Sharpshooters and myth-making in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show A Museum Minute By Olivia WeitzWyoming Public MediaFebruary 22, 2024 A 1-minute audio snapshot highlighting a museum object from the collection […]
Buffalo Bill Museum
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.
Did Buffalo Bill ride for the Pony Express?
Did William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody ride for the Pony Express? A Museum Minute By Olivia WeitzWyoming Public MediaFebruary 15, 2024 A 1-minute audio snapshot highlighting a museum object from […]
Ned Buntline and the Discovery of Buffalo Bill; or, how a Miscreant Created the First World Celebrity
One thing I’ve learned since coming to work at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West is that every prominent American frontiersman is that way for a reason, and that […]
The Wild West at Ambrose Park – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2022 By the Numbers: The Wild West at Ambrose Park In its early years, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West often spent a full season in […]
Mike Masterson’s legacy marches on
When visitors to the Center of the West tour our Buffalo Bill Museum, they pause to watch actual footage of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. The musical score that accompanies that […]
The Banditti of the Plains, or, the Triumph of the Nesters
On Friday, April 8, 1892, Ben Jones and Bill Walker rode down out of the Bighorn Mountains. They had been trapping for weeks. Ben Jones was a cook in cowboy […]
