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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…