Originally published in 1980 in the Center’s newsletter, and reprinted in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2015 Sitting Bull: Even Cody Couldn’t Save Him By Gene BallFormer Education Director The following article appeared in the Jan-Feb-March 1980 newsletter of the then-named Buffalo Bill Historical Center. At the time, Gene Ball served as the Center’s education director. Sitting […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2006 Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney By Sarah E. Boehme, PhDFormer Curator, Whitney Western Art Museum A boat, overloaded with men, floats on a river between two lush and green riverbanks. Several of the men sit on horseback and wear American Revolutionary War uniforms. An […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2015 Will the Real Frontiersman Please Stand Up? By Sandra K. Sagala The controversy over the film The Interview (2014), in which North Korea leader Kim Jong-un was adversely portrayed, illustrates the potential danger filmmakers face when using a real person as a plot character. The rendering of a […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2003 Margaret Murie: Sunlight Aura and Spine of Steel By Valarie HammFormer Intern, Draper Natural History Museum Nestled in a log cabin in Grand Teton National Park, one of the environmental movement’s most influential spokespersons—Margaret Murie—rests quietly in her wheelchair. At nearly 101 years of age* the woman who […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum, completely redesigned and renovated in 2019, includes about 4,200 firearms in its 40,000 square feet of exhibit space along with thousands more related artifacts. The oldest guns date all the way back to the 1400s, and the newest was made as recently as late 2018. […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2019 Favorite Firearms A number of firearms experts, scholars, enthusiasts, and Buffalo Bill Center of the West staffers are more than a little familiar with the Center’s Cody Firearms Museum’s (CFM) vast collection. In the summer 2019 issue of Points West magazine, several weighed in on their “Favorite Firearm” […]