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.

Japanese-American women walk to their barracks at Heart Mountain Relocation Center. MS 89 Jack Richard Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. PN.89.111.21238.3 (detail)
December 14, 2018

The War at Home: Women in the Workforce and World War II in Wyoming

War changes the landscape and people, whether on the frontlines or Homefront. World War II not only tested the millions of American…

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M1 Carbine manufactured at Winchester Repeating Arms Co. MS 20 Winchester Repeating Arms Company Archives Collection. P.20.0955
December 10, 2018

Winchester Goes to War: The M1 Carbine

The years following World War I were not kind to the Winchester Repeating Arms, Co. The loans taken out during the war…

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December 6, 2018

Pearl Harbor Attacked! United States Declares War on Japan!

December 7, 1941, in the early morning hours aboard Ford Island, Hawaii, sailors and Marines stood at morning muster when the buzz…

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The Life and Work of Will James by Nicole Todd
November 30, 2018

Points West Online: Will James & Me—New Books at the McCracken

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2016 Will James & Me: New Books at the McCracken By Eric Rossborough Will James was…

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November 29, 2018

Museum Minute: A Postcard to Charles Russell

It’s normal for librarians at the McCracken Research Library to find postcards, photos and other pieces of paper tucked away in a…

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November 12, 2018

The Yanks Are Coming: The Great War and Winchester Repeating Arms

The eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, for a century now we have worn poppies, lighted lanterns, and…

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