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The Winchester Records Synopsis, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cursive
The Cody Firearms Records office produces letters from the corporate records of seven major America firearms manufacturers (Ithaca, Savage, Lafever, Marlin, AH…
The Firearm of the Mountains: The Hawken Rifle and the American West
When most people imagine the “rifle that won the west” the Winchester ’73 and Colt Single Action Army are the first firearms…
Revolutionary Readers: The Library as a Symbol for Freedom
In 18th-century America, a book was not merely an object for reading–it was a luxury item, a status symbol, and for the average colonist,…
An Intern in Paradise
Hello everybody! I’m Lexi and I am working at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West for the summer of 2026 as the Draper…
The Art—and Science—of the Roundskin
Explore how the Draper Natural History Museum is building its scientific collections through the specialized skill of preparing roundskins….
The Myth of the Fully Processed Archive
When you think of an archive, you probably imagine countless collections all perfectly organized and described down to the last scrap of paper. You may…