Long before TV shows CSI or Law & Order, or real agencies like the FBI, NSA, or CIA, there was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA). Founded in 1850 by […]
Sharp-dressed man? It’s Buffalo Bill
Gold watch, diamond ring:I ain’t missin’ not a single thing.And cufflinks, stick pin—When I step out I’m gonna do you in.They come runnin’ just as fast as they can,‘Cuz every […]
Wild West Posters: 19th Century Billboards
This week I learned about historic printing—processes of a hundred years ago or so. Mike Parker, printer, historian, and presenter at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, taught me […]
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Beantown
In Last of the Great Scouts, a biography of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody penned by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, she writes about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West’s visit to […]
Bill Nye’s Cowboy Scourge, 1887
Popular humorist Bill Nye (1850 – 1896), who also founded the Daily Boomerang in Laramie, Wyoming, worried about Buffalo Bill’s sway over youth. Writing in the New York World October […]
Museum Interpretation: What does it all mean?
We here at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West have our work cut out for us. With a subject as broad as the American West, we understand that you […]
