Author: Nancy McClure

Nancy works in the Public Relations Department in electronic communications. Her work includes writing and updating website content, publicizing events, copy editing, working with images, and producing the e-newsletter <em>Western Wire</em>. In her spare time, Nancy enjoys photography, reading, flower gardening, and playing the flute.

Treasures from Our West: Photograph of red-headed duck

July 18, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall 2009 Gabby Barrus’s photograph of a red-headed duck, and Barrus For wildlife aficionados in northwest Wyoming, the name Gabby Barrus is synonymous […]

Icon of the American West: Golden Eagle – Points West Online

July 15, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2015 Golden eagle: Icon of the American WestThe Draper Natural History Museum’s ongoing exploration of our regional symbol and its environment By Dr. Charles R. […]

Treasures from Our West: Partial bison skeleton

July 15, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Winter 2009 The American bison (Bison bison), also known as buffalo, once ranged throughout the American West and across the Mississippi River into […]

American Bison. Ken Blackbird photo, 1996.

The Buffalo, a Symbol for Conservation – Points West Online

July 12, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine Spring 1995 The Buffalo, A Symbol for Conservation By Paul FeesFormer Ernest S. Goppert Curator, Buffalo Bill Museum Early European and American migrants West […]

Photo of Buffalo Bill at Wild Bill Hickok's grave. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.1069

Treasures from Our West: Photograph of William F. Cody at Wild Bill Hickok’s grave

July 11, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall 2008 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody at Wild Bill Hickock’s grave Outlaws of necessity brought lawmen, and in his own writings, William […]

Cabin that exhibited the Boone & Crockett collection in the Center's Cody Firearms Museum

Buffalo Bill Center of the West bids farewell to Boone and Crockett Collection

July 10, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Since 1982, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, has housed the Boone and Crockett Club’s National Collection of Heads and Horns of America, originally dedicated in […]