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: 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…

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…

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…