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.
The Search for H.O.B.
A behind the scenes look at the mystery solving process of identifying persons in historic photographs. In this case the mysterious photographer H.O.B….
Museum Minute: Frederic Remington and Buffalo Bill
The McCracken Research Library receives hundreds of collections of journals, notebooks and photographs annually. Often, library staff are not able to go…
A Winchester Christmas List: Winchester Stores and Merchandise in the 1920s
What was on a Christmas wish list from the 1920s? Roller skates? A baseball bat? How about a new refrigerator, or tool…
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…
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…
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…