Spotlight: Shooter: History of the American Sniper
Enjoy one of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s most popular and dynamic programs: the Draper Museum Raptor Experience.
Turkey vulture Suli, one of our raptors, during a program.
At 1 p.m. each day the Center is open to the public, staff and volunteers bring out a few of the Raptor Experience’s live birds in the Hub, the Center’s main lobby—or in our beautiful sculpture garden in case of unseasonably warm weather. They talk about the raptors and the program, and answer questions from the audience.
Our raptors:
- Amelia, the short-eared owl
- Hayabusa, the peregrine falcon
- Hayden, the Swainson’s hawk
- Isham, the red-tailed hawk
- Jade, the bald eagle
- Kateri, the golden eagle
- Monte, the eastern screech owl
- Remington, the northern saw-whet owl
- Salem, the American kestrel
- Suli, the turkey vulture
- Teasdale, the great horned owl
Click here for the Raptor Experience’s blog!
Find out more about the Draper Museum Raptor Experience.
What is—and what isn’t—a raptor?
Spotlight: Shooter: History of the American Sniper
Mary Budd Flitner
Lecture & book signing
My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir
By Mary Budd Flitner
Thursday, September 20
3 p.m.
Join speaker Mary Budd Flitner for a lecture in the Center’s Coe Auditorium, followed by a book signing at our Center Store. Flitner’s presentation explores her book, My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir.
Description from Amazon.com
For many outsiders, the word “ranching” conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against a backdrop of breathtaking mountain vistas. In this absorbing memoir of life in the Wyoming high country, Mary Budd Flitner offers a more authentic glimpse into the daily realities of ranch life—and what it takes to survive in the ranching world.
Some of Flitner’s recollections are humorous and lighthearted. Others take a darker turn. A modern-day rancher with decades of experience, Mary has dealt with the hardships and challenges that come with this way of life. She’s survived harsh conditions like the “winter of 50 below” and economic downturns that threatened her family’s livelihood. She’s also wrestled with her role as a woman in a profession that doesn’t always treat her as equal. But for all its challenges, Flitner has also savored ranching’s joys, including the ties that bind multiple generations of families to the land.
My Ranch, Too begins with the story of her great-grandfather, Daniel Budd, who in 1878 drove a herd of cattle into Wyoming Territory and settled his family in an area where conditions seemed favorable. Four generations later, Mary grew up on this same portion of land, learning how to ride horseback and take care of livestock. When she married Stan, she simply moved from one ranch to another, joining the Flitner family’s Diamond Tail Ranch in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin.
The Diamond Tail is not Mary’s alone to run, as she is quick to acknowledge. Everybody pitches in, even the smallest of children. But when Mary takes the responsibility of gathering a herd of cattle or makes solo rounds at the crack of dawn to check on the livestock, we have no doubt that this is indeed her ranch, too.
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue Matinee
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue in performance. Wendy Corr (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Miller (guitar and vocals), and Hannah Miller (fiddle, mandolin, and vocals).
Selected dates
4 p.m. (show only)
Enjoy authentic cowboy music and entertainment at this afternoon show in the Center’s Kuyper Dining Pavilion.
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue is celebrating a 13th season as the best musical entertainment in Buffalo Bill’s Cody Country. The show features musical styles ranging from cowboy and Americana to bluegrass and gospel—with a friendly dose of humor to boot.
Music show: $17 per person.
- Show begins at 4 p.m. and concludes by 5:15 p.m.
CLICK HERE to check for ticket availability by date.
For commercial bus tour rates, contact Debra Elwood at 307-578-4114 or debrae@centerofthewest.org.
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue in performance. Wendy Corr (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Miller (guitar and vocals), and Hannah Miller (fiddle, mandolin, and vocals).
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue & Dinner
June 1 – September 29 (some exceptions)
Monday – Saturday, 5:30 p.m.
Enjoy authentic cowboy music and entertainment and a delicious western buffet at this evening dinner show in the Center’s Kuyper Dining Pavilion. And if you are planning to take in the Cody Nite Rodeo at 8 p.m. don’t worry, the show ends in time for you to do so!
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue is celebrating a 14th season as the best musical entertainment in Buffalo Bill’s Cody Country. The show features musical styles ranging from cowboy and Americana to bluegrass and gospel—with a friendly dose of humor to boot. Our buffet menu includes grilled prime tenderloin of beef, organic bar-b-que chicken, artisan rolls, organic mixed green salad, fresh seasonal vegetables, roasted rosemary potatoes, and assorted fresh desserts.
Dinner and show: $41 +tax per person.
- Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5:15 p.m.)
- Show begins at 6:30 p.m. and concludes at 7:30 p.m.
For our best value, purchase our combo ticket including Buffalo Bill Center of the West general admission as well as the dinner and show: $59.50 + tax.
CLICK HERE to check for ticket availability by date.
For commercial bus tour rates, contact Group Tour Coordinator Debra Elwood at 307-578-4114 or debrae@centerofthewest.org.
A limited number of show-only tickets are available for $17.
Enjoy one of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s most popular and dynamic programs: the Draper Museum Raptor Experience.
Turkey vulture Suli, one of our raptors, during a program.
At 1 p.m. each day the Center is open to the public, staff and volunteers bring out a few of the Raptor Experience’s live birds in the Hub, the Center’s main lobby—or in our beautiful sculpture garden in case of unseasonably warm weather. They talk about the raptors and the program, and answer questions from the audience.
Our raptors:
- Amelia, the short-eared owl
- Hayabusa, the peregrine falcon
- Hayden, the Swainson’s hawk
- Isham, the red-tailed hawk
- Jade, the bald eagle
- Kateri, the golden eagle
- Monte, the eastern screech owl
- Remington, the northern saw-whet owl
- Salem, the American kestrel
- Suli, the turkey vulture
- Teasdale, the great horned owl
Click here for the Raptor Experience’s blog!
Find out more about the Draper Museum Raptor Experience.
What is—and what isn’t—a raptor?
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue Matinee
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue in performance. Wendy Corr (bass guitar and vocals), Dan Miller (guitar and vocals), and Hannah Miller (fiddle, mandolin, and vocals).
Selected dates
4 p.m. (show only)
Enjoy authentic cowboy music and entertainment at this afternoon show in the Center’s Kuyper Dining Pavilion.
Dan Miller’s Cowboy Music Revue is celebrating a 13th season as the best musical entertainment in Buffalo Bill’s Cody Country. The show features musical styles ranging from cowboy and Americana to bluegrass and gospel—with a friendly dose of humor to boot.
Music show: $17 per person.
- Show begins at 4 p.m. and concludes by 5:15 p.m.
CLICK HERE to check for ticket availability by date.
For commercial bus tour rates, contact Debra Elwood at 307-578-4114 or debrae@centerofthewest.org.
Enjoy one of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s most popular and dynamic programs: the Draper Museum Raptor Experience.
Turkey vulture Suli, one of our raptors, during a program.
At 1 p.m. each day the Center is open to the public, staff and volunteers bring out a few of the Raptor Experience’s live birds in the Hub, the Center’s main lobby—or in our beautiful sculpture garden in case of unseasonably warm weather. They talk about the raptors and the program, and answer questions from the audience.
Our raptors:
- Amelia, the short-eared owl
- Hayabusa, the peregrine falcon
- Hayden, the Swainson’s hawk
- Isham, the red-tailed hawk
- Jade, the bald eagle
- Kateri, the golden eagle
- Monte, the eastern screech owl
- Remington, the northern saw-whet owl
- Salem, the American kestrel
- Suli, the turkey vulture
- Teasdale, the great horned owl
Click here for the Raptor Experience’s blog!
Find out more about the Draper Museum Raptor Experience.
What is—and what isn’t—a raptor?
Lecture & book signing
The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision of the American West
John F. Ross
By John F. Ross
Saturday, September 22
2 p.m.
Join our guest speaker, historian John F. Ross for a lecture in the Center’s Coe Auditorium, followed by a book signing at our Center Store. Ross discusses his recent book, The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision of the American West.
John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in the history of American exploration. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of his expedition, they were starving, battered, and nearly naked. Accomplishing what others thought impossible, they completed a journey that Lewis and Clark had begun almost seventy years before the final exploration of continental America. And he did it with only one arm.
This perilous journey sparked an epiphany for Powell, who would go on to become not only the leading American scientist of his generation but a profound visionary about water issues and the development of the West. Powerful interests would shut him down, but his prophetic ideas ring as true today as they did more than a century ago.
About our speaker
Historian John F. Ross is the author most recently of The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision of the American West. His previous books include Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed and War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America’s First Frontier, which won the Fort Ticonderoga Award for Contributions to American History.
