History/Social Studies
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,…
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…
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…
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…
An Unsung Hero of Firearms Manufacturing
Following the American Civil War, large scale firearms manufacturing companies Winchester, Colt, Smith and Wesson, and Remington drove demand by creating niche…
June 30, 2025
Brushstrokes of a Nation: Golden Gate, Yellowstone
Thomas Moran’s “Golden Gate, Yellowstone National Park,” 1893. 4.75…