Cody Firearms Museum
The Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses over 7,000 historically significant firearms with more than 30,000 firearms-related artifacts. We seek to provide every visitor – from gun aficionados, to firearms novices, to those without previous firearms experience – with a unique educational opportunity. This museum is more than just guns; firearms help inform the story of the West, the story of gun cultures, and the story of people.
Why These Objects? A Closer Look at the Buffalo Nation Spotlights
As the opening of the Buffalo Nation spotlights approaches, a deceptively simple question emerges: why these objects? What makes them “spotlights,” and…
An Ordinary Man, an Extraordinary Legacy: Audie Murphy and the Colt Bisley
I may be branded by war, but I will not be defeated by it.” ― Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back Audie Murphy’s 1905…
Echoes of the Painted West: John Clymer’s Gold Train
Gold in the Hills! Colonel Mulberry Sellers in Mark Twain’s satirical novel The American Claimant prophetically decreed, “There’s gold in them thar…
An Unsung Hero of Firearms Manufacturing
Following the American Civil War, large scale firearms manufacturing companies Winchester, Colt, Smith and Wesson, and Remington drove demand by creating niche…
What a Paris-made firearm can tell us about Winchester’s founder
Later in life William F. Cody hunted often outside of Yellowstone using a Winchester rifle A Museum Minute By Olivia WeitzWyoming Public…
The pistol that took shooting sports athlete Julie Golob around the world
The pistol that took shooting sports athlete Julie Golob around the world A Museum Minute By Olivia WeitzWyoming Public MediaAugust 2, 2024…