Nancy McClure

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.
March 16, 2018

On the Trail Headed West – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2005 On the Trail Headed West: Day #187 By Ashley McCartenFormer Public Relations Assistant Note: This…

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March 9, 2018

Weddings on the Frontier – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2005 Weddings on the Frontier: Tradition and Innovation By Maryanne Andrus and Donna L. Whitson, PhD…

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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
March 1, 2018

Treasures from Our West: Painting on muslin by White Swan

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2017 Painting on muslin by White Swan Crow warrior and Army Scout White Swan…

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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
February 23, 2018

Writing the West – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2001 Writing the West By Frances B. ClymerFormer Librarian, McCracken Research Library Writing the West occurred…

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Suli the turkey vulture oversees the activities of the mews office.
February 16, 2018

Audiences Rapt with Raptors – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2012 The Building of an Empire…. Well, a New Program Anyway! Audiences Rapt with Raptors By…

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Two great horned owls, eager to be on the wing, are perched on Frank Craighead's gloved fists, page 124. (detail)
February 9, 2018

New Adventures with Birds of Prey – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West  magazineSpring 2012 New Adventures with Birds of Prey By Charles R. Preston, PhDWillis McDonald, IV Senior Curator…

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