Clues For The Classroom
Special virtual resources teachers and students.

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…

June 30, 2025
Brushstrokes of a Nation: Golden Gate, Yellowstone
Thomas Moran’s “Golden Gate, Yellowstone National Park,” 1893. 4.75…

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…

June 18, 2025
Carl Rungius and the Silver-Tipped Grizzly: A Legacy in Western Wildlife Art
A silver tipped grizzly lives in the Whitney Western Art Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. No cause for…

October 22, 2024
Migration Season
By Chloe Winkler and Amy Phillips Fall affects us all in many different ways! As humans we tend to snuggle up inside…

October 11, 2024
The Truth About Bats
Why do bats have such a bad reputation? Are they really disease-carriers, blood-drinking, flying rodents? …