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By Western Hands: A Story To Keep Western Furniture Alive In Cody
A specific western furniture style was born in Cody in the 1930s. And for the past 30 years, its biggest fans have…

The Mystery of the Forgotten Winchester ’73 Short Story Contest
Forgotten Winchester: The Mystery In November 2014, archaeologists at Great Basin National Park unexpectedly stumbled upon a 132-year-old Winchester Model 1873 lever…

Museum Minute: The Rowland Made Wheellock Rifle
The wheellock rifle was invented in the 1500s. These were incredibly popular guns in England during the 1600s so there are many…

Museum Minute: Why An Everyday Dress Is Unique
At the turn of the century, ethnologists and anthropologists were trying to collect objects from different Plains Indian cultures, since they believed…

Analyzing Obsidian Lithics using Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF)
Revealing how Plains Indians traversed the Washakie WildernessBy Alyssa Rina and Kate Breitenstein At the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (The…

Top 10 Bucket List @ The Center of the West
As much as we hate to admit it, the grand weeks of summer holiday are drawing to a close! Stores have their…