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Jim Wilcox "Canyon Frosting." William E. Weiss Purchase Award - 2001 Buffalo Bill Art Show. 12.01.
April 9, 2014

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…

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Buckeye Blake's "Peeking under the Big Top," 2006
April 6, 2014

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…

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March 31, 2014

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…

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Plains Indian Museum
March 30, 2014

Museum Interpretation: What does it all mean?

We here at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West have our work cut out for us. With a subject as broad…

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Harry Jackson
March 23, 2014

Harry Jackson and me

I first met Harry Jackson when I was a seventh-grader in Mr. Gilpin’s art class. Because I grew up in Riverton, Wyoming,…

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Buffalo Bill, ca. 1900
March 16, 2014

Beauty Secrets – Buffalo Bill Style

Believe it or not, William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody once shared a handful of beauty secrets-yes, really! A web search today returns…

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