In 1895, 25-year-old Caroline Lockhart wears a 246-pound diver’s suit twice her size and climbs over the edge of a tugboat, looking out at the Boston Harbor. Up until that […]
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.
A Spirited Wild West Volley – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazine History EditionWinter 2022 A Spirited Wild West Volley By Mack Frost The performers and crew who toured with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West were among […]
Enduring West: Exploration and its Impact
The American West has always been a destination to explore – by scholars, naturalists, scientists, and others. Discoveries made within the last couple of decades alone have caused explorers like […]
Advertising the Frontier Myth: Poster Art of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
In 1835, P.T. Barnum bought a human being. Barnum saw an ad in the Pennsylvania Inquirer. Joice Heth, an elderly African-American, was being promoted as George Washington’s nanny, but the […]
The Harry Yount Enigma: Yellowstone’s First Park Ranger
Buried among the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradually moving farther and farther from civilization, have […]
“There wasn’t any make-believe or made-up stuff:” the Western Work of James Bama
Don Schmalz was riding up Trout Creek. The year was 1973. The wind was coming straight out of the north and it was snowing. He was leading two hunters into […]
