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.

Etheyle Parry and Juanita Parry lead cowgirls riding horses around the Buffalo Bill's Wild West arena. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.69.1304

Treasures from Our West: Photograph of cowgirls from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West

October 3, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2011 Cowgirls from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West on a Stagecoach Five cowgirls from the cast of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West dress the […]

Buffalo Bill Center of the West with tipi

Center of the West asks, “If the Supervolcano were about to erupt, what museum objects would you save?”

October 1, 2015 by Nancy McClure

If catastrophe were imminent for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, and everyone served as curators, what would each snatch as he or she fled the premises? In a […]

Treasures from Our West: Lakota breastplate

September 30, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2011 Of Lakota origin, this breastplate from approximately 1890 is made of bone hair pipes with brass beads and leather fringe. A […]

William F. Cody in front of his Wild West show tent, ca. 1900. MS47 David R. Phillips Collection. PN.47.17

Papers of William F. Cody honored in National Endowment for the Humanities’ 50th anniversary

September 29, 2015 by Nancy McClure

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has chosen the Papers of William F. Cody at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West as one of its success stories the […]

Bear-ly Making It – Points West Online

September 27, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West in Spring 2002 Bear-ly Making It: Can Homo Sapiens and Ursus Arctos Horribilis Make History and Coexist? Ed. note: More than thirteen years later, grizzly […]

Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909). Untitled (Impressionistic winter scene of stream, rocks, and trees). Oil on board. Gift of The Coe Foundation. 75.67

Treasures from Our West: Impressionistic winter scene by Frederic Remington

September 26, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally featured in Points West magazine in Winter 2008 By Dr. Henry Sayre “I sometimes feel,” Frederic Remington once said, “that I am trying to do the impossible in my […]