Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Winchester Herald covers with baseball bat and mitt A Winchester bat? A Winchester mitt? With baseball… Read More
Treasures from Our West
Here in "Treasures from Our West," written by our curatorial staff for our "Points West" magazine, we share some of the extraordinary objects that make the Buffalo Bill Center of the West the premier destination—online or in person—to experience the American West. Works of western art, cultural and artistic objects from the Plains Indians, natural science specimens, amazing firearms, beautiful photographs, and artifacts exploring the history and myth of the Wild West—let us show you some of these "Treasures from Our West."
Treasures from Our West: Winchester Calendar, 1894
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Winchester Calendar, 1894 In 1887, Union Metallic Cartridge Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, introduced an advertising calendar… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Wild Bill Hickok Revolver
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Wild Bill Hickok’s Revolver James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok’s (1837–1874) pair of ivory-handled revolvers were as… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Native Feather Bustle
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2019 Native Feather Bustle There’s no shortage of bustles at the Center of the West’s Plains Indian… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Photograph: Making a garden in North Platte, Nebraska, 1909
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Photograph: Making a garden in North Platte, Nebraska, 1909 For these folks, spring undoubtedly meant consulting… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Irma Hotel Chamber Pot
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Irma Hotel Chamber Pot In the days before indoor plumbing, that thirty-yard dash through the inky… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Albert Bierstadt’s “White Horse and Sunset”
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Albert Bierstadt’s White Horse and Sunset Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Herb Parsons’s Winchester Model 1871
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Herb Parsons’s Winchester Model 1871 To make movie magic, all it takes is a wizard. In… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Thomas Moran’s “Zoroaster Peak”
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2018 Thomas Moran’s “Zoroaster Peak” The trajectory of Thomas Moran’s career would change dramatically in 1871. That… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Golden Eagle Eggs
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2018 Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Eggs Golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming find… Read More