The early summer snowy mountains near Cody, Wyoming are breathtakingly beautiful and often intimidating. These photos were taken in June when the roads had just opened and people were still […]
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.
Buffalo Bill at the St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico
It is approximately 1000 miles of pure freedom…driving from Northwestern Wyoming to a town in Eastern New Mexico where my parents live. I relish these times by myself stopping when […]
Curators: Not just for museums anymore
“Hello, may I speak to the Curator, please?” Here at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, we often get calls from folks who ask that question. But, we have […]
A Rafting We Will Go
A week ago a group of Buffalo Bill Center of the West interns and employees decided that we would go on a whitewater rafting trip. At first I was very uneasy […]
Mechanical Musings at the Museum
A building engineer coming into the Center of the West would see very little by way of mechanical equipment that he wouldn’t recognize. True, there are some aspects of this […]
Custer: “Bound for glory”
“On to Little Big Horn for glory,” George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876) announced in June 1876. “We’ve caught them napping.” Napping indeed. The battle was […]
