McCracken Research Library
Find out what goes on in the Center of the West’s McCracken Research Library and get an insider’s look at the incredible photographs, archives, and manuscripts housed and processed by the library’s staff—who are still making some amazing finds within the collections.
Museum Minute: The Illustrator for “The Call of the Wild” Showed Empathy for Animals
A dog-fighting scene is one of the illustrations Phillip R. Goodwin did for the novel, “The Call of the Wild.” This first edition print of the book is part of the library’s collections at the Center of the West…
A Broadway Guy: the Second Life of Bat Masterson
When Bat Masterson and his brother Ed heard of a job building a railroad grade in the summer of 1872, they took…
Museum Minute: Wyoming’s Early Printed Books and the Shoshone Vocabulary, 1868
The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West has an extensive collection of rare books. That includes the…
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…
Philip R. Goodwin, or, A Child Prodigy Runs Afoul of the 20th Century
It was December, and I had just walked into the shelving room of the Madison, Wisconsin, Public Library. My job. The room…
The Reinvention of Mickey Cochrane
At night, when he was a kid, Mike Cochrane would practice running down Mt. Prospect Street in his hometown of Bridgewater, Massachusetts….