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 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…
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…
Museum Minute: A High School’s Taxidermy Collection Becomes a Museum’s
The Draper Natural History Museum was founded in 1998. The founding curator, Dr. Charles Preston, had a surprise collection waiting for him…
Museum Minute: Morning Blue
Josh Elliot is a Montana born and raised artist of Western landscape. Karen McWhorter, the Scarlett Curator of Western American Art for…
Museum Minute: A Toy Gun in a Firearm Collection
It turns out the Cody Firearms Museum does not only collect real guns, it also has at least one toy gun. A…
Museum Minute: The American Cowboy
It’s well known that President Theodore Roosevelt helped shape the American West as we know it today. But the curator of the…