Reporting from the Center of the West

ThroughWyoming Public Media logo 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.


January 3, 2019

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…

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Josh Elliot (b. 1973). Morning Blue, n.d. Oil on linen. Museum Purchase from William E. Weiss Memorial Fund. 1.18 (detail)
December 27, 2018

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…

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December 20, 2018

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…

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Buffalo Bill's Wild West poster highlighting cowboys, ca. 1896. Courier Litho. Co. 1.69.425
December 13, 2018

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…

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Cup, Lakota (Sioux), Northern Plains, ca.1900. Metal, rawhide, tin cones, glass beads, porcupine quills, tanned hide, wool cloth, cotton thread, dyed horse hair; NA.506.146. Courtesy of the Plains Indian Museum.
December 6, 2018

Museum Minute: Artistic Expression Through A Tin Cup

During the Reservation Era, roughly from the 1870s to the 1920s, Native Americans were required to move onto allotments of land. Rebecca…

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November 29, 2018

Native American High School Students Create Their Own Exhibit

For the past 15 years, the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West welcomes high school students from…

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