Author: Nancy McClure

Nancy works in the Public Relations Department in electronic communications. Her work includes writing and updating website content, publicizing events, copy editing, working with images, and producing the e-newsletter <em>Western Wire</em>. In her spare time, Nancy enjoys photography, reading, flower gardening, and playing the flute.

Bear claw necklace, Central Plains, ca. 1860. Otter hide, grizzly bear claws, glass beads, abalone shells, red ochre, porcupine quills. NA.203.1585

NEA awards $20,000 grant to Center of the West for Paul Dyck Collection catalogue

December 10, 2015 by Nancy McClure

National Endowment for the Arts awards more than $27.6 million across nation Includes $20,000 awarded to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West This week, the National Endowment for the […]

Jack Richard (1909-1992). Color photograph, ca. 1950. Sleeping Giant ski outing. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection. PN.89.114.21358.05

Treasures from Our West: Sleeping Giant in the Winter

December 9, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Winter 2009 Photograph, a winter outing at Sleeping Giant Ski area Reared on a dude ranch west of Cody, I learned to love […]

Like many paintings by Bierstadt, this subject might be drawn more from the artist's imagination than from an actual spot. Whyte's Lake, a man-made lake, existed only one year, 1877, and was washed out by floods the following year. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). Estes Park, Colorado. Whyte's Lake, ca. 1877. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Coe Foundation. 12.74

Old West, New West: Conservation Paradigms – Points West Online

December 6, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2004 Old West, New West: Conservation Paradigms By Mark BagneGuest Author Knight and Charles R. Preston, PhD, curator of the Draper Natural […]

Treasures from Our West: Lone Dog’s winter count

December 5, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2011 A winter count is a record of tribal history. Each year the keeper of the count added one symbol, representing a significant […]

Treasures from Our West: Grizzly bear

December 2, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2012 Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) Each year, visitors to the Greater Yellowstone region cite the grizzly bear as the one thing they […]

Thomas Jefferson's North African Miquelet Jezail (musket), 1789. L.373.2012.11

Buffalo Bill Center of the West reopens popular Smithsonian firearms exhibit

December 1, 2015 by Nancy McClure

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, reopened its popular Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the Smithsonian exhibition in time for the Center’s free […]