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.


Jennings 2nd Model rifle, ca. 1851. Gift of Olin Corporation, Winchester Arms Collection. 1988.8.151
June 7, 2018

Museum Minute: Jennings Rifle

The earliest known reference to the Winchester Arms Collection is a letter from Oliver Winchester to R.S. Lawrence in 1871. Oliver Winchester…

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Albert Bierstadt's Last of the Buffalo (detail). 2.60
June 4, 2018

Albert Bierstadt: A Conservationist

Albert Bierstadt—He’s a late 19th-century artist, most well-known for his majestic landscape paintings of the Wind River Range, Yellowstone, and the American…

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Tom Palmore's "Where Elegance Meets Fear." Gift of Edward R. Bazinet Foundation. 22.96 (detail)
May 31, 2018

Museum Minute: Where Elegance Meets Fear

It’s a weird story not often told at museums since it’s against the rules. But at the Whitney Western Museum of Art…

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Museum Minute: The Gentlemen’s Agreement

The Mason Revolver During the 19th century, Winchester Repeating Arms Company and Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company frequently played with each other’s…

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George Armstrong Custer (standing), Libby Custer (second from left) and others on Big Creek, Hays, Kansas, 1867. MS 71 Vincent Mercaldo Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.71.277
May 24, 2018

Exhibit Explores George Custer’s Life Before His Last Stand

George Custer is most famous for the battle he did not survive: The Battle of the Little Bighorn. Popularly known as “Custer’s…

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May 22, 2018

Monarch of the Skies: How Golden Eagles Reveal the Intricacies of an Entire Ecosystem

The Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West opened a new permanent exhibition on June 10, 2018….

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