This article was originally published in a 1977 newsletter and written by Leo A. Platteter. The making of a beautifully decorated cradle was one of the most highly esteemed crafts of Plains Indian women. Because the baby usually spent the first year of its life in some type of cradle, they were lavishly made as […]
This article was originally written by Paul Fees, former Buffalo Bill Museum curator, and featured in a summer 1984 newsletter. William F. Cody, guide, age 26, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on May 22, 1872. The Medal of Honor was, and still is, the nation’s highest decoration for gallantry. Aside from the written […]
“Beautiful, Daring Western Girls,” by Sarah Wood-Clark, former assistant registrar, was originally published in a 1983 Buffalo Bill [Center of the West] newsletter. This blog is the second post of two. To read the first blog, click here. Etheyle Parry and her twin sister, Juanita, left their homes in Riverhead, Long Island, as teenagers to […]
“Beautiful, Daring Western Girls,” by Sarah Wood-Clark, former assistant registrar, was originally published in a 1983 Buffalo Bill [Center of the West] newsletter. This blog is the first post of two. Adele Parker was a flamboyant and unconventional woman. She was a talented equestrienne who enjoyed a long career as a trick rider in vaudeville, […]
This article—authored by former curator Richard Rattenbury—was originally featured in a 1981 Buffalo Bill Center of the West newsletter. Colonel Samuel Colt passed from the American scene in January, 1862, amidst the anguish of the Civil War. He left behind a highly advanced and justly famed industrial enterprise founded on his genius for arms design […]
This article was originally authored by former Curator of History Paul Fees, and was published in a 1981 Buffalo Bill [Center of the West] newsletter. When the Hon. William F. Cody took his Wild West to England in 1887 and to France in 1889, he was an immediate hit. In a short time he would […]