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.

Treasures from Our West: Winchester Calendar, 1894

January 3, 2020 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Winchester Calendar, 1894 In 1887, Union Metallic Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, introduced an advertising calendar to market its line of […]

Treasures post 215: Hickok revolver. 1.69.6284.1

Treasures from Our West: Wild Bill Hickok Revolver

December 20, 2019 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Wild Bill Hickok’s Revolver James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s (1837–1874) pair of ivory-handled revolvers were as legendary as he was. Three […]

Silver and turquoise belt, ca. 1940s. Gift of Mrs. Frank D. Oastler. NA.203.309

Adornment in the West: The American Indian as Artist – Points West Online

December 13, 2019 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2015 Adornment in the West: The American Indian as Artist By Donna Poulton To the world, Millicent Rogers was a fabulously wealthy, mysteriously glamorous […]

Feather dance bustle, ca. 1987. Sioux, Canada. NA.203.795

Treasures from Our West: Native Feather Bustle

December 6, 2019 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Native Feather Bustle There’s no shortage of bustles at the Center of the West’s Plains Indian Museum Powwow, the longest-running annual […]

Model 1866 Winchester, ca. 1873. Engraved by master artisan Conrad F. Ulrich featuring an unusual decorative border at the wrist using a Grecian key pattern, and a rare depiction of Diana, goddess of the hunt. Other panels depict elk, deer, bear, buffalo, and rabbit. Exhibited at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.3283

Guns as Art – Points West Online

November 27, 2019 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2017 Guns As Art By Gene Ball From the Archives: Gene Ball, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s former education coordinator, penned this […]

Making a garden, 1909. Individuals unidentified. North Platte, Nebraska. MS 006 William F. Cody Collection. P.6.647.04a (detail)

Treasures from Our West: Photograph: Making a garden in North Platte, Nebraska, 1909

November 22, 2019 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Photograph: Making a garden in North Platte, Nebraska, 1909 For these folks, spring undoubtedly meant consulting the Old Farmer’s Almanac and […]