Coffee & Curators: Buffalo Bill Museum June 5, 10–11:30 a.m. Free for members! Coffee & Curators invites members to enjoy coffee, refreshments, and each other as a curator speaks about a topic inspired by the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s permanent collections, including special up-close or behind-the-scenes access. We may be venturing out more […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2012 Encounter a Great American Icon Again… For the Very First Time – Man of the West, Man of the World, Man of Will A New Buffalo Bill Museum Opens Exhibit photography by Chris Gimmeson Many know Buffalo Bill, the icon whose Wild West show brought the West to […]
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 […]