Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2019 Cody Stampede Celebrates 100 Years Ed. Note: The authors co-curated the special exhibition Whoop It Up! Celebrating 100 Years of the Cody Stampede, on view at the Center of the West from June 7, 2019, at least through 2020. By Jeremy Johnston, PhD, and Mary Robinson For a […]
It’s well known that President Theodore Roosevelt helped shape the American West as we know it today. But the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, Jeremy Johnston, said Roosevelt, along with Buffalo Bill, also promoted the romance and myth of the American West. Roosevelt didn’t spend too much time in this area of the country, […]
For more than seventy-five years, Cody, Wyoming, is the only place in the world that puts on a rodeo every evening of the summer, June 1 – August 31. In a new book, author and journalist Lew Freedman chronicles one full season of the sport in the town known as the “Rodeo Capital of the […]