Nancy McClure

August 18, 2017

Center of the West’s curator of Buffalo Bill Museum and western history earns PhD

It’s safe to say that Jeremy Johnston—a former history professor at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, and now Curator of Western History…

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Buffalo Bill Center of the West
August 10, 2017

True West once again taps Buffalo Bill Center of the West as #1 Western Museum

True West magazine has once again named the Buffalo Bill Center of the West its 2017 Top Western Museum. The Center received…

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Highlight 03: Albert Bierstadt's "The Last of the of the Buffalo." 2.60
August 4, 2017

Buffalo Bill Center of the West mounted special Bierstadt exhibition in 2018

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) is best known as America’s premier western landscapes artist. But he was also a renowned history painter, a rarely…

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Bill Monday and helpers gather pronghorn for an airplane ride. MS 3 Charles Belden Collection. Loading Pronghorn: PN.67.695a
July 29, 2017

Treasures from Our West: Belden photograph, pronghorn antelope boarding a plane

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2016 Charles Belden photograph of pronghorn antelope boarding a plane From the rangelands of…

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Amelia Earhart flight jacket, ca. 1930. Gift of Carl Dunrud. 1.69.2200
July 26, 2017

Buffalo Bill Center of the West has its own piece of Amelia Earhart history

Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, almost 40 at the time, disappeared on July 2, 1937, on an around-the-world flight in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra….

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Buffalo Bill Center of the West with tipi
July 18, 2017

Center of the West’s Buffalo Bill Museum hosts Centennial symposium August 2–4

As a part of the year-long Centennial celebration in 2017, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Buffalo Bill Museum brought renowned…

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