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.

Yellowstone Discovered. WHJ-A.057
February 17, 2016

Center of the West announces discovery of one-of-a-kind set of Albertype photos of Yellowstone Park

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West announces the discovery of an extremely rare collection of Albertype photographs from the 1871 U.S….

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October 18, 2015

A Wartime Record — The Winchester Record – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West in Winter 2010 A Wartime Record: The Winchester Record Mary RobinsonHousel Director, McCracken Research Library The Winchester…

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October 5, 2015

Firearms Resources at the McCracken Research Library

Shots Heard Round the World Firearms Resources at the McCracken Research Library To view this content as a PDF, click here. Dedicated…

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HuntingLodgedetail
September 4, 2015

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To Cataloging

When I tell people I manage the Corporate Archive Blueprints for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, they immediately assume I…

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Native American man with young boy. MS 438 Forrest Fenn Indian Photographs. P.438.0144
July 13, 2015

Hidden Treasures of Internships

As an intern in the McCracken Research Library, I have been able to delve through the hidden and unprocessed photographic collections in…

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July 1, 2015

Archives Finding Guides of the McCracken Worldwide – Part 2

This article originally appeared in our Spring 2011 issue of Points West Magazine as “Bringing the BBHC’s McCracken Research Library Archives to…

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