Coffee & Curators: Cody Firearms Museum Center of the West members, we invite you to join us for refreshments and a curator talk focused on our Cody Firearms Museum. Our Coffee & Curators series invites members to enjoy coffee, refreshments, and each other as one of our curators speaks about a topic inspired by the […]
Note: This event is postponed. It will be rescheduled when possible. April 3 5–7 p.m. Join the Buffalo Bill Center of the West for a FREE event! Enjoy appetizers, a cash bar, live music, and an activity. The April event features our Cody Firearms Museum, Single Track Spirits, and the music of Lacy Nelson, who […]
In the early 1900s, a new concealable pistol was created. The Palm Protector Pistol was a double action revolver, but Danny Michael, the assistant curator of the Cody Firearms Museum, said it didn’t really look like a conventional revolver. “The internals of the gun kind of looks like the spokes of a wagon wheel and […]
During World War I, while John Browning was working on a heavy machine gun that would use a .50 caliber cartridge, Cody Firearms Museum Assistant Curator Danny Michael said Winchester got the Army contract to create that cartridge. “So as they were developing this, they obviously needed a gun to use as a testbed to […]
Centuries in the Making – The Modern Shooting Sports By Ashley Hlebinsky January 9, 2020 5:30–7:30 p.m. at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Cody Culture Club: if you love Cody, you’re part of the Club! Join us one Thursday a month, January – April. Heavy hors d’ouevres and cash bar at every program. Since […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Spring 2019 Herb Parsons’s Winchester Model 1871 To make movie magic, all it takes is a wizard. In the 1950 Universal International film Winchester ’73, all they needed was the “Wizard with a Winchester” known as Herb—Herb Parsons, that is. Parsons served as technical advisor on the set […]