Author: Nancy McClure

Nancy now does Grants & Foundations Relations for the Center of the West's Development Department, but was formerly the Content Producer for the Center's Public Relations Department, where her work included writing and updating website content, publicizing events, copy editing, working with images, and producing the e-newsletter Western Wire. Her current job is seeking and applying for funding from government grants and private foundations. In her spare time, Nancy enjoys photography, reading, flower gardening, and playing the flute.

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Tauck Tours Scavenger Hunt: Answer Key

March 19, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Answer Key: Treasures of the West Tauck Tours Scavenger Hunt, 2018 We hope you enjoyed our Treasures of the West Scavenger Hunt, designed for our friends with Tauck Tours. Let’s […]

Register Cliff is one of the landmarks on the Oregon Trail. Located outside Guernsey, Wyoming, the cliff still bears the names of many pioneers who inscribed their names in the soft rock decades ago. NPS photo.

On the Trail Headed West – Points West Online

March 16, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2005 On the Trail Headed West: Day #187 By Ashley McCartenFormer Public Relations Assistant Note: This is a fictional journal entry a young girl […]

Weddings on the Frontier – Points West Online

March 9, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2005 Weddings on the Frontier: Tradition and Innovation By Maryanne Andrus and Donna L. Whitson, PhD My Own Darling Papa: Well dear this is […]

Mee-nah-tsee-us (White Swan) (ca. 1851–1904). Apsaalooke (Crow), Montana. Painting, ca. 1887. Muslin, pencil, ink, watercolor, 37.25 x 70.5 inches. The Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection, acquired through the generosity of the Dyck family and additional gifts of the Nielson Family and the Estate of Margaret S. Coe. NA.702.40

Treasures from Our West: Painting on muslin by White Swan

March 1, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2017 Painting on muslin by White Swan Crow warrior and Army Scout White Swan was one of six scouts serving under the […]

Thomas Moran (1837–1926). "Great Blue Spring of the Lower Geyser Basin, Firehole River, Yellowstone," 1872. Watercolor on paper, 18.75 x 26 inches. Purchased with funds from the William E. Weiss Fund, Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran, Wiley Buchanan III, Nancy-Carroll Draper, Nancy and Nick Petry, Steve and Sue Ellen Klein, William C. Foxley, John F. Eulich, Mary Lou and Willis McDonald IV, and D. Harold Byrd, Jr. 24.91

Writing the West – Points West Online

February 23, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2001 Writing the West By Frances B. ClymerFormer Librarian, McCracken Research Library Writing the West occurred in many forms, the same ledgers used to […]

Suli the turkey vulture oversees the activities of the mews office.

Audiences Rapt with Raptors – Points West Online

February 16, 2018 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2012 The Building of an Empire…. Well, a New Program Anyway! Audiences Rapt with Raptors By Melissa HillAssistant Curator in Charge of Raptors, Draper […]