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.

The Birds of the Draper Museum Raptor Experience

March 27, 2015 by Nancy McClure

The Draper Museum Raptor Experience is one of our crowd-pleasing programs. Visitors as well as staff quickly develop great affection for our birds, all of which have past injuries or […]

Great gray (Strix nebulosa) owl specimen

Treasures from Our West: Great gray owl

March 25, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Summer 2008 Great gray (Strix nebulosa) owl specimen Aristotle once said, “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” Nowhere is […]

Crow/Nez Perce bison hide, quill wrapped horse hair blanket strip edged in pony and seed beads, ca. 1850. NA.203.1483

Art of the Buffalo Culture Era: The Paul Dyck Collection – Points West Online

March 22, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2014 Art of the Buffalo Culture Era: The Paul Dyck Collection By Emma I. HansenPlains Indian Museum Curator Emerita On June 15, 2013, the […]

Hand-colored photograph by Paolo Salviati of Buffalo Bill and Indian members of the Wild West cast in Venice, April 1890. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.822 (detail)

Treasures from Our West: photograph, Buffalo Bill and Wild West cast members in Venice

March 21, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine in Spring 2012 Buffalo Bill and Wild West cast members in a gondola in Venice As our Buffalo Bill Museum makes clear, William F. “Buffalo […]

Harold McCracken on the schooner Morrissey, ca. 1928. MS 305 Harold McCracken Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. N198#F1253V

Photographs: Harold McCracken and the Alaska Arctic Expedition

March 18, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Past Exhibition Photographs from Harold McCracken’s Expedition to Alaska and the Arctic McCracken Research Library Gallery The dozen photographs in this display were taken from the collection of the McCracken […]

Poster, 1888. Mary Jester Allen Acquisition fund purchase. 1.69.6354

Printing—19th century style… Buffalo Bill’s posters – Points West Online

March 15, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2014 By Mike Parker When the Buffalo Bill Center of the West acquired a poster commemorating an 1888 performance of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West […]