Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2012 Out West with Buffalo Bill: Rosa Bonheur and Oscar Wilde By Gregory Hinton There were poets like Whitman and Stevenson, writers from Alcott to Twain, composers such as Verdi and Tchaikovsky, and artists from Monet to Bierstadt. Alexander Graham Bell created his telephone, and Thomas Edison developed the […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2018 From “Thorofare” to Destination – the South Fork of the Shoshone River, part 3 Click here to read Part 1 and Part 2 By Jeremy M. Johnston, PhD As we’ve learned, the South Fork of the Shoshone River—southwest of Cody, Wyoming—was a busy place in the nineteenth century. […]
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 published in Points West magazineSpring 2011 Karl May: “I Am Hakawati.” The Storyteller, Who Was Old Shatterhand By André Kohler For Germans, Karl May (pronounced “my”) is as recognizable as William F. Cody is to Americans—and he’s had nearly as many adventures as his contemporary, too. Here, André Kohler of the Karl May Museum […]
Samantha Harper is an archivist at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s McCracken Research Library. This job means that Harper digs through documents, photography and books every day. Harper recently discovered more information about a man named Harry E. Miller. “He was a forest ranger for the Shoshone National Forest during the early years […]
Wreath-laying Ceremony for Buffalo Bill’s birthday By the Cody High School FFA February 26, 2020 11 a.m. February 26 is the 175th birthday of our namesake William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody! In honor of the event, the Cody High School FFA chapter hosts its annual wreath-laying ceremony at Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s sculpture Buffalo Bill—The Scout on […]