosting a cowboy melodrama. We WILL be there!
Afterward, we drove to the nearby town of Saratoga which has a town pool (already really hot) and a super hot, hot spring. The hot spring was 128 degrees and most people (except for a reckless man who kept shouting he was from Texas and an older couple from Japan) could not put more than a foot in without screaming. Vinny did manage to get in up to his waist. There was a center rock pool in the spring called the "lobster pot" which was even hotter (???). While most people in the town don't go in much in the summer, they LOVE it in the winter where it can get to be 10 below zero.
Just a few photos of the local grocery store. The abundance of taxidermy really threw me.