At one point in time, the swallow-tailed kite bird was a common species in the Great Plains, including eastern Wyoming. But Dr. Charles Preston, the former curator of the Draper […]
Reporting from the Center of the West
Through
a creative collaboration between the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and Wyoming Public Media, Multimedia Journalist Kamila Kudelska reports about the American West from Cody, Wyoming. Her stories—which include blog posts, audio, and video—can be heard on Wyoming Public Radio, and are also found on Wyoming Public Media's website as well as right here on the Buffalo Bill Center of the West's website.
This unique partnership is made possible through the generosity of the Hal R. and Naoma J. Tate Foundation.
Below, explore Kamila's fascinating stories on contemporary issues in the American West along with its art, history, culture, and much more. She's on the scene...
...Reporting from the Center of the West.
Museum Minute: The Man Behind the Founding of Cody, Wyoming
Cody is named after William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, but what not many know is that this was a strategic choice. George Beck, a Wyoming politician and entrepreneur, was the […]
Museum Minute: Frederic Remington and Buffalo Bill
The McCracken Research Library receives hundreds of collections of journals, notebooks and photographs annually. Often, library staff are not able to go through it all. But when library fellows come […]
Museum Minute: A Monumental Portrait
Frank Perley Fairbanks was a classmate of Phimister Proctor’s, the famous American sculptor, at the American Academy in Rome. Fairbanks who himself was a portraitist admired Proctor greatly. So much […]
Museum Minute: The Watermelon Patch Gun
The Cody Firearms Museum is home to more than 7,000 firearms but there’s one that is particularly popular with the public. That gun is a percussion trap gun. Ashley Hlebinsky, […]
Museum Minute: Challenges of Collecting Sensitive Material
Museums are collections of objects that tell a story about something. At the Plains Indian Museum, the objects tell the story of the Plains Indian people. But sometimes the materials […]
