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.

Harold McCracken on the schooner Morrissey, ca. 1928. MS 305 Harold McCracken Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. N198#F1253V (detail)
January 8, 2021

Alaska Man, Part 2 – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2017 Alaska Man, Part 2 Click here to read part one… By Mary Robinson In part…

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Fig. 15: Bear Lake Camp. MS 305 Harold McCracken Photograph Collection, McCracken Research Library. N115#01990V (detail)
December 31, 2020

Alaska Man, Part 1 – Points West Online

Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2017 Alaska Man, Part 1 By Mary Robinson “You’d take him for a schoolmaster, precisely like…

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November 10, 2020

Museum Minute: Vincent Mercaldo

Vincent Mercaldo was a painter and artist. But many people, including his family, didn’t realize that he collected and manipulated photographs as…

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Rene Duykaerts, near Laws, Owens Valley, California, 1995. Silver gelatin print by William Shepley. P.602.014 (detail)
October 8, 2020

The Equestrian West: Photographs by William Shepley

Past Exhibition (closed April 11, 2021) John Bunker Sands Photography Gallery Beginning in the 1980s, William Shepley followed his passion for the…

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McCracken Research Library
October 2, 2020

Museum Minute: Collections Can Be Daunting

The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West receives many gifts, donations, and loans from patrons. The staff…

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May 5, 2020

Museum Minute: Valley Ranch Boarding School

From 1922 to 1934, there was a college preparatory school for boys down the south fork in Cody. The Valley Ranch Boarding…

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