The museum opened on May 16th with two new displays. One display focuses on the importance of Rodeo in Kaycee, with items from local rodeo stars, including Chris Ledoux. The other new display takes up an entire fifteen-foot wall in the museum’s Bedroom Display Room and showcases local women and the personal items used by […]
OUR MISSION
To preserve, protect, and share Kaycee and southern Johnson County history in a historic building in downtown Kaycee, and through our tours and publications.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
Hoofprints of the Past Museum was founded in 1989 by a group of Kaycee volunteers in order to preserve the unique local cultural heritage of Kaycee and the surrounding countryside. That heritage includes Native Americans, the Bozeman Trail, Trappers, Traders, and Pioneers, Fort Reno, German Missionaries settlement, and the Portuguese Houses site, conflicts with natives such as the Dull Knife Battle, the Cattle Boom, Cattle Barons and Frewen Castle, the Johnson County War, the Outlaw Era, the Hole in the Wall Gang, Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, and other local outlaws.RECENT POSTS
2022 Hole in the Wall Tour a Success
Thank you to all our tour attendees and volunteers for making our annual Hole in the Wall tour a success and an enjoyable day. The weather was absolutely perfect. Thank you everyone! And for those who wanted our 34 year old recipe for coleslaw that was served at lunch, here it is: Cole Slaw for […]