Before the late Buffalo Bill Center of the West Trustee Willis McDonald IV (1926–2015) retired to Wyoming in 1996, he was an attorney with the prestigious New York law firm […]
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 of Monarch of the Skies, an exhibition about […]
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. “Buffalo Bill” Cody Russia’s Grand Duke Alexis set […]
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 our Grand Prize Winner: Emily Hollingshead from Cody […]
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 the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, received […]
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 comeback…on the centennial of his death. In suitably […]
