This article was originally published in a winter 1977 Buffalo Bill Center of the West newsletter. A bugle-blowing cavalry charge to rescue two damsels in distress on July 11, 1869 […]

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This article was originally published in a winter 1977 Buffalo Bill Center of the West newsletter. A bugle-blowing cavalry charge to rescue two damsels in distress on July 11, 1869 […]
Much of the western image in the public mind today was created in an artist’s studio in New Rochelle, New York. Frederice Remington’s portrayal of the frontier saga, enduring for […]
This story was originally published by Richard Frost in a winter 1980 Buffalo Bill Center of the West newsletter. Col. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody is a well known Old […]
This piece was originally published in a winter 1976 Buffalo Bill Center of the West newsletter. The letters of Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) are as distinctive as his paintings, and […]
One of the favorite aspects of my job is connecting living descendants of Plains culture with the objects and photographs of the past. I wait for that moment when a […]
“The tipi, also referred to as a lodge, represents the heart of Plains culture. It facilitated each tribe’s nomadic way of life and was the center of social, religious, and […]