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.


July 20, 2018

Museum Minute: Buffalo Bill’s Childhood Home

Buffalo Bill Cody’s two story childhood home stands in the courtyard of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. It’s the largest…

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Bighorn sheep exhibit
July 12, 2018

Museum Minute: The Bighorn Rams of Christmas Eve 2000

It’s Christmas Eve 2000. The curator of the Draper Museum of Natural History, Dr. Charles Preston and his wife were driving along…

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Box, Huron, Eastern Woodlands, ca. 1890. Birch bark, Commercial cardboard, velvet cloth, glass beads, cotton thread. Chandler-Pohrt Collection, Gift of Mr. William D. Weiss. NA.106.247
July 5, 2018

Museum Minute: Commodity Cheese Box

Native American women used whatever materials they had to create objects. Hunter Old Elk, the curatorial assistant of the Plains Indian Museum,…

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Thomas Moran (American, born England, 1837-1926). Zoroaster Peak (Grand Canyon, Arizona), 1918. Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches. Purchased by the Board of Trustees in honor of Peter H. Hassrick. 11.96 (detail)
June 28, 2018

Museum Minute: Zoroaster Peak

Thomas Moran was one of the artist documenting the expansion to the West. He was on the first formal expedition in 1871…

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June 21, 2018

Museum Minute: The American Cheetah

The American Cheetah is a prehistoric mammal that roamed Northern Wyoming in the Miocene and the Pleistocene Epochs. The American Cheetah is…

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Buffalo Bill's Winchester carbine. Gift of Mrs. George T. Beck. 1.69.369
June 14, 2018

Museum Minute: Buffalo Bill’s Winchester Carbine

There are stories, which pass through hearsay but one can never be sure if the story is completely true. The Buffalo Bill…

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