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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…
A Moving Legacy of Sound
Next to the bittersweet scent of campfire on the air, there is nothing that makes a place feel quite like home than…
When X Doesn’t Mark the Spot
The characters of the American west cast a long, legendary, and controversial shadow today. Cowboys, Indians, Mountain Men, Ranchers, Farmers, Gold Miners,…