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Stories of the West

Museum Minute: The Winchester Archive at the McCracken Research Library

Aug 18, 2025

Olivia Weitz

Page from the 1878 Chinese catalogue, Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,...

Cast photo, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Great Far East shows, 1912. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.0016

Yankee-Mania: The Wild West Invades London

Aug 18, 2025

Jane Gilvary

Buffalo Bill's Wild West show cast and personnel, Earl's Court,...

A Broadway Guy: the Second Life of Bat Masterson

Aug 13, 2025

Eric Rossborough

When Bat Masterson and his brother Ed heard of a...

The 1994 oil painting, “A Flight from Destiny,” by Bill Schenck, shows a fleeing cowboy wielding a horse pistol as he checks behind for pursuers. Oil on canvas. Gift of The Alexander Bodini Foundation, in memory of Alexander Bodini. 1.95

Flight from Destiny: Western Grit in Color

Aug 12, 2025

Jane Gilvary

Fusion of Styles For a clear example of photo-realism fused...

The Spiritual and Cultural Legacy of Horses in Native American History

Aug 11, 2025

Emma Brence

Horses have held a cherished and iconic place in American...

Museum Minute: Wyoming’s Early Printed Books and the Shoshone Vocabulary, 1868

Aug 11, 2025

Olivia Weitz

The McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of...

Henry Howard Bagg (1852-1928). Buffalo Bill's TE Ranch, ca. 1910. Southwest of Cody, Wyoming, along the South Fork of the Shoshone River. Museum purchase, Garlow Collection. 150.69

The TE Ranch in American Memory

Aug 06, 2025

Jane Gilvary

A Window into the West Just outside the Coe Auditorium...

An Ordinary Man, an Extraordinary Legacy: Audie Murphy and the Colt Bisley

Jul 29, 2025

Jane Gilvary

I may be branded by war, but I will not...

Buffalo Brief: Prepping Wildlife Skeletons for Display

Jul 23, 2025

Olivia Weitz

Editor’s Note: This story includes descriptions and images of preparing...

Scout, Warrior, Witness: The Legacy of White Man Runs Him

Jul 22, 2025

Jane Gilvary

Governor Frank Emerson shaking hands with White Man Runs Him...

Museum Minute: An Unusually Shaped Water Vessel at the Plains Indian Museum

Jul 11, 2025

Olivia Weitz

At the Plains Indian Museum, most of the water vessels...

Belted Kingfisher: A Water Dependent Bird

Jul 09, 2025

Anne Hay

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