Buffalo Bill-The Scout

Buffalo Bill’s spurs torched—on purpose.

May 27, 2015 by Marguerite House

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875 – 1942). Buffalo Bill – The Scout, 1924. Bronze. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA. Gift of the artist. 3.58 Sometime around 1959, Cody, Wyoming’s, iconic statue sustained a mishap due to vandals. Evidently, some nefarious ne’er-do-wells nabbed the spurs off Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s (1875 – 1942) monumental sculpture […]

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney poses with Buffalo Bill—The Scout, her 1924 sculpture of William F. Cody. MS6 William F. Cody Collection. P.69.517

Points West Online: Cody’s Fairy Godmother: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her memorial sculpture, Buffalo Bill—The Scout

March 10, 2015 by Nancy McClure

Originally published in Points West in Winter 2009. By Christine C. Brindza Controversy is difficult to avoid in most large undertakings, and the creation of a Buffalo Bill memorial was no exception. When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney accepted the commission to create a monumental tribute to Buffalo Bill, she prepared herself to take on the complicated […]