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Our Buffalo Bill Museum is our flagship and has rich stories to tell not only about William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s own personal history as a western man, scout, actor, showman, and entrepreneur, but also of the times in which he lived, his legacy, and the myth of the West. This blog shares Points West articles about or related to Buffalo Bill.

Henry Howard Bagg (1852-1928). Buffalo Bill's TE Ranch, ca. 1910. Southwest of Cody, Wyoming, along the South Fork of the Shoshone River. Museum purchase, Garlow Collection. 150.69
August 6, 2025

The TE Ranch in American Memory

A Window into the West Just outside the Coe Auditorium at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West hangs an iconic painting…

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July 8, 2025

Echoes of the Painted West: John Clymer’s Gold Train

Gold in the Hills! Colonel Mulberry Sellers in Mark Twain’s satirical novel The American Claimant prophetically decreed, “There’s gold in them thar…

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June 24, 2025

Buffalo Bill’s Greatest Prop: The Storied Ride of the Deadwood Coach

There’s an old yellow stagecoach sitting in the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Center of the West that once rumbled through rugged…

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Pair of spurs, ca. 1880. 1.69.5
July 22, 2024

Earn Your Spurs – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazine Spring 2023 The Way West: Earn Your Spurs By Jim Arndt William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody…

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A performer who may be Oglala Lakota Chief Iron Tail plays ping pong with a fellow castmate as Joe Black Fox and a group Native performers, cowboys, vaqueros, and Cossacks watch the match. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.69.1031
July 10, 2024

A Spirited Wild West Volley – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazine History EditionWinter 2022 A Spirited Wild West Volley By Mack Frost The performers and crew who…

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Jeremy Johnston presenting at an intern luncheon at the Center of the West in 2018.
July 9, 2024

Jeremy Johnston remembered

Obituary reprinted with permission from the Powell Tribune Jeremy Monroe Johnston, 53, passed away Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Salt Lake City,…

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