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.
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2016 Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 2 Click here to read Part 1 By Tom F. Cunningham In the previous post, Tom F. Cunningham shared stories of the weeklong stay of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Glasgow, Scotland, in early August 1904, as part of […]
Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2015 Seven Days in Glasgow with Buffalo Bill, 1904, Part 1 By Tom F. Cunningham A Scottish resident and a graduate of Glasgow University, it seems fitting that Tom F. Cunningham would have an affinity for the visits of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West to Glasgow (1891 – 1892, and […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2012 Out West with Buffalo Bill: Rosa Bonheur and Oscar Wilde By Gregory Hinton There were poets like Whitman and Stevenson, writers from Alcott to Twain, composers such as Verdi and Tchaikovsky, and artists from Monet to Bierstadt. Alexander Graham Bell created his telephone, and Thomas Edison developed the […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2018 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 3 Click here to read Part 1 and Part 2 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD As we’ve learned, the South Fork of the Shoshone River—southwest of Cody, Wyoming—was a busy place in the nineteenth century. […]
Originally published in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2017 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 2 Click here to read Part 1 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD The South Fork of the Shoshone River, southwest of Cody, Wyoming, was a relatively busy place in the nineteenth century. In the previous […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 1 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD There was a reason that William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody located his beloved TE Ranch along the South Fork of the Shoshone River: It’s a beautiful area, steeped in […]