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.

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…

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…

Museum Minute: An Early Forest Ranger
Samantha Harper is an archivist at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s McCracken Research Library. This job means that Harper digs…

Museum Minute: The Cody Red Sox
Did you ever think that Cody had a connection with the Boston Red Sox? Well, it turns out there is a connection. …

Cliff House Revealed – Points West Online
Originally published in Points West magazineFall/Winter 2013 Cliff House Revealed By Mack Frost As a photographer, I constantly have to remind myself…

Museum Minute: A $10,000 Deal
When Leonard Cody Bell (not related) was nine years old, Buffalo Bill Cody offered him $10,000 if he would keep his hair…