Coffee & Curators: Buffalo Bill Museum Center of the West members, we invite you to join us for refreshments and a curator talk focused on our Buffalo Bill Museum. Curatorial Assistant Sam Hanna leads us on a tour through the gallery highlighting favorites from the collection that are on display. We’ll then take a closer […]
Is snail mail really as slow as we think it is? Today we can communicate with pretty much anyone instantly. Our online orders can arrive as soon as the next day, and if we are patient snail mail might take a week. Maybe we want to find out exactly when mail will arrive–we can track […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Irma Hotel Chamber Pot In the days before indoor plumbing, that thirty-yard dash through the inky dark to the outhouse to relieve oneself in the middle of the night was reason enough to avoid any drinks after 6 p.m. And the cold, hard wooden seat with […]
In 1876, at the height of the Black Hills Gold Rush, a stagecoach route began between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Deadwood, South Dakota. The Buffalo Bill Museum has an Abbot Downing & Company stagecoach that supposedly rode back and forth on this route. And Curator Jeremy Johnston said the stagecoach was definitely used during Buffalo Bill’s Wild West […]
Custer’s Last Stand was reenacted thousands of times in the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. A poster shows the classic image of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors on horseback surrounding Custer’s men. But Jeremy Johnston, the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum, said it probably didn’t happen like that. “A lot of the Lakota and […]
Although the Pony Express only lasted for about a year and half, the mail service has become synonymous with the Old West. The story of riders delivering mail from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California in ten to eleven days at the time was the fastest a letter was ever delivered before electronic communication. One […]