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 Buffalo Bill Center of the West's Draper Natural History Museum partners with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation on the Camp Monaco Prize.

New endowment funds Draper Natural History Museum curator position

January 28, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Willis McDonald IV, founding chair of the Draper Natural History Museum Advisory Board at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, has announced a gift to endow the position of […]

Great Britain Gets a Visit from an Indian Princess and Her Husband – Points West Online

January 25, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2012 Great Britain Gets a Visit from an Indian Princess and Her Husband By Tom F. Cunningham At the same time that Buffalo Bill […]

Plains Basin habitat in the Draper Natural History Museum.

Treasures from Our West: Pronghorn antelope

January 24, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2013 Pronghorn (Antilocapra Americano) specimen The pronghorn (Antilocapra Americano), usually called the pronghorn antelope, is not really an antelope at all. Although it […]

Victor Alexander at the California Saddle Shop, ca. 1936-39. Gift of Audrey Alexander Sommer. MS 60 Victor Alexander Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.60.87 (detail)

Victor Alexander, Saddlemaker – Points West Online

January 18, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 1993 Victor Alexander, Saddlemaker By Rodric Coslet In 1992, the Buffalo Bill [Center of the West] received a rare and valuable gift from Victor Alexander, […]

Treasures from Our West: “Indian with Tomahawk” by Fritz Scholder

January 17, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2013 Indian with Tomahawk by Fritz Scholder Throughout his life, Fritz Scholder refused to self-identify as a Native American, although he is one-quarter […]

A Treasure from Our West: Winchester Model 1866 rifle embellished with elk, bison, and grizzly bear. 1988.8.3283

Cody Firearms Museum exhibits Ronald Reagan’s Winchester rifle at 2015 SHOT Show

January 12, 2015 by Nancy McClure

For the first time, the Cody Firearms Museum is exhibiting firearms from its collection at the annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show) hosted by the National Shooting Sports […]