Theodore Roosevelt worked hard during his presidency to conserve the natural resources of the United States. As such, he was often traveling around… Read More
Points West Online: Wall Street Meets the Wild West
Originally published in Points West magazine Summer 2009 Wall Street Meets the Wild West With bankrupt railroads, runs on gold and silver, bank failures, and… Read More
Museum Minute: Buffalo Bill’s Winchester Carbine
There are stories, which pass through hearsay but one can never be sure if the story is completely true. The Buffalo Bill Museum at… Read More
Exhibit Explores George Custer’s Life Before His Last Stand
George Custer is most famous for the battle he did not survive: The Battle of the Little Bighorn. Popularly known as “Custer’s Last Stand,” it… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Buffalo Bill commemorative rifle
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2017 Buffalo Bill commemorative rifle As the Center of the West celebrated its Centennial throughout 2017, the… Read More
How a Museum in Rural Wyoming Reaches Beyond Its Walls: Video
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West is located in a rural place: Cody, Wyoming. But it works hard to reach beyond its four walls… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Photograph, Buffalo Bill’s family at construction site of first Buffalo Bill Museum
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2017 Photograph: Buffalo Bill’s family at construction site of first Buffalo Bill Museum Seven years after the… Read More
Center of the West’s curator of Buffalo Bill Museum and western history earns PhD
It’s safe to say that Jeremy Johnston—a former history professor at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, and now Curator of Western History and the Buffalo… Read More
Buffalo Bill Center of the West has its own piece of Amelia Earhart history
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, almost 40 at the time, disappeared on July 2, 1937, on an around-the-world flight in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra. She and navigator… Read More
Center of the West lecturer shares the connections between Buffalo Bill and the Belgian Congo
In the early 1950s, young people in Kinshasa, Belgian Congo, became infatuated with the figure of Buffalo Bill—with his feats and exploits, and with his… Read More
