The McCracken Research Library is a local history library not only a library specializing in all things Buffalo Bill. And the Cody area is not lacking interesting stories of the West. East of Cody near Kaycee, Wyoming, was the hideout of the Hole in the Wall Gang, which was prominent during the early 20th century. […]
“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 […]
Long before TV shows CSI or Law & Order, or real agencies like the FBI, NSA, or CIA, there was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA). Founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton, their motto was “We never sleep.” Pinkerton lived outside Chicago in Dundee, a small town that needed a “cooper” or barrel-maker. He was […]