Legends Bookstore hosted its grand opening July 9 in downtown Cody, Wyo. Owner Teresa Muhic told the Enterprise she was looking for a new way to allocate her time and assets and thought a bookstore would fill a niche in the city. Legends will also incorporate a coffee bar, which is currently under construction, sometime next month.
"My goal is to provide a place for information and a place for leisure and enjoyment and a place for ideas," she said. "More of a destination, not just a shop. Find a chair and plop yourself and just while away some time.... I retired a couple years ago and part of the reason I retired is so I could do other things I wanted to do. A goal I had was to start a business so I had been looking around for ideas and one day got it in my head that when we lost the [Cody] Newsstand a town our size needs a bookstore. I did research and latched onto that idea and ran with it."
Muhic also noted that Legends is "the only true bookstore within about 60 miles. We had a couple come over from Worland, because Worland doesn't have a bookstore.... They came over specifically because they are readers and they wanted to buy some books. I think we fill a need in the larger Big Horn Basin community."
