Native American women used whatever materials they had to create objects. Hunter Old Elk, the curatorial assistant of the Plains Indian Museum, came across a very square, beaded box. The […]
Museum Minute: Zoroaster Peak
Thomas Moran was one of the artist documenting the expansion to the West. He was on the first formal expedition in 1871 to Yellowstone country to document the geological wonders […]
Museum Minute: The American Cheetah
The American Cheetah is a prehistoric mammal that roamed Northern Wyoming in the Miocene and the Pleistocene Epochs. The American Cheetah is thought to be the driving evolutionary force responsible […]
Museum Minute: Buffalo Bill’s Winchester Carbine
There are stories, which pass through hearsay but one can never be sure if the story is completely true. The Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the […]
Museum Minute: Jennings Rifle
The earliest known reference to the Winchester Arms Collection is a letter from Oliver Winchester to R.S. Lawrence in 1871. Oliver Winchester asked to have the Jennings rifle for his […]
Albert Bierstadt: A Conservationist
Albert Bierstadt—He’s a late 19th-century artist, most well-known for his majestic landscape paintings of the Wind River Range, Yellowstone, and the American West. But there’s more to him than paintings […]