Buffalo Bill’s Wild West traveled for some 30 years, both in the U.S. and in Europe. As with all such extravaganzas, marketing was a given. Aside from so-called “earned media” in the popular press, promotional posters—similar to the billboards of today—advertised all that audiences would see within the show’s arena. Fortunately, the Buffalo Bill Center […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West is thrilled to announce free field trips for Park County students during the 2014 – 2015 school year. Very generous private donors—the Stephen M. Seay Foundation and two anonymous donors—have made it possible for the Center’s Interpretive Education Department to invite Park County, Wyoming, students and teachers to […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2011 Buffalo Bill Goes to the Big CityPart One By William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, 1916 Introduction by Dr. John Rumm, former Ernest J. Goppert Curator of Western American History Beginning with The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide, published in […]
Originally featured in Points West in Summer 2010 Oil painting, Col. William F. Cody by Rosa Bonheur, 1889 Europeans were completely enamored of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West show. When it traveled to Paris in 1889, French painter Rosa Bonheur visited the grounds of the show to sketch the exotic American animals and the Indian […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2004 Weaving a Cinematic Web: Hidalgo and the Search for Frank Hopkins By Juti A. Winchester, PhDFormer Curator, Buffalo Bill Museum People frequently ask me what a curator’s job entails. At the Buffalo Bill Museum, I oversee and develop the Cody-related collections, I perform research for exhibits and publication, and I […]
“I was born here, in this place that would come to be called the Old West. But, to my kind, the land was ageless. It had no beginning and no end, no boundary between earth and sky. Like the wind and the buffalo, we belonged here, we would always belong here…Whether that west was won […]