Nancy McClure

May 4, 2017

Center receives Duke Energy Foundation grant for golden eagle exhibition

Duke Energy Foundation has announced today that they have awarded the Buffalo Bill Center of the West a $50,000 grant in support…

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Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Russia's Grand Duke Alexis, and William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Black and white photograph, 1872. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.819 (detail)
April 29, 2017

Treasures from Our West: Photograph, Custer, Grand Duke Alexis, Buffalo Bill

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2016 Photograph, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, Russia’s Grand Duke Alexis, and William F….

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Annie Oakley shooting before a group of women., ca. 1920. MS6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.1177
April 19, 2017

Grand Prize Winner: Emily Hollingshead with “Annie Oakley” essay

Thank you to all of the winners of our Centennial History Contest! The first place winner in the Paper Category is also…

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April 11, 2017

Center of the West’s Peter Hassrick to receive UW Honorary Doctorate

At the University of Wyoming (UW) commencement ceremonies May 12 – 13, 2017, Peter H. Hassrick, Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar at…

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100 years later, Wild West PR man Major Burke mounts a comeback—from a Washington, DC cemetary

One of the most clever and colorful publicists in history is about to pull off his greatest promotion ever: staging a dramatic…

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The "Flamboyant Fraternity": left to right, Elisha P. Green, James Butler Hickok, William F. Cody, John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, and Eugene Overton, 1873. R.H. Furman photograph. Museum Purchase, Garlow Collection. P.6.908
April 7, 2017

Centennial History Contest winners

In celebration of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s centennial year, the Center hosted a Centennial History Contest. The  contest theme…

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