Front of rack card for the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum in Buffalo, Wyoming
Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum
From a grassroots beginning in a crowded drugstore, the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum today houses one of the most historically significant collections in the Rocky Mountain West.
- 307-684-9331
- www.jimgatchell.com
Reverse of the Jim Gatchell Museum rack card
In 1900, as the western frontier came to a close, Jim Gatchell opened a drugstore in Buffalo, Wyoming. His customers included cowboys, lawmen, settlers, cattle barons and famous army scouts. He was also a trusted friend of the region’s Native Americans, who fought in the last Indian Wars. They considered the pharmacist a “Great Medicine Man.” For more than fifty years, Gatchell cherished these friendships. In turn, he was presented with priceless artifacts of a vanishing era.
You’ll love our Museum Store which offers you Wyoming-made products. Unique jewelry and a wealth of Western history books including a selection of children’s books!
Find out about
- The Bloody Bozeman
- The Great Medicine Man
- Johnson County Cattle War
- Museum open Mid-April – Mid-October
- Museum store open all year
See our exhibit:
Almost like home…The Basque along the Big Horns
- The Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum
- PO Box 596
- 100 Fort Street, Buffalo, Wyoming
Email: jmuseum@vcn.com
Located in the heart of Buffalo on Hwy 16 West (Fort St.), the quickest and most scenic route over the Big Horn Mountains to Yellowstone.
