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Bighorn Basin

The still vast, virtually intact sagebrush-steppe ecosystem of Wyoming's Bighorn Basin remains a stronghold for the golden eagle and the Spirit of the American West. Photo by C.R. Preston.

Points West Online: Golden Eagles, Sagebrush Country, and the Spirit of the American West

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Originally published in Points West magazineFall 2011 Report from the Field: Golden Eagles, Sagebrush Country, and the Spirit of the American West By Dr. Charles R. Preston “Wait till you hear what we saw today,” shouted an excited Patrick Rodgers from across the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s employee parking lot as I was […]

Left to right: Max Wilde, D.W. DeFoe, J. L. Wheeler, Ty Cobb, Tom Yawkey. Max Wilde was the guide, DeFoe and Wheeler were clients, Cobb was also a client but a baseball superstar and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Tom Yawkey was owner of the Boston Red Sox. MS 6 William F. Cody Collection, McCracken Research Library. P.69.609 (detail)

Museum Minute: The Cody Red Sox

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Did you ever think that Cody had a connection with the Boston Red Sox? Well, it turns out there is a connection.  Eric Rossborough, the associate librarian at the McCracken Research Library and is from Boston himself, was pleasantly surprised to find out that Cody and the Bighorn Basin has some connection with the Boston […]

One parent and young nestling survey Rattlesnake Gulch, while a second nestling rests behind the parent. Moosejaw Bravo Photography.

Points West Online: The Eagles of Rattlesnake Gulch

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Originally published in Points West magazine Fall/Winter 2017 Dispatches from the Field: The Eagles of Rattlesnake Gulch By Charles R. Preston, PhD In 2008, Dr. Charles R. Preston, Willis McDonald IV Senior Curator of the Draper Natural History Museum, began a study of golden eagles in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Since 2012, he’s shared […]

Golden eagle. Photo by C.R. Preston.

Free Lunchtime Expedition lecture looks at the “big picture” in golden eagle conservation

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Golden eagles are a key species and a powerful predator in the sagebrush-steppe ecosystem of Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin. At the June Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition, speaker Brian Woodbridge reminds us that golden eagles are found far and wide in the West in diverse habitats—some very different from the Basin. “Golden eagles occupy a […]

Gretchen Hurley is the speaker at a free talk April 5.

Free lunchtime lecture explores the importance of sandstone cliffs as golden eagle habitat

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“Golden eagle nests are typically clustered along prominent cliff faces adjacent to large, open foraging areas,” says Geologist Gretchen Hurley, the speaker at the next Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition. The free lecture, titled From Ancient Rivers to Silent Cliffs: The Geomorphology of Golden Eagle Nesting and Hunting Habitats in the Bighorn Basin, takes […]

The "Flamboyant Fraternity": left to right, Elisha P. Green, James Butler Hickok, William F. Cody, John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, and Eugene Overton, 1873. R.H. Furman photograph. Museum Purchase, Garlow Collection. P.6.908

Centennial History Contest winners

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In celebration of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s centennial year, the Center hosted a Centennial History Contest. The  contest theme was Taking a Stand in History in the American West and students could compete in three categories: paper (essay), website, or documentary. We targeted the contest to high school students in the Big […]