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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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July 23, 2025

Behind the Scenes: 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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July 22, 2025

Scout, Warrior, Witness: The Legacy of White Man Runs Him

A Feathered Legacy On display in the Plains Indian Museum visitors will find a feather bonnet that once belonged to a revered…

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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…

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