Marguerite House

Buffalo Bill Combination
November 3, 2015

Buffalo Bill plastered…to a wall, that is

The Buffalo Bill Combination theatrical troupe played Jamestown, New York, on March 14, 1878. A century and a quarter later, bricks began crumbling…

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Buffalo Bill in Glasgow
October 19, 2015

Glasgow welcomes Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, August 1904

The numbers may not have rivaled those of the Beatles in Shea Stadium in 1965, or Taylor Swift in Times Square last…

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Food safety: Puck
October 7, 2015

Puck magazine: “Wit larded with malice”

From the English Punch magazine of the mid-1800s, to the Harvard Lampoon, Mad magazine, New Yorker, and the Web’s Onion, satire has…

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Judge Roy Bean Saloon
September 9, 2015

Judge Roy Bean-Law West of the Pecos

I hate to admit it, but I never believed that Judge Roy Bean was a real person. Old westerns are favorite TV…

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Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 – 1939). "Cove in Yellowstone Park," 1938. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches. Gift of Fred and Sara Machetanz. 2.82
June 14, 2015

Frank Tenney Johnson: a fatal kiss

“Frank Tenney Johnson was at the apex of his career as a painter of America’s West in December 1938 when he and…

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Buffalo Bill - The Scout touch up
May 27, 2015

Buffalo Bill’s spurs torched—on purpose.

  Sometime around 1959, Cody, Wyoming’s, iconic statue sustained a mishap due to vandals. Evidently, some nefarious ne’er-do-wells nabbed the spurs off…

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