Marguerite House

Pinkerton Detective Agency
May 26, 2014

Pinkerton on the case

Long before TV shows CSI or Law & Order, or real agencies like the FBI, NSA, or CIA, there was the Pinkerton…

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Buffalo Bill: a sharp-dressed man
May 7, 2014

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…

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Queen Victoria
April 21, 2014

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…

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Wild West in New York
April 13, 2014

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…

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Buckeye Blake's "Peeking under the Big Top," 2006
April 6, 2014

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…

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Plains Indian Museum
March 30, 2014

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…

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