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Wild West Posters: 19th Century Billboards
This week I learned about historic printing—processes of a hundred years ago or so. Mike Parker, printer, historian, and presenter at the…
The New Online Collections
Hello Virtual Visitor, It’s my privilege to announce the release of our new Online Collections. From the ordinary to the extraordinary, we’re…
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Beantown
In Last of the Great Scouts, a biography of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody penned by his sister Helen Cody Wetmore, she…
Cody Adventures, Part I – Perks of working for a museum
At 56 years old, I’m new—new to blogging, new to the not-for-profit world, and new to Wyoming. Loving the last two, but…
Bill Nye’s Cowboy Scourge, 1887
Popular humorist Bill Nye (1850 – 1896), who also founded the Daily Boomerang in Laramie, Wyoming, worried about Buffalo Bill’s sway over…
A Sense of Place: Laura Bell’s “Claiming Ground”
I just finished reading a book, Claiming Ground by Laura Bell. Sometimes I manage to string a few words together in a…