Buffalo gets it's name

How the city of Buffalo became the city of Buffalo

By

Butch the Gospel Truth Carr

    Ed O’Malley, Charles Buell and a few other locals, were sitting around the Pot Belly Stove in the Lone Starr Saloon in the Accidental Hotel contemplating the name for the settlement that was growing up along Clear Creek. More and more settlers where moving into the area and they felt a need for some kind of identity.

     Now the Accidental was called the Accidental because it would be an accident if the proprietor, “Thumbs McGurk” got your order right. “Thumbs” was the type of guy who thinks a Stock Tip is advice on raising cattle. He also tried investing money into real-estate until he discovered Sherlock Holms wasn’t an up scale Housing Project outside of Fort McKinney.

Now later the Accidental was renamed the “Occidental” when the local News Paper editor “Oops McGurk” Thumb’s brother, lost all the Capital  “A’s” for his  printing press, and had to substitute “O” in his advertising page.

But getting back to our hero’s at the Lone Starr, after much arguing and many beers later it was finally decided to draw names from a hat. The first name they drew from the hat was 6 7/8. ” Why that can’t be right”!!! Some one shouted, so they draw again. This time they came up with “STETSON”. So the newly formed town council dub us ‘Stetson Wyoming’. It wasn’t until later on when they were notifying the state capital of there decision that “Oops McGurk” got mixed up with the new town name and the Bar menu. Buffalo meat was for supper that night. 

You might say our founding fathers had to eat their hat, and call the town Buffalo.