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.

Detail of beading on trousers and suspenders, ca. 1920s. Northern Arapaho. Leather, beads. 1.69.5935 (detail)

Treasures from Our West: Beaded Trousers with Suspenders

November 2, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2018 Beaded Trousers with Suspenders, ca. 1920s, Northern Arapaho An impractical but spectacular clothing item, these circa-1920s beaded trousers with attached suspenders […]

The bison, an icon of the American West, is a main attraction of the Greater Yellowstone Region. Photo by Sean Campbell.

Natural History? Natural Destiny! – Points West Online

October 26, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2002 Natural History? Natural Destiny! By Wally ReberFormer Associate Director In their way, our collections have always catalogued the West, its character and its […]

(Fig. 1, L–R) Note the various locales providing plant materials used in these baskets. NA.106.800, split yucca (Pueblo, southwest U.S., ca. 1930). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harris A. Thompson. | NA.106.463, cedar (Salish, Pacific Northwest, ca. 1900). | NA.106.464, birch (Ojibway [Chippewa], Great Lakes and southeast Canada, ca. 1920). | NA.106.597, willow (Iñupiat, Arctic Alaska, 20th century). Simplot Collection. Gift of J.R. Simplot. | NA.506.54, split sedge root and split bracken fern or bulrush root (Pomo, California, undated). Dr. Robert L. Anderson Collection.

Examining Native American Basketry in the Studio Collections of Three Artists – Points West Online

October 19, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2014 Authenticity in Western American Paintings: Examining Native American Basketry in the Studio Collections of Three Artists By Bryn Barabas PotterFormer Center of the […]

A Public Monument: Theodore Roosevelt, “Rough Rider” – Points West Online

October 12, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2008 A Public Monument: Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider By Stuart GunnFormer Assistant Registrar, Whitney Western Art Museum’s 50th Anniversary Unless otherwise noted, all photographs […]

Winchester Model 1873, “1 of 1000,” ca. 1875. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.181

Center of the West’s Cody Firearms Museum launches major reload

October 8, 2018 by Nancy McClure

The Cody Firearms Museum (CFM) at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West knows a thing or two about reloading—guns and rifle ammunition, that is. Today, however, instead of reloading […]

Treasures from Our West: Photograph, William F. Cody visiting at John S. Bell home

October 5, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2017 Photograph, William F. Cody visiting at the home John S. Bell, former chief of the Secret Service Surveying William F. “Buffalo […]