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Girls Gone Wild West
Decades before the famous—or infamous—videos began appearing showing Bad Girls Being Naughty, another bevy of beauties became known worldwide for their exploits….

Smithsonian here in Cody…and your backyard, too!
Englishman James Smithson (1765 – 1829) never traveled to the United States, but his legacy is American through and through. It was…

Traveling With Charlie Russell
I dreamed the other night I was traveling with Charlie Russell. The first scene of my dream was suggestive of Frederic Remington’s…

Biscuits anyone? It’s chow time on the trail…
After a dusty day on the cattle drive, cowhands were plum tickled when they caught a whiff of the trail trifecta of…

The Spirit of the Unconquerable West
Here at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, we celebrate the “Spirit of the American West” — defined as “the spirit…

The West Is US
Here’s something worth pondering: Of the four primary points on a compass—North, South, East, West—only the last one begins with a pronoun:…