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 in autumn

True West magazine names Cody Firearms Museum in annual Top Ten museums list

August 26, 2014 by Nancy McClure

True West magazine has added the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum to its list of the Top Ten Western Museums for 2014. True West selected the […]

Colt revolver, 1847. Gift of the Gordon T. Matson Family. 1996.12.1

Frontier Violence Would not Prevail – Points West Online

August 25, 2014 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2001 Frontier Violence Would Not Prevail By Mark Bagne, Guest Author Driving down main street of almost any western town, you’ll see the manicured […]

Purdey Over-Under 28 gauge shotgun. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sheerin, San Antonio, Texas. 2011.12.1

Treasures from Our West: Magnificent Purdey shotgun

August 23, 2014 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 20007 The Magnificent Purdey shotgun James F. Purdey & Sons, LTD, of London was established in 1814. Purdey rifles and shotguns have long […]

Carbine, 1896. Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.482

Carbine: Uniting Man, His Horse, and His Firearm – Points West Online

August 21, 2014 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 1994 Carbine—Uniting Man, His Horse, and His Firearm By Howard Michael MadausFormer Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum CARBINE. (F carabine, carbine, carabineer fr. […]

Treasures from Our West: Smith and Wesson Victory Revolver

August 17, 2014 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Spring 2008 Smith and Wesson Victory Revolver The mention of World War II often brings to mind the weapons of the period. For the […]

Rifle, Remington Arms Co., 1943. Gift of James L. Kuber. 1998.33.21

The Arms and Art of the Remington Arms Company – Points West Online

August 16, 2014 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 1997 The Arms and Art of the Remington Arms Company By Howard Michael MadausFormer Curator, Cody Firearms Museum, Robert W. Woodruff Firearms Chair In […]