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.

Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s “iScout” encourages exploration on-site and online

June 1, 2015 by Nancy McClure

As part of its effort to develop innovative ways to engage audiences and deliver creative content beyond the physical space of its museums, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West […]

Buffalo Bill’s Last Stand – Points West Online

May 31, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West in Spring 1998 Buffalo Bill’s Last Stand Christine HouzeFormer Curatorial Assistant, Buffalo Bill Museum PAHASKA ISHTEMI WASHTA(The Long-haired Man May Sleep Well)— Sioux wish for […]

Gray wolf skull. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. DRA.305.71

Treasures from Our West: Gray wolf skull

May 30, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Summer 2009 Gray wolf skull Collections serve different purposes in different types of museums. Biological and paleontological specimens in natural history museums provide us […]

Horse and riders parading at Crow Fair, Crow Agency, Montana. Photo by W.H.D. Koerner, 1927. P.78.4452 (detai)

Riders of the Northern Plains and Plateau Regions – Points West Online

May 24, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 1994 Riders of the Northern Plains and Plateau Regions By Emma I. HansenCurator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum The introduction of the horse in the […]

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody is pictured here in front of his personal Wild West tent on a not-so-windy day around 1905. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.69.953

Treasures from Our West: Photograph of William F. Cody in front of Wild West tent

May 23, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine in Spring 2008 William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody in front of Wild West tent In a story that appeared in the February 20, 1946, […]

Winter in Yellowstone: ...a traffic jam?

Crafted by Nature: An Ecological Profile of the North American Bison – Points West Online

May 17, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2000 Crafted by Nature: An Ecological Profile of the North American Bison By Charles R. Preston, PhDWillis McDonald IV Senior Curator of Natural Science, […]