Nancy McClure

Jack Richard (1909-1992). Color photograph, ca. 1950. Sleeping Giant ski outing. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection. PN.89.114.21358.05
December 9, 2015

Treasures from Our West: Sleeping Giant in the Winter

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Winter 2009 Photograph, a winter outing at Sleeping Giant Ski area Reared on a dude…

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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
December 6, 2015

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

Originally published in Points West magazine in Fall 2004 Old West, New West: Conservation Paradigms By Mark BagneGuest Author Knight and Charles…

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December 5, 2015

Treasures from Our West: Lone Dog’s winter count

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2011 A winter count is a record of tribal history. Each year the keeper of…

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December 2, 2015

Treasures from Our West: Grizzly bear

Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2012 Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) Each year, visitors to the Greater Yellowstone region cite…

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Thomas Jefferson's North African Miquelet Jezail (musket), 1789. L.373.2012.11
December 1, 2015

Buffalo Bill Center of the West reopens popular Smithsonian firearms exhibit

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, reopened its popular Journeying West: Distinctive Firearms from the…

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Corkscrew Bridge, Sylvan Pass, ca. 1920. F.J. Hiscock, photographer.
November 29, 2015

Tourism in Yellowstone – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazine in Spring 1998 Tourism in Yellowstone By Lawrence CulverFormer Intern, McCracken Research Library, 1997 The creation…

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