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American cowboy

Buffalo Bill's Wild West poster highlighting cowboys, ca. 1896. Courier Litho. Co. 1.69.425

Museum Minute: The American Cowboy

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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, […]

Lew Freedman's "Cody Rodeo"

New book shares insights into a season of rodeo in Cody; author to speak at Buffalo Bill Center of the West

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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 […]