Riding down the trail in the Absaroka Mountains of Montana with a few of my family’s guests I gaze out across the glorious fields of wildflowers and the towering blue […]
epiCENTER: Explore the CENTER of it all with our staff!
Enjoy the observations and interests of the people who work at the Center of the West here in our staff blog. Just note that these are the personal perspectives of individual staff members, and are not meant to be official representations of Center expertise or policy.
A Look Back at Michele Farrier’s Time as Artist-in-Residence
A native of northern California, Michele Farrier now calls Cortez, Colorado home. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University of California-Davis. After twenty years of teaching art […]
10 Years of Biscuits & Beans: The Chuckwagon Experience
10 Years, 36,000 biscuits, and 2,000 lbs. of beans later Ron Reed is still bringing us the authentic Chuckwagon Experience! Walking up the steps of the Center of the West […]
37th Annual Plains Indian Museum Powwow Winners
In our 37th year, the first Center Powwow was held on the top of a flatbed trailer as a dancer demonstration. Today, we are the premier powwow hosted by a […]
125 Years Since the White City
What does the first Ferris Wheel, 3 Reindeer, and Buffalo Bill have in common? 125 years ago this June 21, the World’s Fair in Chicago debuted the first Ferris Wheel. […]
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 thought to be the driving evolutionary force responsible […]
