Historic Tours

Hotel Tours: $10, 2 p.m. or by Reservation.

Historic Fashion Gallery: $5, by Stopping by Lobby Desk or Reservation.

Call: 307-684-0451

Currently on Exhibit in the Fashion Gallery:

‘Flappers to Fringe,’ vintage women’s clothing of the 1920s-1970s. Tours are self-guided with a host on-site. Guided tours led by the Curator are available on a limited basis for groups of 10 or more and must be scheduled in advance by calling the hotel. The gallery, located in the historic Virginian Restaurant, can also be reserved for special dining by calling the hotel.

Hotel Tours

Start in the lobby and include the historically restored suites and rooms, individually decorated with antiques, many of which are original to the Occidental, and ends in the legendary Saloon. Visitors taking the tour will be walking in the footsteps of famous people of the Old West who stopped by for a meal, a drink or an overnight stay. Among them, were legendary frontiersmen and women, like bison hunter and showman Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane, Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, cattle detective and killer Tom Horn, frontier sheriffs Frank Canton and Red Angus, outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who’s Hole-in-the-Wall hideout was nearby, and author’s Ernest Hemingway and Owen Wister, who wrote The Virginian, for which the hotel’s restaurant is named.

*If your group is larger than 10 guests we would be happy to accommodate you by providing you with two or more tours.

Historic Fashion Gallery Tour

Presents more than 3,000 artifacts of women’s clothing, along with accessories, toiletries and household items, from the 1920s-1970s through the exhibit, “Flappers to Fringe,” featuring the custom collection of Leslie Drollinger Stratmoen of Riverton, Wyoming, who is a performer, costumer and fashion historian. The clothing is presented in six life-sized dioramas, to represent each decade, that include a female mannequin with her steamer trunk, staged as if she’s a fashionable young lady of the day arriving at the hotel and getting ready for an event. The exhibit and accompanying pamphlet tell the story of how people, places and events influenced what women wore, why hemlines rose and fell and silhouettes changed through the years and how wartime rationing altered the fashion industry in the United States.

The ”Flappers to Fringe” exhibit is located in the hotel’s Women’s History Gallery of 20th Century Fashion as part of the Museum of the Occidental Hotel, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and is made possible in part by the Wyoming Arts Council, Wyoming Humanities and the Johnson County Tourism Association.