Check out their official site for a history and description of the place. We had an unbelievable time there!
The old hotel is huge, and it is crammed with great old relics, and store front set ups.
This is easily one of the best and most complete museums relating to the Old West. It is set up nicely and well maintained. The building is old, but you can tell they carefully keep the repairs up. I saw no physical flaws in the place.My favorite displays showed the old hotels very direct links to Lincoln and Booth both.
The building was an early part of the Pony Express too, and it seems the riders would actually ride their horses inside! There is a great set up showing an early mail area, noting that a piece of mail postmarked from the Patee sold for $460,000!
Another interesting and odd exhibit is a display showing actual weapons used in murders commited in the area.I could easily go on and on about all of the weird and amazing displays in this museum...
http://www.ponyexpressjessejames.com/patee/
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