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Special virtual resources teachers and students.

December 11, 2025

How the Rocky Mountains Formed: A Journey Through Changing Scientific Ideas

“Science is finding out where we’re wrong.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer I often hear people ask, “Why are scientists always changing their minds?”…

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Kathy Wipfler; oil-on-board; Bequest of Nancy-Carroll Draper; 2.08.2
September 9, 2025

A Fleeting Season: Indian Summer in History and Art

First Use of “Indian Summer” In 1778 in his collection of essays called Letters from an American Farmer, French immigrant St. John…

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Cast photo, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East shows, 1912. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.0016
August 18, 2025

Yankee-Mania: The Wild West Invades London

A Transatlantic Debut With much fanfare and “Yankee-mania,” Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show debuted in London, England on May 9, 1887,…

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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 29, 2025

An Ordinary Man, an Extraordinary Legacy: Audie Murphy and the Colt Bisley

I may be branded by war, but I will not be defeated by it.” ― Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back Audie Murphy’s 1905…

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Articulated Bison in the Draper Natural History Museum
July 23, 2025

Buffalo Brief: Prepping Wildlife Skeletons for Display

Editor’s Note: This story includes descriptions and images of preparing an animal skeleton, and might be a little graphic for some readers….

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