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.

November 1, 2018

Museum Minute: A Letter Stops A Robbery

The McCracken Research Library is a local history library not only a library specializing in all things Buffalo Bill. And the Cody…

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Detail of a document signed by William Clark, Governor of the Missouri Territory, 1813. MS331.01.01
September 20, 2018

Museum Minute: The Hidden Treasure of a Library

The McCracken Research Library at the Center of the West collects manuscripts, photographs and much more that pertains to Buffalo Bill Cody,…

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Portion of the letterhead of Crawford's Alaska Prospecting and Mining Corporation, December 15, 1898. MS 322 John Wallace Crawford Collection. MS322.03.09.06
August 31, 2018

The “Poet Scout” Captain Jack Crawford – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2009 The “Poet Scout” Captain Jack Crawford From this “Treasures from our West” post from a while…

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Jennings 2nd Model rifle, ca. 1851. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.151
June 7, 2018

Museum Minute: Jennings Rifle

The earliest known reference to the Winchester Arms Collection is a letter from Oliver Winchester to R.S. Lawrence in 1871. Oliver Winchester…

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March 7, 2018

Women and Winchester: A Match Made in Heaven

Impact of World War I on women in the workplace In 1917 the U.S. joined World War I.  A year later the…

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Thomas Moran (1837–1926). "Great Blue Spring of the Lower Geyser Basin, Firehole River, Yellowstone," 1872. Watercolor on paper, 18.75 x 26 inches. Purchased with funds from the William E. Weiss Fund, Mrs. J. Maxwell Moran, Wiley Buchanan III, Nancy-Carroll Draper, Nancy and Nick Petry, Steve and Sue Ellen Klein, William C. Foxley, John F. Eulich, Mary Lou and Willis McDonald IV, and D. Harold Byrd, Jr. 24.91
February 23, 2018

Writing the West – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineWinter 2001 Writing the West By Frances B. ClymerFormer Librarian, McCracken Research Library Writing the West occurred…

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