Meet the Staff
Meet the Curators
Paul Hutton, PhD
Interim Curator, Buffalo Bill Museum
Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural and military historian, an award-winning author, documentary writer, and television personality. He is also Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, a former executive director of the Western History Association, and a past president of Western Writers of America. He earned his BA, MA, and PhD from Indiana University.
Hutton is a six-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award and a six-time winner of the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
Sam Hanna
Curatorial Assistant, Buffalo Bill Museum
Sam Hanna is the Curatorial Assistant of the Buffalo Bill Museum. In addition to that role, to which he was appointed in October 2019, Sam continues to head up research for The Papers of William F. Cody.
Jeremy Johnston
March 28, 1971 – June 15, 2024, Former Curator
Jeremy M. Johnston was the Hal and Naoma Tate Endowed Chair of Western History, the Ernest J. Goppert Curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, and the Managing Editor of The Papers of William F. Cody. He was a cherished member of the Center of the West staff for more than 15 years, until his untimely passing in June 2024.
Johnston attended the University of Wyoming, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and his Master of Arts in 1995. Johnston earned his PhD in American Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2017. His doctoral dissertation examined the personal and professional relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, soon to be published by University of Oklahoma Press. He is greatly missed at the Center of the West.